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See Chapter 6 of this book. The Appellate Body has ruled that import licensing procedures for TRQs are within the scope of the AILP. Report of the Appellate Body, European Communities—Regime for the Importation, Sale and Distribution of Bananas, WT/DS27/AB/R (1997) (“EC—Bananas”) at ¶ 195.
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See, e.g., Report of the GATT Panel (adopted), European Economic Community—Restrictions on Imports of Apples-Complaint by the United States, BISD 36th Supp. 135, ¶ 5.2 (1989). In that case the EC made no attempt to argue that the licensing system at issue was not an import restriction within the meaning of Article XI, but instead claimed that it fell within one of the Article XI exceptions. See also, Report of the GATT Panel (adopted), Thailand—Restrictions on Importation of and Internal Taxes on Cigarettes, BISD 37th Supp. 200, ¶ 67 (1990); Report of the GATT Panel (adopted), Japanese Measures on Imports of Leather, BISD 31st Supp. 94, at ¶ 44 (1984).
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A GATT panel held that the allocation of back-dated quotas, i.e., “quotas declared to have been already filled at the time of their announcement”, violated this requirement. Report of the GATT Panel (adopted), EEC—Restrictions on Imports of Dessert Apples, BISD 36th Supp. 93, ¶ 12.26 (1989).
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Many Members have failed to make the necessary notifications. As of October 2003, 27 Members had made no notifications whatever to the WTO Committee on Import Licensing, and only 94 including the EC as one Member had notified their laws and regulations pursuant to Article 1.4(a). Committee on Import Licensing, Report (2003) of the Committee on Import Licensing to the Council for Trade in Goods, G/L/652 (October 28, 2003), ¶¶ 5, 10. In EC—Poultry the Panel refused to accept the EC’s explanation for nonnotification that it was unclear until the Appellate Body’s decision in EC—Bananas that the AILP applied to TRQs. EC-Poultry, supra note 2, ¶ 244.
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In EC—Poultry the Panel rejected Brazil’s claim that the EC system infringed this provision, noting that the fact that the licenses had been filled meant that they must have been issued in “economic” quantiti EC—Poultry, supra note 2, at ¶ 262. The fact that the licenses had been filled also led the Panel to reject Brazil’s claim that speculation in licenses had discouraged full utilization of the TRQ, in violation of Articles 3.5(h) and (j). Id. at 259.
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In EC—Poultry Brazil claimed that the EC had violated this requirement by failing to provide the specified information. The Panel rejected the claim, observing that Brazil had not demonstrated that the EC had ever failed to provide information on request, and that this provision did not require Members to provide the information voluntarily, but only on request. EC-Poultry, supra note 2, at ¶ 265.
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