[hedgetrimmer]

How is it Constitutional that the WTO is granting "rights"?
Enquiring minds want to know.

[Cronos]

The US could impose sanctions on it's own, so could any other bloc/nation. This would return the world to the closed economies before GATT. The WTO exists to prevent that, to give nations an impartial arbitrator who can say: it's fair or not. If the WTO rules in favour of a country, it's just giving legal weight to that country to impose sanctions, nothing more.