GD/181

India - Licensing Procedures with respect to Imports of Almonds

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Parties

Complainant
United States
Respondent
India
Third Parties

Products at Issue

Products at issue
Almonds
Type of product
Agricultural
Product sub-type
Fruits and dried fruits

Related disputes

GATT
Related GD
GD/180
WTO

Key legal aspects

Legal basis
  • GATT Article XXIII:1
  • LIC Article 4:2
Claims raised
  • LIC Article 1
  • LIC Article 3
Defences raised
  • n.a.

Adjudicators

Type Panel
Chairperson Richard Hochörtler (Austria)
Other members Jorge Vigano (Argentina), Peter P. T. Cheung (Hong Kong), Crawford Falconer (New Zealand), Delfino Bondad (Philippines)

Report

Type Panel
Legal basis at issue
  • GATT Article XXIII:1
  • LIC Article 4:2
Claims at issue
Defences at issue
  • n.a.
No of Pages (total / legal reasoning)
  • -
  • -
  • -

Timeline

Request for consultations
Request for establishment
Establishment
Composition
Mutually agreed solution
Request withdrawn

Outcome

Outcome of the proceedings
Consultations held, mutually agreed solution, request withdrawn
Additional Info LIC/M/19 (08/10/1987) Minutes of LIC Committee Meeting (29/09/1987) US: First request of establishment of a Panel under the LIC, which "raised questions about the necessary procedures that should be followed by the Committee."L/6223 (09/10/1987) Note by the Chairman of the LIC Committee Meeting (29/09/1987) "The Committee agreed that a panel should be established, with terms of reference and membership to be worked out by the Chairman in consultation with the delegations concerned."

LIC/M/20 (18/11/1987) Minutes of LIC Committee Meeting (09/10/1987) Chairman: "consultations on the terms of reference and membership of the panel were continuing."

LIC/M/22 (26/10/1988) Minutes of LIC Committee Meeting (12/09/1988) "The Committee took note of the communication from the United States (LIC/15 [Note by the Panel Chairman which referred to the letter from the US of 03/06/1988, with the same content as C/154/Add.1 which ended the dispute under document GATT - L/6197]) advising that India and the United States had reached a mutually satisfactory solution (...) and that as a result the complaint (...) had been withdrawn".

For a discussion of the US withdrawal of the complaint (LIC/15), see document LIC/M/22 (document date: 26 October 1988, meeting date: 12 September 1988).