Editing World Trade Organization (section)

==Decision-making==
The WTO describes itself as "a rules-based, member-driven organization—all decisions are made by the member governments, and the rules are the outcome of negotiations among members".<ref>[http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/thewto_e.htm#decision_making Decision-making] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111111084450/http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/thewto_e.htm#decision_making |date=11 November 2011 }} at WTO official site</ref> The WTO Agreement foresees votes where consensus cannot be reached, but the practice of consensus dominates the process of decision-making.<ref>[http://jiel.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/1/51.short Decision-Making in the World Trade Organization] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825050917/http://jiel.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/1/51.short |date=25 August 2011 }} Abstract from ''Journal of International Economic Law'' at Oxford Journals</ref>

[[Richard Harold Steinberg]] (2002) argues that although the WTO's consensus governance model provides law-based initial bargaining, trading rounds close through power-based bargaining favoring Europe and the U.S., and may not lead to [[Pareto efficiency|Pareto improvement]].<ref>Steinberg, Richard H. "In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-based Bargaining and Outcomes in the GATT/WTO." ''International Organization.'' Spring 2002. pp. 339–374.</ref>