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World Trade Organization:Report of the Appellate Body on the European Communities Regime for the Importation, Sale, and Distribution of Bananas

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International Legal Materials , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 243 - 246
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1998

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* [The Report of the Appellate body on the European Communities Regime for the Importation, Sale, and Distribution of Bananas was provided by the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization.

[Due to space limitations, we have reproduced only the introductory paragraphs and the Findings and Conclusions section of this Appellate Body Report.

[For additional information, contact the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization, 154 Rue Lausanne, 1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland (tel.: 41.22.739.50.46 or fax: 41.22.739.57.86).]

1 Complaint by Ecuador. WT7DS27/R/ECU; Complaint by Guatemala and Honduras. WT/DS27/R/GTM. WT/DS27/R/HND;Complaint by Mexico. WT7DS27/R/MEX; Complaint by the United States. WT/DS27/R/USA. 22 May 1997.

2 Official Journal, No. L 47. 25 February 1993. p. 1.

3 The following terms are used throughout this Report:

  • “ACP States” refers to the African, Caribbean and Pacific States which are parties to the Fourth ACP-EC Convention of Lome (the “Lomé Convention”), signed in Lome. 15 December 1989, as revised by the Agreement signed in Mauritius, 4 November 1995:

  • “traditional ACP Stales” refers to the 12 ACP Sates, listed in die Annex to Regulation 404/93, which have traditionally exported bananas to the European Communities; these are Cdte d'lvoire, Cameroon. Suriname. Somalia, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Gierjadines,Dominica. Belize, Cape Verde, Grenada and Madagascar:

  • “traditional ACP bananas” refers to the quantities of bananas, exported by the traditional ACP Slates, up to the quantities of bananas set out in the Annex to Regulation 404/93;

  • “non-traditional ACP bananas” refers to me quantiries of bananas exported by the traditional ACP States in excess of the quantities of bananas set out in the Annex to Regulation 404/93, and to the quantities of bananas exported by banana-producing ACP States other than traditional ACP States;

  • “third-country bananas” refers to the quantities of bananas exported by non-ACP States to the European Communities.