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Dispute Settelment

WTO gives OK for Brazil sanctions against the U.S.

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The World Trade Organisation gave Brazil the green light on Monday to impose $295m (€206m, £181m) of sanctions on US goods over Washington’s failure to scrap illegal subsidies to its cotton farmers.

However, the trade retaliation granted by a WTO arbitrator was barely a tenth of the $2.7bn Brazil had asked for. Brazil will also not be able to carry out its threat to break US drug patents or retaliate in services unless subsidies rise substantially from 2006 levels.

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World Trade Organization: Hyperlinked Map of Disputes Between Members

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(Jun. 11, 2009 Global Legal Monitor) The World Trade Organization has recently posted on its website an interactive map that depicts disputes between its member states. The top of the webpage shows a list of highlight-able choices among types of member-state involvement in disputes: as complainant, respondent, or either. The accompanying map shows member-state areas of the world in a color range of whitish pink to red, to indicate the range in the number of disputes (0-100), and non-member-state areas in gray; the United States is bright red.