The WTO's influence on environmental laws is despicable, placing more importance on shrimp cocktails than the extinction of a species. Forget reforming the WTO, let's just abolish it. The US Turtle Shrimp law requires all nations who wish to export shrimp to the US to have national laws in place requiring the use of TEDs or other comparable means of protection. In response to an adverse ruling from the World Trade Organization, the State Department weakened the guidelines of the law to allow the export of shrimp from nations that do not have national laws in place if individual vessels claim they are using TEDs.
Turtles are highly migratory and therefore require protection in all phases of their life cycle.
As seen by the export of shrimp from yet another country that does not have a national TED law in place, either the State Department does not understand basic biology or it just doesn't care whether turtles die.