WTO's Dispute Settlement Body Accepts EU Bid for Compliance Panel in Spat on US CV Duties
The World Trade Organization's dispute settlement body during its July 28 meeting agreed to the EU's request to create a compliance panel concerning whether the U.S. fully complied with a prior panel ruling on its countervailing duties on ripe olives from Spain. During the meeting, the EU said further action was needed given the U.S. failure to fully implement the ruling and engage with the EU, a Geneva-based trade official said in an email. The U.S. said it was disappointed the bloc requested the panel, adding that under a procedural understanding between it and the EU, the U.S. accepts the compliance panel, the official said.
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The EU requested the panel earlier this month (see 2307140024). In the case, the dispute panel found that the U.S. violated WTO rules during the investigation leading up to the CVD order. The panel ruled that the U.S. erred when finding that subsidies given to Spanish raw olive growers under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy were specific to the olive growers (see 2111190028).