Environmentalists who want theWTO to keep its hands off U.S. laws that protect endangered species would happily force Venezuela--against its sovereign will--to clean up its gasoline exports.
Russia has been negotiating its accession into theWTO since 1993 but various issues including enforcement of copyright laws and meat exports have halted the country's acceptance in the past.
Under theWTO Antidumping Agreement (ADA), governments are permitted to have antidumping laws and to apply antidumping duties to redress dumping that is found to be a cause of material injury to the domestic industry producing the same or similar products.