Re:And you are surprised because ... ? (Score 1)

As always, Slashdot is the source of reasonable and moderate debate.... WTO rulings are regularly ignored by countries who have been ruled against. Yes, even the venerable and righteous EU has ignored WTO rulings against it in the past (shock, gasp, no, only the evil United States who I hate would ever do anything so brazen). As a recent example, the WTO ruled that limiting American beef imports into the EU was an unfair trade practice. The EU conveniently ignored it and continued to ban or limit certain types of beef. Strangely there was very little "the EU is evil" talk. As in all cases when a country decides to ignore a WTO ruling, the offended party is always free to begin retaliatory sanctions on imports from that country. This often happens, and may happen in this case. Of course countries ignore international organizations sometimes; they have very limited ways to enforce anything they do. International Law is in many ways still in it's infancy. If you think the United States is the only country to ignore a WTO ruling, then you haven't been paying attention. It happens far more often then you think, and usually nobody cares or raises a fuss. Glad Slashdot is here to swoop to the rescue.