I think it's more like your imagination/paranoia. The US and all the other countries in the world do roughly the same shit.

Rules are just shit people said one time, they aren't decrees of justice. Just like all nations have idiotic laws that maybe once made sense but don't anymore, rules are all dynamic, laws are all dynamic. You adjust them to get the outcomes you want, not because they are divine rule.

So the real question is what's the actual global and national consensus vs what does WTO think. WTO doesn't represent a global democracy so we can't just assume they represent all that much.

Rules need to be consensus based, not tradition based, so you really need to know the consensus domestically and globally on the issue not just whine about rules being broken sometimes and not others.