Increasingly WTO dispute settlement decisions are having a profound impact on U.S. policy on issues ranging from tax policy to environmental policy. On the one hand, the United States has won some important WTO dispute settlement panels on issues, such as Europe's ban on hormone treated meat. On the other hand, it has also lost decisions on U.S. tax and trade law; to comply with one of these adverse decisions the United States recently undertook a major change in U.S. tax policy, but Europe is threatening another challenge of the new tax law.

Has the WTO demonstrated the ability to competently and fairly decide international trade disputes or does it pose a threat to critical U.S. laws? Come join us for a start of the millennium (the real millennium) discussion of these interesting and sometimes provocative issues.