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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.
I really enjoyed Firefly and was very disapointed when it was cancelled. The idea of seeing the three unaired episodes really makes me happy. For those of you who don't know much about Firefly, its basic premise revolved around a trader/smuggler who once fought a secessionist war against Earth (heavily referencing the American Civil War). In describing it, the creator Joss Weadon said, "The idea that they may have invented cool lasers but not everybody can afford them is sort of the premise on which we work. Lasers take you to a science-fiction place that I feel has been covered too much." Firefly was the type of ship he flew. The first episode aired was terrible, but the show continued to get better and better. There were lots of subplots and so forth. One of the things I really appreciated from the show was they never showed sound in space, which was done very artfully and really added an eerie feel to the show. Over all it was very well done.
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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.
I really enjoyed Firefly and was very disapointed when it was cancelled. The idea of seeing the three unaired episodes really makes me happy. For those of you who don't know much about Firefly, its basic premise revolved around a trader/smuggler who once fought a secessionist war against Earth (heavily referencing the American Civil War). In describing it, the creator Joss Weadon said, "The idea that they may have invented cool lasers but not everybody can afford them is sort of the premise on which we work. Lasers take you to a science-fiction place that I feel has been covered too much." Firefly was the type of ship he flew. The first episode aired was terrible, but the show continued to get better and better. There were lots of subplots and so forth. One of the things I really appreciated from the show was they never showed sound in space, which was done very artfully and really added an eerie feel to the show. Over all it was very well done.