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US – COOL (Article 21.5 – Canada and Mexico), DS384/DS386

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2015

Geoffrey Carlson*
Affiliation:
Works in the WTO Secretariat but writes in a wholly personal capacity

Extract

These compliance proceedings under Article 21.5 of the DSU concerned measures adopted by the United States to comply with the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) recommendations and rulings in US – COOL. In US – COOL, the DSB found that a certain US country-of-origin labelling (COOL) measure regarding muscle cuts of meat (the Original COOL Measure), and the administration of that measure, were inconsistent with certain aspects of the TBT Agreement and the GATT 1994. The United States' measure taken to comply with the recommendations and rulings of the DSB consisted of an amendment to the Original COOL Measure (the 2013 Final Rule). In these compliance proceedings, the Panel and Appellate Body referred to the 2013 Final Rule, together with the Original COOL Measure, as the Amended COOL Measure. The Amended COOL Measure was the focus of these compliance proceedings.

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Case Summaries
Copyright
Copyright © Geoffrey Carlson 2015 

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Footnotes

Case Summaries: WTO Disputes

The following summaries provide a brief factual background and describe the key findings of recent WTO panel and Appellate Body reports.

References

1 Panel Report, US – COOL (Article 21.5 – Canada and Mexico), paras. 7.136‒7.137.

2 Ibid., para. 7.150.

3 Ibid., para. 7.176.

4 Ibid., paras. 7.277 and 7.282–7.283.

5 Appellate Body Report, US – COOL (Article 21.5 – Canada and Mexico), paras. 5.1–5.191.

6 Ibid., para. 5.308.

7 Ibid., para. 5.247.

8 Ibid., para. 5.297.

9 Ibid., para. 5.323.

10 Panel Report, US – COOL (Article 21.5 – Canada and Mexico), paras. 7.617–7.643.

11 Appellate Body Report, US – COOL (Article 21.5 – Canada and Mexico), paras. 5.341–5.380.