Trade Sanctions and Other Barriers to Free Trade

few months earlier, WTO had approved similar US sanctions on EU exports in retaliation fordiscrimination against 1 atin American banana exports controlled by US distributors. WTO is a body set up to promote free trade. It, therefore, sounds strange to hear of WTO-approved trade sanctions. Since free trade is supposed to be beneficial to all the trading partners, not only discriminating trade barriers are harmful, but also retaliatory sanctions. After all, one wrona cannot undo another. In fact, retaliatory trade sanctions as well as coercive trade sanctions can have un-