WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/DS126/11
G/SCM/D20/2
31 July 2000
(00-3138)
Original:  English
AUSTRALIA – SUBSIDIES PROVIDED TO PRODUCERS AND EXPORTERS OF
AUTOMOTIVE LEATHER
Notification of Mutually Agreed Solution
The following communication, dated 24 July 2000, from the Permanent Mission of the
United States and the Permanent Mission of Australia to the Chairman of the Dispute SettlementBody, is circulated pursuant to Article 3.6 of the DSU.
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The Governments of the United States and Australia wish to notify the Dispute Settlement
Body (DSB) that they have reached a mutually satisfactory solution in regard to implementation of the
findings in the Panel Report "Australia – Subsidies Provided to Producers and Exporters of
Automotive Leather" (WT/DS126), Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by the United States,
adopted by the DSB on 11 February 2000.
The mutually satisfactory solution involves:
- payment of $A 7.2 million to the Australian Government by the company found to have been
receiving assistance provided in a manner inconsistent with Australia's WTO obligations;
- removal of automotive leather from eligibility for support under certain Australian industry
assistance programmes available to the textiles, clothing and footwear sector and the
automotive sector, and a prohibition on other subsidies, either direct or indirect, that are
related to or benefit the manufacture, sale or distribution of automotive leather for a period of
12 years;
- suspension of certain custom duties on a most favoured nation basis, with effect from
1 July 2000
1;
- binding arbitration in the event of a dispute over the implementation or application of the
mutually satisfactory solution.
                                                     
1 The tariff lines eligible for a suspension of custom duties are listed in the attachment to this
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Attachment A
Automotive Leather Subsidies
Understanding between the
Government of the United States of America
and the
Government of Australia
Temporary Reductions in Tariff Rates
HS Code Brief Description
2905.12.00 Saturated monohydric alcohols:
  - propan-1-ol (propyl alcohol) and propan-2-ol (isopropyl alcohol)
2915.60.00  Butyric acids, valeric acids, their salts and esters
4011.30.00 New pneumatic tyres, of rubber:
  - of a kind used on aircraft
4014.10.00 Hygienic or pharmaceutical articles of vulcanised rubber other than
hard rubber
  - sheath contraceptives
7013.10.00  Glassware of a kind used for table, kitchen, toilet, office, indoor
decoration or similar purposes (other than that of 7010 or 7018)
  - of glass-ceramics
8211.93.00 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning
knives), other than knives of 8208, and blades therefor:
  - knives having other than fixed blades
8407.21.00 Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston
engines:
  - marine propulsion engines:
    -- outboard motors
8419.60.00 Machinery for liquefying air or other gases
8475.21.00  Machines for manufacturing or hotworking glass or glassware
  - machines for making optical fibres and preforms thereofWT/DS126/11
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8506.10.00 Primary cells and primary batteries
  - manganese dioxide
8506.40.00 Primary cells and primary batteries
  - silver oxide
8506.50.00 Primary cells and primary batteries
  - lithium
8509.30.00  Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained
electric motor
  - kitchen waste disposers
8509.40.00 Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained
electric motor
  - food grinders and mixers; fruit or vegetable juice extractors
8509.80.00  Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained
electric motor
  - other appliances
8510.20.00 Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-
contained electric motors
  - hair clippers
8516.50.00 Microwave ovens
8520.32.90 Other magnetic tape recorders incorporating sound reproducing
apparatus
  - digital audio type, other than dictating machines
    -- other
8528.21.00 Video monitors
   - colour
8528.30.00 Video projectors
8539.21.00 Other filament lamps, excluding ultra-violet or infra-red lamps
  - tungsten halogenWT/DS126/11
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9008.40.00 Photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers
9010.10.00 Apparatus and equipment for automatically developing
photographic (including cinematographic) film or paper in rolls or
for automatically exposing developed film to rolls of photographic
paper
9010.50.10 Other apparatus and equipment for photographic (including
cinematographic) laboratories; negatoscopes
  - layout tables, photographic silver recovery apparatus; vacuum
    framers
9010.50.20 Other apparatus and equipment for photographic (including
cinematographic) laboratories; negatoscopes
  - apparatus and equipment for the processing of sensitised film or
    paper, not including goods of 9010.50.10
9503.10.00 Electric trains, including tracks, signals and other accessories
thereof
9503.20.00 Reduced-size ("scale") model assembly kits, whether or not
working models, excluding those of 9503.10.00
9503.80.00  Other toys and models, incorporating a motor
9506.11.00 Snow-skis and other snow-ski equipment
  - Skis
9617.00.00 Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases;
parts thereof other than glass inners
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