The U.S. lost on cotton subsidies against Brazil at the WTO.   I'm an agnostic on the policy wisdom of cotton subsidies. 

Can anyone tell me when the U.S. won a WTO ruling?  The European hormone beef case perhaps.  But what other case(s)? 

The US Trade Representative says we win a lot.  But the Adminstration calls a lot of things a "win," when it is not a win.

Industry publication Manufacturing News says that we have lost 40 of 47 cases, and are the world's biggest WTO loser.

The World Trade Organization has ruled against the United States in 40 of 47 cases... That number is "astounding," according to Robert Lighthizer, a partner in charge the international trade group at the law firm of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. The United States "has suffered disproportionately from the problems with the WTO dispute settlement system, having been named as a defendant in far more cases than any other WTO members."

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