WORLD TRADE WT/DS22/8
18December 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-5362)
Original: English
BRAZIL -MEASURES AFFECTING DESICCATED COCONUT
Notification ofanAppeal bythePhilippines under
paragraph 4ofArticle 16oftheUnderstanding onRules
andProcedures Governing theSettlement ofDisputes (DSU)
Thefollowing notification, dated 16December 1996, sentbythePhilippines totheDispute
Settlement Body (DSB), iscirculated toMembers. Simultaneously, aNotice ofAppeal wasfiledwith
theAppellate Body pursuant totheWorking Procedures forAppellate Review (WT/AB/WP/1).
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PursuanttoArticle16(4)oftheUnderstandingonRulesandProceduresGoverningtheSettlement
ofDisputes andRule20(1) oftheWorking Procedures forAppellate Review, please beinformed that
theRepublic ofthePhilippines hasdecided toappeal totheAppellate Body oncertain issues and
interpretations oflawcovered anddeveloped bythepanel report onBrazil -Measures Affecting
Desiccated Coconut (WT/DS22/R) (17October 1996).
Attached isacopyofourcorresponding letter addressed totheAppellate Body Secretariat and
theNotice ofAppeal, which isbeing filedsimultaneously.
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Notice ofAppeal bytheRepublic ofthePhilippines
Pursuant toArticle 16oftheUnderstanding ontheRules andProcedures Governing the
Settlement ofDisputes ("DSU") andRule20oftheWorking Procedures forAppellate Review (the
"Working Procedures"), theRepublic ofthePhilippines (the"Philippines") hereby notifies itsdecision
toappeal totheAppellate Body certain issues oflawcovered inthepanel report onBrazil -Measures
AffectingDesiccatedCoconut(WT/DS22/R)(17October1996)andcertainlegalinterpretationsdeveloped
bythepanel.
ThePhilippines seeks areview bytheAppellate Body ofthePanel'slegalinterpretations of
Articles 32.3, 32.4, 32.1, 21and10oftheWTO Agreement onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
(which thePhilippines didnotinvoke initsrequest forestablishment ofapanel, andintheterms of
reference); thePreamble ,andArticles II:2,II:4andXVI:1 oftheWTO Agreement; Articles I,II
andVIofGATT 1994; Article 7.1oftheDSU; andother related provisions (including certain of
theDecember 1994 transitional Decisions, andrelated GATT/WTO jurisprudence) -inconnection
withthePanel'sprincipal conclusion thatArticles I,IIandVIofGATT 1994 areinapplicable tothe
present dispute.
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ThePhilippines considers thattheinterpretations developed bythePanel arenotsupported
bythetextandcontext oftheabove-mentioned provisions, andbytheobject andpurpose oftheWTO
Agreement; andimproperly ignored other relevant provisions. ThePanel'sinterpretations and
conclusions areconsequently contrary totheprinciples setoutintheVienna Convention ontheLaw
ofTreaties concerning theinterpretation oftreaties andtheapplicability ofnewtreaties thathavealready
entered intoforce. ThePhilippines further considers thatthePanel erredinlawwhen itfailed toexamine
whether themeasure atissueisinconsistent withArticles IandIIofGATT 1994, andisnotjustified
under therequirements ofArticle VIofGATT 1994.
ThePhilippines considers thatthere issufficient basis, suchasunder DSU Article 19and
Rule16(1) oftheWorking Procedures, fortheAppellate Body toexamine thedisputed measure and
toconclude thatthemeasure isinconsistent withArticles IandIIofGATT 1994and/or isnotjustified
under Article VIofGATT 1994; andtorecommend thatBrazil bring themeasure intoconformity
withArticles I,IIandVIofGATT 1994. Should theAppellate Body determine thatsuchanexamination
ofthedisputedmeasuremayrequiremoretimethanisnormallyallocatedtotheappellatereviewprocess,
thePhilippines would havenoobjections iftheAppellate Body weretodecide toextend itsproceedings
beyond thestandard timelimits setoutintheDSU andintheWorking Procedures.