http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/nesson/2007/12/21/wto-backs-antigua-for-21-million-annual-in-sanctions-against-usa/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/nesson/2007/12/21/wto-backs-antigua-for-21-million-annual-in-sanctions-against-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 Sagnik Sinha Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:58:48 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/nesson/2007/12/21/wto-backs-antigua-for-21-million-annua#comment-1210 The mode of implementation of the Arbitration award is really hazy. A large developed country such as India, Brazil or China could have made good use of a sanction of this kind but one is really forced to ask what can Antigua In the absence of a possibility of it becoming a base for export of pirated goods, courtesy strict rules of the WTO which remains applicable for other states Antiguan manufacturers can only sell them in the domestic market. The small size of the domestic market may ensure that for all practical purposes Antigua wasted five precious years fighting the USA which will probably get away with whatever it did. The question is for how longer? The only good thing is it builds up on a precedent set after the Equador case. The mode of implementation of the Arbitration award is really hazy. A large developed country such as India, Brazil or China could have made good use of a sanction of this kind but one is really forced to ask what can Antigua In the absence of a possibility of it becoming a base for export of pirated goods, courtesy strict rules of the WTO which remains applicable for other states Antiguan manufacturers can only sell them in the domestic market. The small size of the domestic market may ensure that for all practical purposes Antigua wasted five precious years fighting the USA which will probably get away with whatever it did. The question is for how longer?
The only good thing is it builds up on a precedent set after the Equador case.

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