The Study On The Arbitration Within The WTO

The legal crisis of the WTO began when great gap came up between the various kings of subject and the specialized Dispute Settlement Mechanism. The Panel and Appellate Body have to fill the gap with judicial activism. Thus come up the crisis of WTO itself. The arbitration within the WTO was been neglected by us, but it was the very solution of the crisis.The arbitration within the WTO takes an important part in the DSM of the WTO. It is the integrated system which serves the general arbitration as the chief clause, the special arbitration as the assistant clause and the subsidiary arbitration under the covered agreements out of DSU as the subsidiary. The general arbitration which defined by Article 25 of DSU is an arbitration mechanism that Members may have recourse to whenever necessary within the WTO framework, is an alternative to a panel procedure. The general arbitration is based on the parties' mutual agreement. The present article clarifies with emphasis on the procedure legal issue of the general arbitration, include of the jurisdiction of the arbitrators, the application of the procedure law and the substance law, the rules of procedure and proof. The Special arbitration within the WTO is a sort of proper arbitration system in the WTO. The legal resources of the special arbitration rest with the Article 21.3, the Article 22.6 and the Article 22.7 of DSU. The special arbitration is a compulsion arbitration, when the recommendations and the rulings of the DSB or the general arbitration is to be implemented, which is in start-up and used to deal with the three kinds of given issues in the implementation process. The procedure rules which were developed in the special arbitration are in great degree to be used for reference in the general arbitration.The general arbitration can eliminate the generativity induced by the judicial activism of the Panel and Appellate Body, also lessen the insularity, so that it will solve the problem of the crisis of WTO which is the WTO system is generativity and also insularity. Finally it will contribute to the Dispute Settlement Mechanism of arbitration-oriented.