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8 - Chile – Price Band System and Safeguard Measures Relating to Certain Agricultural Products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

Kyle Bagwell
Affiliation:
Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Alan O. Sykes
Affiliation:
Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Henrik Horn
Affiliation:
Stockholms Universitet
Petros C. Mavroidis
Affiliation:
Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Introduction

This study addresses the dispute brought to the World Trade Organization (WTO) by Argentina concerning certain Chilean measures affecting the importation of wheat, wheat flour, oil seeds, edible vegetable oils and sugar. The complaint by Argentina challenged two types of policies – a “price band system” that was applicable to four of those product categories, and safeguards measures that were applicable to three of them. The WTO panel ruled in favor of Argentina on both sets of measures. It found that the price band system violated Article IV of the Agriculture Agreement and Article II of GATT 1994. The safeguards measures, according to the panel, violated various provisions of the Safeguards Agreement, as well as Article XIX of GATT 1994. Chile elected not to appeal the panel ruling regarding the safeguards measures, but did appeal the adverse finding as to the price band system. The Appellate Body subsequently affirmed in substantial part the finding that the price band system violated Article 4 of the Agriculture Agreement, but reversed the finding of a violation under Article II of GATT 1994. Chile has since indicated an intention to comply with the ruling, and an arbitration pursuant to Article 21.3 of the DSU has determined that the reasonable period of time for compliance will expire on December 23, 2003.

Because the issues raised by Argentina regarding the safeguards measures have for the most part surfaced in other cases that deal with them in greater detail, and because Chile did not appeal the panel's findings on these issues, we will not address them here.

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The WTO Case Law of 2002
The American Law Institute Reporters' Studies
, pp. 133 - 157
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

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References

Bagwell, Kyle and Staiger, Robert W. (2002). The Economics of the World Trading System (MIT Press: Cambridge MA).Google Scholar
Nordstrom, H. (2001). Do Variable Levies Beggar Thy Neighbor?, European Journal of Political Economy 17: 420–430.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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