Limited observance of multilateral trade agreements

Name(s): 
Trade quota cheating
Failure of political will to observe trade commitments
Nature 
The credibility of the rules and principles of the trading system has been weakened by the fact that the ultimate recourse open to a country affected by illegal trade measures is to withdraw "substantially equivalent concessions", a possibility of little effective use to weaker trading partners.
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems