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Unsuccessful Challenge to Department of State Shrimp-Turtle Guidelines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 97 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 691 - 692
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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References

1 Appellate Body Report, United States—Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products, WT/DS58/ AB/R (Oct. 12,1998) (adopted, with modifications, Nov. 6,1998) [hereinafter Appellate Body Report]. For a discussion of the case, see 93 AJIL 507 (1999).

2 See Pub. L. No. 101–162, §609,103 Stat. 988, 1037–38 (1989) (codified at 16 U.S.C. §1537 note (2000)).

3 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Oct. 30, 1947, TIAS 1700, 55 UNTS 187.

4 Id., Art. XX(b),(g).

5 Appellate Body Report, supra note 1. para. 187(c). Article XX of the GATT requires that the environmental and conservation measures be nondiscriminatory and nonarbitrary.

6 Id., para. 165.

7 Id.

8 See Revised Guidelines for the Implementation of Section 609 of Public Law 101–162 Relating to the Protection of Sea Turtles in Shrimp Trawl Fishing Operations, 64 Fed. Reg. 36, 946 (1999).

9 See Panel Report, United States—Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products—Recourse to Article 21.5 by Malaysia, WT/DS58/RW (June 15, 2001) (adopted Nov. 21, 2001).

10 See Appellate Body Report, United States—Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products—Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by Malaysia, WT/DS58/AB/RW (Oct. 22, 2001) (adopted Nov. 26, 2001), reprinted in 41 ILM 149 (2002). For a discussion of the case, see 96 AJIL 685 (2002).

11 Turtle Island Restoration Network, 110 F.Supp.2d 1005 (Ct. Int’l Trade 2000).

12 Turtle Island Restoration Network v. Evans, 284 F.3d 1282 (Fed. Cir. 2002).

13 Id. at 1297.

14 Turde Island Restoration Network v. Evans, 123 S.Ct. 1748 (2003).