GD/31

Italian Duty on Cheese

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Parties

Complainant
Denmark
Respondent
Italy
Third Parties

Products at Issue

Products at issue
Cheese
Type of product
Agricultural
Product sub-type
Dairy products

Related disputes

GATT
WTO

Key legal aspects

Legal basis
  • n.a.
Claims raised
  • GATT Article XXVIII
Defences raised
  • n.a.

Adjudicators

Type
Chairperson
Other members

Report

Type
Legal basis at issue
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Claims at issue
Defences at issue
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No of Pages (total / legal reasoning)
  • -
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Timeline

Request for consultations
Mutually agreed solution
  • (02/12/1955)

Outcome

Outcome of the proceedings
Consultations held, mutually agreed solution
Additional Info Denmark: Italy "had informed the Contracting Parties in May [1955] of their desire to renegotiate under Article XXVIII certain items which had been bound at Torquay, among which were certain types of cheese bound to Denmark." Talks took place but were unfinished and it was agreed they would continue, but Italy "carried out the increases in the tariff rates about which they were still negotiating. This seemed a breach of the procedures laid down in Article XXVIII." Italy was willing to continue negotiating, and an agreement was concluded in November [1955] and settled by means of an exchange of letters between the two delegations. He proposed that the Contracting Parties consider the item as settled. Italy: had been obliged to take certain customs action due to internal policy. The Contracting Parties noted the settlement of the item.