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I. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
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A. Text of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
B. Interpretation and application of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
1. Paragraph 1
(a) Paragraph 1(b)
(i) Item (iv) — “other decisions of the CONTRACTING PARTIES to GATT
1947”
(b) Relationship with Article XVI:1 of the WTO Agreement
II.
Article I back to top
A. Text of
Article I
B. Text of AD
Article I
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article I
1. Article
I:1
(a) General
(i) Object and purpose
(ii) Scope of application
(iii) Order of examination
(b) “any advantage,
favour, privilege or
immunity granted by any Member”
(i) General
(ii) Allocation of tariff quotas
(iii) Reference to GATT practice
(c) “like products”
(d) “any product originating in or destined
for an other country”
(e) “shall be accorded immediately and
unconditionally”
(i) General
(ii) Reference to GATT practice
D. Exceptions
to the MFN Principle
1. Anti-dumping and countervailing duties
(a) Article VI of GATT 1994
(i) Reference to GATT practice
2. Frontier
traffic and customs unions
(a) Article XXIV of GATT 1994
(b) Reference to GATT practice
3. Enabling
Clause
(a) Text and adoption of the Enabling Clause
(b) Generalized System of Preferences
(c) Regional trade arrangements among developing
country Members
(d) Special treatment of the least-developed
countries
(e) Interpretation
(i) The relationship between the Enabling Clause
and Article I:1 of the GATT 1994
(ii) Footnote 3 to paragraph 2
(iii) Paragraph 2: “developing countries”
(iv) Relationship between paragraph 2(a) and 2(d)
(v) Paragraph 3(a)
(vi) Paragraph 3(c) “to respond positively to
the development, financial and trade needs of developing countries”
(vii) Burden of proof under the Enabling Clause
(f) Reference to GATT practice
4. Waiver
on Preferential Tariff Treatment for Least-Developed Countries
E. Relationship with other Articles
1. Article III
(a) Reference to GATT practice
2. Article VI
3. Article XI
4. Article XIII
5. Article XXIV
6. Article XXVIII
F. Relationship with other WTO Agreements
1. SCM Agreement
III.
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A. Text of
Article II
B. Text of AD
Article II
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article II
1. Article
II:1(a)
(a) Bonding requirements
(b) Qualification
in schedules
(c) Implementation in WTO Schedules of HS changes
(d) Database for tariffs
(i) Integrated Data Base
(IDB) Project
(ii) Consolidated Tariff Schedule Data Base
(iii) Review of the Understanding on the
Interpretation of Article XXVIII of GATT 1994
(e) Information technology products
(i) The Ministerial Declaration on Trade in
Information Technology Products
(ii) The Committee of Participants on the
Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products
2. Article
II:1(b)
(a) First sentence
(i) “subject to the terms, conditions or
qualifications set forth”
(ii) Interpretation of tariff concessions in a
Schedule
(iii) “ordinary customs duties”
(iv) “in excess of”
(b) Article II:1(b) Second sentence
3. Relationship between paragraphs 1(a) and 1(b)
4. Article
II:5
5. Article II:7
D. Relationship with other Articles
1. General
2. Article III
3. Article XI
4. Article XIII
5. Article XVII
E. Exceptions and Derogations from Article II
1. Waivers
F. Relationship with other WTO Agreements
1. Agreement on Agriculture
2. Licensing Agreement
IV.
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A. Text of
Article III
B. Text of AD
Article III
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article III
1. General
(a) Purpose of Article III
(i) Avoidance of protectionism in the application
of internal measures
(ii) Protection of tariff commitments under
Article III/Relevance of tariff concessions
(iii) Comparison with competition law
(iv) Reference to GATT practice
(b) Scope of application
— measures imposed at
the time or point of importation
(i) State trading enterprises
(ii) Reference to GATT practice
(c) Relevance of policy purpose of internal
measures / “aims-and-effects” test
(i) Reference to GATT practice
(d) Relevance of trade effects
(i) Reference to GATT practice
(e) State trading monopolies
(i) Reference to GATT practice
2. Article
III:1
(a) Relationship between paragraph 1 and
paragraphs 2, 4 and 5
(i) Reference to GATT practice
3. Article
III:2
(a) General
(i) General distinction between first and second
sentences
(ii) Relationship with paragraph 1
(iii) Legal status of Ad Article III
(b) Paragraph 2, first sentence
(i) General
(ii) “like domestic products”
(iii) “internal tax or other internal charge
of any kind”
(iv) “in excess of those applied”
(v) Applied,
“directly or indirectly”,
to like domestic products
(c) Paragraph 2, second sentence
(i) General
(ii) “directly competitive or substitutable
products”
(iii) “not similarly taxed”
(iv) “so as to afford protection to domestic
production”
4. Article
III:4
(a) General
(i) Test under paragraph 4
(ii) Burden of proof
(iii) Relationship with other paragraphs of
Article III
(b) “like products”
(i) General
(ii) Relevant factors
(iii) Reference to GATT practice
(c) “laws, regulations or requirements”
(i) Differences from
“measures” under
Article XXIII:1(b)
(ii) Non-mandatory measures
(iii) Action of private parties
(iv) The term
“requirement”
(v) Reference to GATT practice
(d) “affecting the internal sale, offering
for sale, purchase …”
(i) Reference to GATT practice
(e) “treatment no less favourable”
(i) General
(ii) Methodology of comparison
(f) Relationship with other GATT provisions
(i) Relationship with Article XX
(ii) Relationship with Article XXIII:1(b)
(g) Reference to GATT practice
5. Article
III:8
(a) Item (b)
(i) “the payment of subsidies exclusively to
domestic producers”
(b) Reference to GATT practice
D. Relationship with other Articles
1. Article I
2. Article II
(a) Reference to GATT practice
3. Article VI
4. Article XI
(a) Reference to GATT practice
5. Article XVII
(a) Reference to GATT practice
E. Relationship with other WTO
Agreements
1. General
2. SPS Agreement
3. TBT Agreement
4. SCM Agreement
5. TRIMs Agreement
6. GATS
V.
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A. Text of
Article IV
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article IV
1. Reference to GATT practice
VI.
Article V back to top
A. Text of
Article V
B. Text of AD
Article V
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article V
1. Reference to GATT practice
VII.
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A. Text of
Article VI
B. Text of AD
Article VI
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article VI
1. Scope of Article VI
(a) Investigation initiated before entry into
force of WTO Agreement
(b) Anti-dumping measures other than anti-dumping
duties
2. Reference to GATT practice
3. Interpretative materials
(a) Tokyo Round Agreements
(b) Anti-Dumping Agreement
(c) SCM Agreement
4. Challenge against a law as such under Article
VI
5. Article
VI:1
(a) Elements of Paragraph 1
(b) Material injury
6. Paragraph 2
(a) Permissible
responses to dumping
(b) Methodology
of investigation
D. Relationship with other Articles
1. Article I
2. Article II
3. Article III
4. Article XI
E. Relationship with other WTO
Agreements
1. Anti-Dumping Agreement
2. Tokyo Round Agreement on Interpretation and
Application of Articles VI, XVI and XXIII of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade
3. SCM Agreement
VIII.
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A. Text of
Article VII
B. Text of AD
Article VII
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article VII
1. Reference to GATT practice
IX.
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A. Text of
Article VIII
B. Text of AD
Article VIII
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article VIII
1. Article
VIII:1(a)
2. Reference to GATT practice
D. Relationship with other WTO
Agreements
1. WTO Agreement
2. Agreement between the IMF and the WTO
3. Declaration on Coherence
X.
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A. Text of
Article IX
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article IX
1. Reference to GATT practice
XI.
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A. Text of
Article X
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article X
1. General
2. Article
X:1
(a) “of general application”
(i) Interpretation
(ii) Reference to GATT practice
3. Article
X:2
(a) General
4. Article
X:3
(a) General
(i) Scope of paragraph 3
(b) Article
X:3(a)
(i) Scope of
Article X:3(a)
(ii) “administer in a uniform, impartial and
reasonable manner”
(iii) Reference to GATT practice
(c) Article
X:3(c)
(i) “the date of this Agreement”
C. Relationship with other Articles
1. General
2. Article I
3. Article III
4. Reference to GATT practice
D. Relationship with other WTO
Agreements
1. Licensing Agreement
2. Anti-Dumping Agreement
XII.
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A. Text of
Article XI
B. Text of AD
Article XI
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article XI
1. General
(a) Status of Article XI in GATT
(b) Burden of proof
(c) Reference to GATT practice
2. Article
XI:1
(a) General
(b) “prohibitions or restrictions … on the
importation of any product”
(i) Scope
(c) “prohibitions or restrictions … on the
exportation or sale for export of any product”
(d) “restrictions made effective through
state-trading operations”
(e) Bonding requirements
(f) Licensing requirements
(g) Reference to GATT practice
3. Notification Requirements
D. Relationship with other Articles
1. Article I
2. Article II
3. Article III
4. Article VI
5. Article XIII
6. Article XVII
7. Reference to GATT practice
E. Relationship with other WTO
Agreements
1. SPS Agreement
2. Anti-Dumping Agreement
XIII.
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A. Text of
Article XII
B. Text of AD
Article XII
C. Understanding on
the Balance-of-Payments Provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade 1994
D. Interpretation and
Application of Article XII
1. BOP
Understanding
E. Relationship with other Articles
1. Article
XVII
2. Article
XVIII
3. Reference
to GATT practice
XIV.
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A. Text of
Article XIII
B. Text of AD
Article XIII
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article XIII
1. General
(a) Scope
of application
(b) Object
and purpose
2. Article
XIII:1
3. Article
XIII:2
(a) Chapeau
(b) Article
XIII:2(a)
(c) Article
XIII:2(d)
(i) Allocation
of import quotas to Members who have no “substantial interest”
(ii) Allocation
of tariff/import quotas to non-Members
D. Relationship with other Articles
1. Article
I
2. Article
II
3. Article
XI
4. Article
XXVIII
5. Reference
to GATT practice
E. Relationship with other WTO
Agreements
1. Agreement
on Agriculture
2. Agreement
on Safeguards
XV.
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A. Text of
Article XIV
B. Text of AD
Article XIV
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article XIV
D. Relationship with other Articles
1. Article XVII
2. Reference to GATT practice
XVI.
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A. Text of
Article XV
B. Text of AD
Article XV
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article XV
1. Reference to GATT practice
XVII.
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A. Text of
Article XVI
B. Text of AD
Article XVI
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article XVI
1. Article XVI:4
2. SCM Agreement
3. Reference to GATT practice
XVIII.
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A. Text of
Article XVII
B. Text of AD
Article XVII
C. Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XVII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
D. Interpretation and
Application of Article XVII
1. General
(a) Relationship between paragraphs 1(a) and 1(b)
of Article XVII
(b) Ad Note Articles XI, XII, XIII, XIV and XVIII
2. Article
XVII:1(a)
(a) Reference to GATT practice
3. Article
XVII:1(b)
(a) Reference to GATT practice
4. Article
XVII:4
(a) Notification requirements
(b) Reference to GATT practice
5. Understanding on the Interpretation of Article
XVII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
(a) Paragraph 1
(b) Paragraph 3
(c) Paragraph 5
(i) Working Party on State Trading Enterprises
(ii) “an illustrative list”
(iii) “general background paper”
E. Relationship with other Articles
1. Article I
2. Article II
(a) Reference to GATT practice
3. Article III
(a) Reference to GATT practice
4. Article XI
(a) Reference to GATT practice
5. Articles XII, XIII, XIV and XVIII
(a) Reference to GATT practice
F. Relationship with other WTO Agreements
1. Agreement on Agriculture
XIX.
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A. Text of
Article XVIII
B. Text of AD
Article XVIII
C. Understanding on the Balance-of-Payments Provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
D. Interpretation and
Application of Article XVIII
1. Article XVIII:B
(a) General
(b) Jurisdiction of panels
(c) Right to maintain balance-of-payments measures
(d) Reference to GATT practice
2. Article
XVIII:9
(a) General
(b) Article
XVIII:9(a)
3. Article
XVIII:11
(a) Burden of proof
(b) Note
Ad Article XVIII:11
(i) General
(ii) “would produce”
(iii) “thereupon”
(c) Proviso to Article XVIII:11
4. Article
XVIII:12
(a) Article
XVIII:12(c)
5. Understanding on the Balance-of-Payments
Provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
(a) General
(b) Footnote 1
(c) Paragraph 1
(d) Paragraph 5
(i) Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions
(e) Paragraph 9
(f) Paragraph 13
(i) Interpretation
(ii) Reporting procedures
E. Relationship with other Articles
1. Articles XI, XIII, XIV and XVII
2. Article XII
3. Reference to GATT practice
XX.
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A. Text of
Article XIX
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XIX
1. General
(a) Application of Article XIX
(b) Standard
of review
2. Article
XIX:1
(a) Article
XIX:1(a): as a result of unforeseen developments
(i) Concept
of unforeseen developments
(ii) Requirement
to demonstrate “unforeseen developments”
(iii) Logical
connection between “unforeseen developments” and “the condition
for imposition of a safeguard measure”
(iv) “as
a result … of the effect of the obligations incurred by a Member”
(v) “being
imported in such increased quantities …”
(vi) “under
such conditions”
(vii) “as
to cause or threaten serious injury to domestic producers”
3. Article
XIX:2
(a) “shall give notice in writing to the
Contracting Parties as far as in advance as may be practicable”
(b) “an opportunity to consult”
4. Reference to GATT practice
C. Relationship with the other WTO
Agreements
1. Agreement on Safeguards
XXI.
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A. Text of
Article XX
B. Text of AD
Article XX
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article XX
1. General
(a) Nature
and purpose of Article XX
(b) Structure
of Article XX
(i) Two-tier
test
(ii) Language
of paragraphs (a) to (i)
(c) Burden
of proof
2. Preamble
of Article XX (the “chapeau”)
(a) Scope
(b) “arbitrary
or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same
conditions prevail”
(i) Constitutive
elements
(ii) Type
of discrimination covered by the chapeau
(iii) Standard
of discrimination
(iv) Examples
of arbitrary and unjustifiable discrimination
(c) “disguised
restriction on international trade”
(d) Reference
to GATT practice
3. Paragraph
(b)
(a) Three-tier
test
(i) General
(ii) Policy
objective of the measure at issue
(iii) “necessary”
(b) Reference
to GATT practice
4. Paragraph
(d)
(a) General
(b) “necessary”
(c) Aspect
of measure to be justified as “necessary”
(d) Reference
to GATT practice
5. Paragraph
(g): “relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural
resources”
(a) “the
conservation of exhaustible natural resources”
(i) meaning
of Jurisdictional
limitations
(ii) “exhaustible”
natural resources
(iii) Reference
to GATT practice
(b) “relating
to”
(i) Aspect
of the measure to be justified as “relating to”
(ii) Meaning
of “relating to” and “primarily aimed at”
(c) “measures
made effective in conjunction with”
(d) Reference
to GATT practice
XXII.
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A. Text of
Article XXI
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXI
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXIII.
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A. Text of
Article XXII
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXII
XXIV.
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A. Text of
Article XXIII
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXIII
1. General
(a) Relationship
between Articles XXIII:1(a) and XXIII:1(b)
2. Article
XXIII:1(b)
(a) Overview
of the non-violation complaint
(b) Purpose
(c) Scope
(d) Test
under Article XXIII:1(b)
(e) Burden
of proof
(f) “measure”
(g) “benefit”
(h) Legitimate
expectations
(i) “nullified
or impaired”
(j) Non-violation
complaints in relation to the Agreement on Government Procurement
(k) Relationship
with other WTO Agreements
(i) Anti-Dumping
Agreement
3. Article
XXIII:1(c)
4. Article
XXIII:2
5. Reference
to GATT practice
XXV.
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A. Text of
Article XXIV
B. Text of AD
Article XXIV
C. Understanding on the Interpretation of Article
XXIV of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
D. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXIV
1. General
(a) Committee on Regional Trade Agreements
(b) Enabling Clause
(c) Reference to GATT practice
2. Article
XXIV:4
(a) Relationship
between paragraph 4 and paragraphs 5 to 9
(b) “not
to raise barriers to the trade of other contracting parties”
(c) Reference
to GATT practice
3. Article
XXIV:5
(a) Chapeau
(i) Interpretation:
the necessity test
(ii) Reference to GATT practice
(b) Paragraph 5(a)
(i) Link with the chapeau
(ii) “General incidence” of duties
(iii) “other regulations of commerce”
(iv) “Economic test”
(c) Reference to GATT practice
4. Article
XXIV:7
(a) “Any contracting party
… shall promptly
notify the CONTRACTING PARTIES”
(b) Examination
of agreements
(c) Absence
of recommendation pursuant to Article XXIV:7
(d) “Any
substantial change in the plan and schedule … shall be communicated to
the Contracting Parties”
5. Article
XXIV:8
(a) Article
XXIV:8(a)(i)
(b) Reference to GATT practice
(c) Article
XXIV:8(a)(ii)
(i) Interpretation
(ii) Reference to GATT practice
6. Understanding
on the Interpretation of Article XXIV of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade 1994
(a) Notification
and reporting requirements in accordance with paragraphs 9 and 11 of the
Understanding
(b) Paragraph
12 on dispute settlement
E. Relationship with other Articles
1. Article
I
2. Article XI
3. Article XIII
F. Relationship with other WTO
Agreements
1. Agreement on Safeguards
(a) Footnote 1 to Article 2.1
(b) Article 2.2
2. Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
G. Annex I
1. List
of RTAs notified under Article XXIV of the GATT 1994 for which factual
examination has been completed
H. Annex II
1. List
of RTAs notified under Article XXIV of the GATT 1994 under factual
examination
I. Annex III 1. List
of RTAs notified under Article XXIV of the GATT 1994 for which factual
examination has not yet commenced
J. Annex
IV
1. List of
RTAs notified under Article XXIV of the GATT 1994 which have not yet
been considered by the Council for Trade in Goods
K. Annex
V
1. RTAs
notified under Article XXIV of the GATT 1994 which have been terminated
following the Enlargement of the European Union on 1 May 2004
2. RTAs
notified under the GATT 1947 which have been terminated following the
Enlargement of the European Union on 1 May 2004
L. Annex
VI
1. Reports
on the operation of agreements — 2004 Schedule
2. Reports
on the operation of agreements — 2001 Schedule
XXVI.
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A. Text of
Article XXV
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXV
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXVII.
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A. Text of
Article XXVI
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXVI
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXVIII.
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A. Text of
Article XXVII
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXVII
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXIX.
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A. Text of
Article XXVIII
B. Text of AD
Article XXVIII
C. Understanding on the Interpretation of Article
XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
D. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXVIII
1. Legal relevance of Article XXVIII negotiations in interpretation of GATT Articles
2. Review of the Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XXVIII of the GATT 1994
3. Reference to GATT Practice
XXX.
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A. Text of
Article XXVIII bis
B. Text of AD
Article XXVIII bis
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXVIII bis
XXXI.
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A. Text of
Article XXIX
B. Text of AD
Article XXIX
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXIX
XXXII.
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A. Text of
Article XXX
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXX
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXXIII.
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A. Text of
Article XXXI
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXXI
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXXIV.
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A. Text of
Article XXXII
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXXII
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXXV.
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A. Text of
Article XXXIII
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXXIII
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXXVI.
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A. Text of
Article XXXIV
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXXIV
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXXVII.
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A. Text of
Article XXXV
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXXV
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXXVIII.
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A. Text of
Article XXXVI
B. Text of AD
Article XXXVI
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXXVI
1. Reference to GATT practice
XXXIX.
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A. Text of
Article XXXVII
B. Text of AD
Article XXXVII
C. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXXVII
1. Reference to GATT practice
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A. Text of
Article XXXVIII
B. Interpretation and
Application of Article XXXVIII
1. Reference to GATT practice
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