The U.S. needs coalitions to have its agenda succeed. Nowhere to be seen. Instead, there was a sense of U.S. unilateralism, a sense that the U.S. could and would ram agendas down people's throats. A second aspect of arrogance was the U.S. refusal to give anything up. Many developing countries are deeply concerned about U.S. antidumping practices, arguing that the U.S. is reintroducing protectionism.
Many economists agree.
But the U.S. team was adamant that they would not give in. Indeed, it was adamant that there would be no giving in on any issue. This failure, some argue, is the real problem. A third aspect of U.S. arrogance was the sense that the domestic agenda and style is the right style for the rest of the world. Developing countries, of course, are highly resistant to introducing labor and environmental issues into the WTO under this kind of leadership.