Yes.
When the appellate body was created, it was never intended to be automatic. There's no requirement that every dispute actually go to an appeal. The reason it was created is that sometimes panels don't necessarily get it right. The appellate body was created to provide an overarching review process.
In an ideal world, an issue or an irritant with a country would not even need to go to the WTO dispute settlement mechanism. When we have irritants with countries, such as issues like canola with China or pulses with India, we do try for some time through advocacy, discussion and dialogue to avoid getting to the point of a WTO dispute. In part, that is because WTO disputes do take time. They are very resource intensive as well. We have sometimes had good success in avoiding having to go to a formal WTO dispute.
That is another tool in our tool kit that can be very successful in resolving problems more quickly.