GATT Disputes

GD/306

United States - Standards for Reformulated and Conventional Gasoline

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Parties

Complainant	Venezuela
Respondent	United States
Third Parties

Products at Issue

Products at issue	Gasoline
Type of product	Non-agricultural
Product sub-type	Pharmaceutical and chemical products

Related disputes

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WTO	Related WTO Dispute WT/DS2

Key legal aspects

Legal basis	GATT Article XXII:1
Claims raised	GATT Article I GATT Article III GATT Article VIII GATT Article XI
Defences raised	n.a.

Adjudicators

Type	Panel
Chairperson	Joseph W. P. Wong (Hong Kong)
Other members	Kim Luotonen (Finland), Crawford Falconer (New Zealand)

Report

Type	Panel
Legal basis at issue	GATT Article XXII:1
Claims at issue
Defences at issue	n.a.

No of Pages (total / legal reasoning)
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Timeline

Request for consultations	DS47/1 (17/01/1994)
Request for establishment	DS47/3 (22/09/1994)
Establishment	C/M/275 (04/10/1994)
Composition	DS47/4 (04/10/1994)

Outcome

Outcome of the proceedings	Consultations held
Additional Info	C/190 (31/10/1994) Status of Work in Panels and Implementation of Panel Reports - Report by the Director-General to the Council (10/11/1994) Dispute reported at the panel stage.