>>I don’t think Bush has a record of giving a flying rat’s axx about what the world court or the UN or anyone who isn’t the US religious extreme right has to say about anything.<<< I am not so sure Read this part from Article US could come in big truble if they dont follow WTO Early next year, when the Dispute Resolution Body finally finishes with each side’s arguments, Antigua will undoubtedly win its claim that the US is still noncompliant with the prior WTO rulings in the case, but the question of how to compensate Antigua for its economic losses remains. What kind of leverage does a small country like Antigua and Barbuda have against the last superpower? Under one provision of the WTO, a party is allowed to suspend its obligations (“concessions,” in WTO-speak) to another signatory if sanctions alone prove insufficient, and Antiguan authorities are already talking of following the example of Ecuador, which threatened to start selling black-market copies of EU merchandise, if the EU refused to comply with the original panel ruling on banana tariffs. Indeed, the EU and Japan have filed briefs supporting the Antiguan position. That darling of the American political class, enormous American based intellectual property rights holders, such as Microsoft or Universal Studios, will be sore if the United States cannot come to some kind of resolution in its dispute with little Antigua and Barbuda. Furthermore, the fact that the primary proponent of the GATS round of trade talks would prove so stubborn when faced with an adversary ruling would seem to indicate that a rough road lies ahead for a more general worldwide liberalization of trade in services.