They're doing business with China, though the two countries still have economic and trade disputes.
As these two countries pull away from each other, trade disputes will inevitably grow.
WTO, without which trade disputes might be settled by clout and not the law.
The US complaint is the latest in a series of trade disputes between the two countries.
But quite apart from looming trade disputes with America, labelling is neither an easy nor a cheap fix.
But the number of new trade disputes is ratcheting up to a level that is beginning to look worrying.
To be sure, the World Trade Organisation has enabled some poor countries to win trade disputes against rich ones.
Officials say it is natural for trade disputes to increase as trade does.
But election-year politics and America's legalistic approach to trade disputes may prevent this.
Apparently he cannot abide the cautious peace stitched together this month by America and Europe on their big trade disputes.
Of the dozen-odd trade disputes between Washington and Brussels, all but one are European complaints at American behaviour, notably over steel.
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WTO's credibility as global trade policeman was already looking shaky after a series of bruising trade disputes between Europe and America.
In a reversal of priorities, the two countries are giving more attention to their security relationship and are playing down trade disputes.
The region's two biggest powers, Brazil and Argentina, are currently locked in trade disputes, while Bolivia and Chile have no diplomatic relations at all.
Given Beijing's vast resources, cost is a negligible issue, even though the billable hours can rack up as trade disputes drag on for years.
The reason why I will not is that it would be directly inimical to our joint efforts to lower the temperature on transatlantic trade disputes.
This contrasts directly with the US position, opening up the possibility of trade disputes similar to the lengthy and costly row between the EU and US over genetically modified foods.
To begin with, the U.S. is a longtime member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a 140-member group that tries to promote international trade, reduces trade barriers, and handles trade disputes between member countries.
He argues that China's inclusion in the WTO, and hence permanent normal trade relations with the U.S., is good for both sides because trade disputes can be resolved through an impartial dispute settlement mechanism.
How should international trade disputes be settled?
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Trade disputes are becoming more prickly too.
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Nine unions - including Unison, Unite, the Fire Brigades' Union, Prospect and the GMB - announced at the TUC's annual conference last week that they were preparing to ballot for industrial action or to register "trade disputes" with the government.
Though his thuggish networking often nettled those who worked with him in Brussels, where he was feared and disliked by many a Eurocrat, Mr Lamy's ease in both the American and European political cultures could prove an asset, though not a clinching one, in trade disputes.
It has to become more open and transparent. (At Mexico's insistence, its press officers have been gagged since May 1st.) It is increasingly asked to adjudicate on sensitive issues such as food safety and environmental protection that have become the stuff of trade disputes in a globalising economy.
Even the more modest goal of a free-trade area, if it is to be a credible one, means that they can no longer shirk agreement on a few common laws (on matters such as competition policy) and some minimal common institutions, including a permanent tribunal to settle trade disputes.
In fact, U.S. policies have been the subject of more World Trade Organization disputes (119) than have any other countries policies. (The EU is second with 73 and China is third with 30).
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I'm the director of Cato's Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, focusing on WTO disputes, regional trade agreements, U.S.-China trade issues, steel and textile trade policies, and antidumping reform.
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