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- Frontmatter
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- Foreword to the 1995–2013 edition
- List of Abbreviations for Parts I and II
- Part I Appellate Body Reports
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- PART II Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU
- Annexes
- Abbreviations used in the Table of References to the Covered Agreements and Other Instruments and in the Indexes
- Table of References to the Covered Agreements and Other Instruments by Article
- Subject Index
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- Subject Index by Case (Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU)
A
from Part I - Appellate Body Reports
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents (outline)
- Contents
- Foreword to the 1995–2013 edition
- List of Abbreviations for Parts I and II
- Part I Appellate Body Reports
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- PART II Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU
- Annexes
- Abbreviations used in the Table of References to the Covered Agreements and Other Instruments and in the Indexes
- Table of References to the Covered Agreements and Other Instruments by Article
- Subject Index
- Subject Index by Case (Appellate Body Reports)
- Subject Index by Case (Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU)
Summary
Accession Protocols
A.0.1 China's Accession Protocol
A.0.1.1 China – Auto Parts, para. 214
(WT/DS339/AB/R, WT/DS340/AB/R, WT/DS342/AB/R)
The Panel proceeded, therefore, on the basis that the commitment made by China in paragraph 93 of its Accession Working Party Report is enforceable in WTO dispute settlement proceedings and should be interpreted in accordance with the customary rules of interpretation as codified in Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention. Neither of these propositions has been disputed at any point in these proceedings, including in this appeal.
A.0.1.2 China–Publications and Audiovisual Products, paras. 194–196
(WT/DS363/AB/R)
…[A] measure can regulate both goods and services and …, as a result, the same measure can be subject to obligations affecting trade in goods and obligations affecting trade in services. This does not necessarily mean that the same measure would also be subject to China's trading rights commitments, because a measure regulating goods may not affect who has the right to trade those goods. In this dispute, however, it is uncontested that Article 30 of the Film Regulation restricts who may engage in the importation of films. The issue raised by China's appeal is whether what is imported by the entity designated under Article 30 is a good. In other words, in this dispute, the applicability of China's trading rights commitments to Article 30 of the Film Regulation depends on the issue of whether that provision regulates goods.…
We do not see the clear distinction drawn by China between “content” and “goods”. Neither do we consider that content and goods, and the regulation thereof, are mutually exclusive. Content can be embodied in a physical carrier, and the content and carrier together can form a good. …
Moreover, as the Panel properly found, China's trading rights commitments refer to the right to trade in “all good”.
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- WTO Appellate Body Repertory of Reports and Awards1995–2013, pp. 3 - 317Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014