WORLD TRADE WT/DS24/5
15November 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-4829)
Original: English
UNITED STATES -RESTRICTIONS ONIMPORTS OFCOTTON
AND MAN-MADE FIBRE UNDERWEAR
Notification ofanAppeal byCosta Ricaunder
paragraph 4ofArticle 16oftheUnderstanding onRules
andProcedures Governing theSettlement ofDisputes (DSU)
Thefollowing notification, dated 11November 1996, sentbyCosta RicatotheDispute
Settlement Body (DSB), iscirculated toMembers. Onthesame day,aNotice ofAppeal wasfiled
withtheAppellate Body pursuant totheWorking Procedures forAppellate Review.
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Pursuant toArticle 16oftheUnderstanding onRules andProcedures Governing theSettlement
ofDisputes (DSU) andRule20oftheWorking Procedures forAppellate Review, Costa Ricahereby
notifies itsdecision toappeal totheAppellate Body certain issues oflawcovered inthereport of
thePanel onUnited States -Restrictions onImports ofCotton andMan-made Fibre Underwear and
certain legalinterpretations developed bythePanel.
Costa Ricaseeks review bytheAppellate Body ofthePanel'slegalreasoning onthequestion
ofthedateofapplication oftheimport restrictions imposed bytheUnited States. Intheview of
Costa Rica, thePanel erredinlawwhen itinterpreted theprovisions ofArticles 2and6oftheAgreement
onTradeinTextilesandClothing(ATC)andofArticleXIIIoftheGATT1994topermitWTOMembers
tomake animport restraint under theATC'ssafeguard provisions effective asfromadatepreceding
thedateonwhich therestraint wasapplied inaccordance withArticle 6:10oftheATC.