Novel on Notification Hats off to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for developing a novel approach to remedying what is otherwise a problem of unaccountability in the WTO – notification. The Trump administration singled out agriculture, fisheries subsidies and technical barriers as areas where WTO members fail to make required information submissions in a timely manner. A WTO Agriculture Committee report documents that one-third of the WTO’s members have yet to notify their 2013 domestic support measures. USTR proposes that countries falling behind in their transparency obligations face an escalating list of sanctions from loss of leadership positions in the organization to ultimately an “inactive” designation...