GD/45

French Discrimination Against Imported Agricultural Machinery

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Parties

Complainant
Sweden
United Kingdom
Respondent
France
Third Parties

Products at Issue

Products at issue
Agricultural machinery
Type of product
Non-agricultural
Product sub-type
Machinery; electrical and electronic equipment

Related disputes

GATT
WTO

Key legal aspects

Legal basis
  • n.a.
Claims raised
  • GATT Article III
Defences raised
  • GATT Article III:8(b)

Adjudicators

Type
Chairperson
Other members

Report

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

Timeline

Request for consultations
Mutually agreed solution

Outcome

Outcome of the proceedings
Consultations held, mutually agreed solution
Additional Info SR.12/5 (29/10/1957) Contracting Parties Twelfth Session - Summary Record of the Fifth Meeting (24/10/1957) UK complaint against French measure, supported by Sweden.SR.12/19 (10/12/1957) Contracting Parties Twelfth Session - Summary Record of the Nineteenth Meeting (28/11/1957) France: "had conducted consultations with the United Kingdom and Sweden. (...) He agreed to the proposal to have this question taken up in the Intersessional Committee if necessary (...)" "The Contracting Parties agreed that if the question was not satisfactorily settled it could be referred to the Intersessional Committee."

SR.13/7 (29/10/1958) Contracting Parties Thirteenth Session - Summary Record of the Seventh Meeting (21/10/1958) France: Ordinance declared null and void the decree that had given rise to the complaint, with retroactive effect. UK and Sweden expressed their satisfaction.