EUROPEAN UNION – MEASURES AFFECTING TARIFF CONCESSIONS ON CERTAIN POULTRY MEAT PRODUCTS NOTIFICATION OF A MUTUALLY AGREED SOLUTION
Document: NOTIFICATION OF A MUTUALLY AGREED SOLUTION
Date: 5 June 2019
Document codes: WT/DS492/9; G/L/1113/Add.1
Complainant: China
Respondent: EU
Third parties: Brazil, Russia, U.S., Argentina, Canada, India, Thailand
Dispute stage: Mutually Agreed Solution
Agreements cited: Art. XXVIII, XIII, XIII:2, II:1, II:2, I:1  GATT 1994

EUROPEAN UNION – MEASURES AFFECTING TARIFF CONCESSIONS
ON CERTAIN POULTRY MEAT PRODUCTS
NOTIFICATION OF A MUTUALLY AGREED SOLUTION
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.

The Government of the People's Republic of China and the European Union wish to notify the Dispute
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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NOTIFICATION OF A MUTUALLY AGREED SOLUTION
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 erga 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 notified 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 entered into force 14 days after the date of receipt of the latest notification, namely
on 1 April 2019. The European Union confirms it opened the above-mentioned TRQs from that 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 obligations under this Agreement.
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.