Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-skm99 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-28T01:00:15.824Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

WTO Upholds U.S. Section 301 Trade Authority As GATT-Consistent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

Sean D. Murphy
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 94 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 376 - 377
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2000

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 “Section 301” refers to the authorities contained in 19 U.S.C. §§2411-19 (1994).

2 Retaliation is mandatory for violations of U.S. rights under an international trade agreement. Retaliation is discretionary when the foreign state’s action is determined to be “unreasonable or discriminatory” and burdens or restricts U.S. commerce.

3 USTR, Table of Section 301 Cases (Aug. 19, 1999), available in <http://www.ustr.gov/reports/301report/act301.htm> .

4 See generally Warren Maruyama, Section 301 and the Appearance of Unilateralism, 11 MlCH.J. In t ’l L. 394 (1990); Alan O. Sykes, Constructive Unilateral Threats in International Commercial Relations: The Limited Case for Section 301, 23 Law & Pol’y Int’l Bus. 263 (1992).

5 United States-Sections 301-10 of the Trade Act of 1974, WTO Doc. WT/DS152/11 (Jan. 26, 1999). Several other states appeared as third parties in the dispute.

6 United States-Sections 301-310 of the Trade Act of 1974, WTO Doc. WT/DS152/R (Dec. 22, 1999).

7 Id., para. 7.131; see Joseph Kahn, U.S. Wins Round in Trade War with Europe, N.Y. TIMES, Dec. 23, 1999, at C2.