WTO Panels Formed to Decide Two U.S.-Argentina Trade Disputes
The World Trade Organization established panels to settle two disputes between the U.S. and Argentina, at a Jan. 28 meeting. A panel was formed to decide the complaint by the U.S., Japan, and European Union on Argentine import restrictions, even though Argentina said it had already scrapped the measures on Jan. 25. Argentina urged the panel not to rule on the import restrictions, given that they were not in force at the time the panel was established.
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At the same meeting, the WTO established another panel to decide Argentina’s challenge of U.S. meat import restrictions. According to Argentina, the measures are inconsistent with U.S. obligations pursuant to the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures agreement, among other things.
(See ITT's Online Archives 12120619 for summary of the first U.S. request for a panel in the Argentine import restrictions dispute, and 12083117 for summary of Argentina's filing of a dispute with the U.S. over meat import restrictions.)