On the last decades, the international community has been keen to create an international legal system that works to achieve the highest levels of commercial freedom between countries, and to create a legal entity entrusted with addressing all obstacles that prevent this goal from being achieved, including conflicts and commercial disputes between countries. From this point of view and for the aforementioned and other reasons, the World Trade Organization was established, and a special body entrusted with resolving international commercial disputes, examining all violations issued by its members and following up the implementation procedures for decisions and recommendations issued by them, and finally granting the necessary permits to the affected countries to take temporary measures It ensures that the violating state is compelled to implement the decisions and recommendations of the agency, which are known as countermeasures. The actual question lies in the extent of the effectiveness of these The refresher: Balqees bint Khalaf Al-busaidi The academic D. Saleh bin Hamed Al-brashdi supervisor: Major: Commercial law The effectiveness of countermeasures at the World Trade Organization Tittle: countermeasures in creating a state of fear for the affected state and making it comply with the decisions and recommendations issued against it. Does the practical reality reflect the strength of the actors of these measures or not ?