Mostly punitive, the way I understand it. The US government basically thumbed its nose at the trade agreements and treaties it signed, and gave all manner of lame excuses why it didn't abide by the agreements it made. There was, at one point, a perfectly straight-faced claim made by Gonzales' "Justice" Department that the US could retroactively change the terms of those treaties just by saying so. This was the only thing the WTO, on behalf of Antigua, could do that would hurt enough to get someone in the government to actually live up to the terms of those agreements.
-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....
-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....