RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE WT/DS22/1
G/SCM/D1/1
G/L/57
G/AG/W/15
ORGANIZATION 20December 1995
(95-4043)
Original: English
BRAZIL -MEASURES AFFECTING DESICCATED COCONUT
Request forConsultations bythePhilippines
Thefollowing communication, dated 27November 1995, fromthePermanent Mission ofthe
Philippines tothePermanent Mission ofBrazil wasnotified totheDispute Settlement Body andis
circulated attherequest ofthePermanent Mission ofthePhilippines inaccordance withArticle 4.4
oftheDSU.
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InconnectionwiththecountervailingdutyimposedbyBrazilonPhilippine'sexportsofdesiccated
coconut, Iwishtorequest formal consultations withBrazil under Article XXIII:1 ofGATT 1994.
IunderstandthatBrazilhasreservationaboutourrecoursetoWTOdisputesettlementprocedures.
ItistheviewofthePhilippines thatprovisions oftheTokyo Round Agreement ontheInterpretation
andApplication ofArticles VI,XVIandXXIII oftheGATT (Tokyo Round Agreement), arean
elaboration ofthefundamental obligations ofArticle VIofGATT 1947, andthatthese fundamental
obligations subsist under GATT 1994.
Furthermore, thePhilippines wishes torefer Brazil toparagraph 2(a)oftheDecision of
8December 1994 bythePreparatory Committee fortheWTO withrespect totheTransitional Co-
Existence oftheAgreement ontheInterpretation andApplication ofArticles VI,XVIandXXIII of
theGeneral Agreement onTariffs andTrade andtheMarrakesh Agreement Establishing theWorld
Trade Organization.1
Intheconsultations werequest, wewould liketostate ourposition withrespect tothe
inconsistency ofBrazil 'scountervailing dutyonPhilippine 'sexports ofdesiccated coconut products
with, interalia,paragraphs 3and6(a)ofArticle VIofGATT 1994, withtheendinviewofarriving
atamutually agreed solution.
Finally, notwithstanding thisrequest forconsultations under Article XXIII:1, Iwishtoreserve
ourrights under theTokyo Round Agreement.
1Seedocument PC/15-L/7586.