GD/180

India - Import Restrictions on Almonds

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Parties

Complainant
United States
Respondent
India
Third Parties

Products at Issue

Products at issue
Almonds
Type of product
Agricultural
Product sub-type
Fruits and dried fruits

Related disputes

GATT
Related GD
GD/181
WTO

Key legal aspects

Legal basis
  • GATT Article XXIII:1
  • LIC Article 4:2
Claims raised
  • GATT Article XI
Defences raised
  • 1979 Declaration on Trade Measures Taken for Balance-of-Payments Purposes (BISD 26S/205) para. 3
  • GATT Article XVIII section B (BoP)

Adjudicators

Type Panel
Chairperson See Chak Mun (Singapore)
Other members Sandor Simon (Hungary), Darry Salim (Indonesia), Johannes N. Feij (Netherlands), Christer Manhusen (Sweden)

Report

Type Panel
Legal basis at issue
  • GATT Article XXIII:1
  • LIC Article 4:2
Claims at issue
Defences at issue
No of Pages (total / legal reasoning)
  • -
  • -

Timeline

Request for consultations
Request for establishment
Establishment
Composition
Mutually agreed solution
Request withdrawn

Outcome

Outcome of the proceedings
Consultations held, mutually agreed solution, request withdrawn
Additional Info C/M/213 (26/10/1987) Minutes of Council Meeting (07/10/1987) India: "did not see any justification for the establishment of a panel (…) willingness to engage in further bilateral consultations (…)"C/M/218 (19/04/1988) Minutes of Council Meeting (22/03/1988) US: "India agreed to the standard terms of reference for the Panel established in November 1987 to examine the US complaint."

C/156 (07/06/1988) Report of the Director-General on the Status of Work in Panels and Implementation of Panel Reports (15/06/1988) "The Panel began its work in May 1988. It was informed in June 1988 that the parties had settled the matter and that the United States withdrew its complaint in C/154/Add.1 [which referred to the letter received by the Panel Chairman from the US on 03/06/1988, with the same content as LIC/15 which ended the dispute under document LIC - LIC/W/37])."