Presume you are a government lawyer of country A, asked to answer the following questions in a conference with senior business leaders concerned about instability in the international trading system.

Why do certain members have concerns over dispute settlement at the WTO? Why is the WTO facing a crisis of the dispute settlement? What do you think is the possible future of state-to-state dispute settlement in trade (e.g., third-party adjudication under the WTO or elsewhere, unilateral retaliation, and/or something else)?