{"id":218323,"date":"2010-01-22T14:20:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtradelaw.typepad.com\/ielpblog\/2010\/01\/pleading-no-contest-in-the-zeroing-disputes.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T14:20:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:20:36","slug":"pleading-no-contest-in-the-zeroing-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218323","title":{"rendered":"Pleading “No Contest” in the Zeroing Disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's hard to know what to make of a WTO panel decision like today's U.S. – AD Measures on Carrier Bags<\/a> report.  In a nutshell, Thailand alleged that the U.S. used "zeroing" in the anti-dumping proceeding at issue, in violation of the AD Agreement.  In response, the U.S. did not contest the facts or the applicable law (see my post<\/a> on the U.S. written submission in the case).  In fact, the parties had a whole procedural agreement where they laid all of this out, including the period of time for implementation:<\/p>\n

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3. The United States will not contest Thailand's claim that the measures identified in the attached request for the establishment of a panel are inconsistent with the first sentence of Article 2.4.2 of the Anti-Dumping Agreement on the grounds stated in United States – Final Dumping Determination on Softwood Lumber from Canada, WT\/DS264\/AB\/R (adopted 31 August 2004).<\/p>\n

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5. Provided that the panel's finding is limited to a finding that the measures identified in the attached request for the establishment of a panel are inconsistent with the first sentence of Article 2.4.2 of the Anti-Dumping Agreement, the parties agree that, pursuant to Article 21.3(b) of the DSU, the reasonable period of time for bringing each such measure into conformity with the Anti-Dumping Agreement will be six months, beginning on the date on which the DSB adopts the report of the panel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(See http:\/\/docsonline.wto.org\/DDFDocuments\/t\/WT\/DS\/383-4.doc<\/a>)   Thus, the U.S. would not contest the claim, the panel would find a violation, the U.S. would not appeal (presumably), and the implementation period would be six months.<\/p>\n

So how to characterize such an approach by the parties and the panel?  Is this akin to pleading "no contest"?  I feel like someone out there could provide a nice theoretical framework to describe this situation, but it's beyond my capability.<\/p>\n

Note that this is not the first time this has occurred.  It was also the way the U.S. – Shrimp AD Measure (Ecuador)<\/a> case was handled.  (And that case had two of the same panelists as the Carrier Bags case!)<\/p>\n

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It's hard to know what to make of a WTO panel decision like today's U.S. – AD Measures on Carrier Bags report.  In a nutshell, Thailand alleged that the U.S. used "zeroing" in the anti-dumping proceeding at issue, in violation of the AD Agreement.  In response, the U.S. did not contest the facts or the applicable law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}