GD/21

Brazilian Compensatory Concessions

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Brazilian Compensatory Concessions

Parties

Complainant
United Kingdom
United States
Respondent
Brazil
Third Parties

Products at Issue

Products at issue
General
Type of product
Not specified
Product sub-type

Related disputes

GATT
WTO

Key legal aspects

Legal basis
  • n.a.
Claims raised
  • Annecy First Protocol of Modifications of Schedule III
Defences raised
  • n.a.

Adjudicators

Type Contracting Parties
Chairperson
Other members

Report

Type Contracting Parties
Legal basis at issue
  • n.a.
Claims at issue
  • Annecy First Protocol of Modifications of Schedule III
Defences at issue
  • n.a.
No of Pages (total / legal reasoning) 1
  • -
  • Inconsistency found
  • -

Timeline

Request for consultations
Report
Adoption of report

Outcome

Outcome of the proceedings
Report adopted
Additional Info G/46/Add.4 (15/09/1953) US and UK "propose that the question of compensatory concessions agreed upon by Brazil at Annecy, but not yet made effective, be placed on the Provisional Agenda of the Eighth Session for the purpose of receiving a report from the Government of Brazil."

SR.8/7 (30/09/1953) Contracting Parties Eighth Session - Summary Record of the Seventh Meeting (24/09/1953) Brazil: "not prepared as yet to report favourably on the complaint made by the United Kingdom and the United States and appealed to their Governments for more time during the intersessional period in which his Government hoped to reach a solution." Chairman "hoped that a reasonable solution would be forthcoming and that this subject would not appear again on the Agenda of the Contracting Parties."

L/167 (23/10/1953) Proposal by the Delegations of the United Kingdom and the United States: Draft Resolution of October 1953 concerning the Entry into Force of the Compensatory Concessions Negotiated by the Government of Brazil in 1949: Considering that the Government of Brazil had not yet given effect to the compensatory concessions in respect of oat flour, domestic earthenware, tetraethyl and automotive parts, agreed in negotiations with the Governments of the United Kingdom and the United States, the Contracting Parties "Urge[d] the Government of Brazil to give effect to these concessions without delay and to report as early as possible on the action taken."

SR.8/20 (31/10/1953) Contracting Parties Eighth Session - Summary Record of the Twentieth Meeting (24/10/1953) Adoption of the resolution (L/167).