WT/DS492/9  
G/L/1113/Add.1  
 
5 June 2019  
(19-3844) Page: 1/2 
  Original: English  
 
EUROPEAN UNION – MEASURES AFFECTING TARI FF CONCESSIONS  
ON CERTAIN POULTRY M EAT PRODUCTS  
NOTIFICATION OF A MU TUALLY AGREED SOLUTI ON 
The following communication, received on 30 May 2019 , from the delegation of China  and the 
delegation of the European Union  to the Chairperson of the Dispute Settlement Body, is circulated 
pursuant to Article  3.6 of the DSU.  
 
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The Government of the People's Republic of China and the European Union wish to notify the Dis pute 
Settlement Body that we have signed the attached notification of a Mutually Agreed Solution to the 
matters raised by China in the dispute "European Union – Measures Affecting Tariff Concessions on 
Certain Poultry Meat Products  (WT/DS492).  
 
We ask that  you circulate this notification and the attachment to the Dispute Settlement Body.  
 
 
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  WT/DS492/9 • G/L/1113/Add.1  
 
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NOTIFICATION OF A MU TUALLY AGREED SOLUTI ON 
The People 's Republic of China and the European Union wish to notify the Dispute Settlement Body, 
in accor dance with Article 3.6 of the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the 
Settlement of Disputes, that they have reached a mutually agreed solution to the matters raised by 
China in the dispute DS 492: "European Union — Measures Affecting Tariff Concessions on Certain 
Poultry Meat Products ". 
The People 's Republic of China and the European Union concluded an Agreement in the form of an 
Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the People's Republic of China in connection 
with DS492 "European Union — Measures Affecting Tariff Concessions on Certain Poultry Meat 
Products ". This Agreement was signed in Geneva on 30 November 2018. In order to settle the 
dispute, the European Union will grant market access for three specific processed pou ltry products 
in the form of tariff rate quotas (TRQs):  
•  a tariff rate quota of 6060 tonnes for the tariff line 1602.3929 (processed duck, geese, guinea 
fowl meat, cooked, containing 57% or more by weight of poultry meat or offal), which, in agreement 
with all the substantial supplying Members, is to be allocated 6000 tonnes to China and 60 tonnes 
to all others, having an in -quota duty rate of 10.9%;  
•  a tariff rate quota of 660 tonnes for the tariff line 1602.3985 (processed duck, geese, guinea fowl 
meat, cooked, containing less than 57% by weight of poultry meat or offal), which, in agreement 
with all the substantial supplying Members, is to be allocated 600 tonnes to China and 60 tonnes to 
all others, having an in -quota duty rate of 10.9%;  
•  an erg a omnes tariff rate quota of 5000 tonnes for the tariff line 1602.3219 (of fowls of the species 
Gallus domesticus, cooked, containing 57% or more by weight of poultry meat or offal), with an in -
quota duty rate of 8%.  
China and the European Union have notif ied each other of the completion of their internal procedures 
for the entry into force of this Agreement, respectively on 15 February 2019 and 18 March 2019. 
The Agreement enter ed into force 14 days after the date of receipt of the latest notification, nam ely 
on 1 April 2019. The European Union confirms it opened  the above -mentioned TRQs from th at date.1 
On this basis, China confirms that, with regard to DS492, it will neither request initiation of 
procedures pursuant to Article 21.5 of the DSU nor request suspension of concessions or other 
obligations pursuant to DSU Article 22.6, as long as the European Union is in compliance with all of 
its ob ligations under this Agreement.  
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1 See Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/398 of 8 March 2019  amending Regulation (EC) 
No 616/2007 as regards some additional tariff quotas in the sector of poultry meat and derogating from that 
Regulation for the quota year 2018/2019, OJ L 71, 13.3.2019, p. 18 –23. The European Union confirms this 
Regulation opened  the tariff rate quotas pursuant to the Agreement. It applies from 1  April 2019.