GD/26

Peru's Import Prohibition of Imports from Czechoslovakia

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Complainant
Czechoslovakia
Respondent
Peru
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  • GATT Article XXIII
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Consultations held, mutually agreed solution, request withdrawn
Additional Info L/235 (04/10/1954) Communication from Czechoslovakia (16/09/1954) Annex: Decree of the Government of Peru (11/03/1953) Prohibited imports into Peru of goods from Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, USSR and the People's Republic of China due to unfavourable commercial exchanges and that their prices could not "be regarded as normal taking account of the various factors (...) involved in their production and foreign trade."SR.9/27 (29/12/1954) Contracting Parties Ninth Session - Summary Record of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting (22/12/1954) Peru: "the Decree prohibiting imports from Czechoslovakia had been abrogated by his Government, and it was hoped that trade with Czechoslovakia would be restored to normal in the near future." Czechoslovakia: the "item could be removed from the agenda."