Respect yourself!

I wonder why countries even bother to enter into trade agreement with the U.S. After years, sometimes decades, of negotiation, everybody agree on the terms of the treaty and the mechanisms to resolve disputes. As soon as the ink dries, the U.S. government dismiss any and all things that they do not like. Case in point is the softwood dispute between the U.S. and Canada. NAFTA, the agreement that governs trades between the countries, has ruled three times that the U.S. is wrong in imposing punishing duties on Canadian softwood imports. U.S. acts as if nothing has happened. This is not only an act of disrespecting others (for which the U.S. is world famous) but disrespecting itself. By not respecting an agreement it signed is to disrespect all the signers of the agreement, which include the U.S. How can anyone do business with someone who does not respect itself?