GD/127

The United States Complaint against the European Community and Brazil, Concerning the Granting of Subsidies on the Export and Production of Poultry

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Export and production subsidies of poultry

Parties

Complainant
United States
Respondent
Brazil
EEC
EEC-10
Third Parties

Products at Issue

Products at issue
Poultry
Type of product
Agricultural
Product sub-type
Meat products

Related disputes

GATT
WTO

Key legal aspects

Legal basis
  • SCM Article 12
Claims raised
  • GATT Article XVI
  • SCM Article 10
  • SCM Article 8
  • SCM Article 9
Defences raised
  • SCM Article 12:3
  • SCM Article 14:4

Adjudicators

Type
Chairperson
Other members

Report

Type
Legal basis at issue
  • SCM Article 12
Claims at issue
Defences at issue
No of Pages (total / legal reasoning)
  • -

Timeline

Request for consultations
  • (16/02/1982)
Request for conciliation

Outcome

Outcome of the proceedings
Consultations held
Additional Info SCM/M/Spec/9 (16/01/1984) Minutes of the SCM Committee Meeting (18/11/1983) "The representative of Brazil said that the US complaint constituted the first case involving a developing country [under the SCM Code]. It should be, therefore, clear that it was addressedat two different countries and indeed there were two different cases. (…) As far as the complaint against Brazil was concerned he had very serious doubts whether the US complaint conformed with the Code. (...) [T]he Committee wished to reflect on the matter (…) in the meantime the Chairman will organize informal consultations with interested Signatories."SCM/M/Spec/10 (18/06/1984) Minutes of the SCM Committee Meeting (10/05/1984) "There have been two rounds of such informal consultations (...) [T]hese consultations should continue, at the informal level, and without prejudice to any legal positions delegations may have in the Committee."