You make a great point. This is, I think, a kind of negotiating tactic. But this is generally not how trade negos work - I think that this is the Trump Admin'

You make a great point. This is, I think, a kind of negotiating tactic. But this is generally not how trade negos work - I think that this is the Trump Admin's version of hardball. US gov is big and diverse, and once it's appealed, the body making the ruling may not be part of Trump's apparatus directly and may have something more level-headed to say about all this.