6.7 WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism

The DSU's system (the WTO's crown): the compulsory jurisdiction (the panel's automaticity — the negative-consensus revolution); the stages: the consultations → the panel (the facts-and- law's findings) → the Appellate Body (the law's review — the precedent's weight) → the DSB's adoption → the implementation (the compliance's monitoring) → the retaliation's authorisation (the suspension-of-concessions — the cross-retaliation's faces). The record: the hundreds of disputes (the US-EU-and-the-others' cases; the developing-countries' use — the Brazil's-and-India's victories); the crisis: the Appellate Body's paralysis (the US's block — the 2019-era vacancy freeze; the MPIA's stopgap); the reform's negotiations (the S7's stake). The Nepal faces: the disputes' non-engagement (the capacity's-and-stakes' reality); the TPRM's participation; the accession-commitments' implementation.