Dispute Settlement Reports

Introduction 3429(1) Factual Aspects 3430(1) Parties' Requests for Findings and Recommendations 3431(4) Argentina 3431(3) United States 3434(1) Arguments of the Parties 3435(1) Arguments of the Third Parties 3435(1) Interim Review 3435(5) Request of Argentina 3435(3) Request of the United States 3438(2) Findings 3440(95) General Issues 3440(2) Standard of Review 3440(1) Burden of Proof 3441(1) United States' Request for Preliminary Rulings 3442(15) Alleged Vagueness of Argentina's Request for Establishment 3443(1) Claims raised on page 4 of Argentina's panel request 3443(3) Section VILA of Argentina's first written submission and section III.A of its second written submission 3446(1) Section VII.B.2 of Argentina's first written submission 3447(1) Section VII.E.1 of Argentina's first written submission 3448(1) Section VIII.C.2 of Argentina's first written submission and section III.D.2 of its second written submission 3448(1) Section IX of Argentina's first written submission and section V of its second written submission 3449(1) Section X of Argentina's first written submission 3449(1) Section III.B of Argentina's second written submission 3450(1) Conclusion 3450(1) References to Articles 6 or 3 of the Anti-Dumping Agreement in sections B.1, B.2 and B.3 of the panel request 3451(2) Conclusion 3453(1) Certain Claims That Have Allegedly Not Been Raised in Argentina's Panel Request 3453(1) Argentina's claim challenging the US practice as such and as applied in the instant sunset review regarding the alleged irrefutable presumption in sunset reviews 3454(1) Argentina's claim regarding the alleged irrefutable presumption under US law as such 3455(1) Argentina's claim under Article X:3(a) of the GATT 1994 3455(1) Argentina's claim regarding the USITC's sunset determinations in the instant sunset review 3456(1) Argentina's consequential claims under Articles 1 and 18 of the Anti-Dumping Agreement, Article VI of the GATT 1994 and Article XVI:4 of the WTO Agreement 3456(1) Conclusion 3456(1) The Issue of Prejudice 3457(1) Claims Regarding US Law As Such 3457(39) Waiver Provisions under US Law 3457(1) Arguments of parties 3457(1) Argentina 3457(1) United States 3458(1) Arguments of third parties 3458(1) European Communities 3458(1) Japan 3458(1) Korea 3459(1) Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu 3459(1) Evaluation by the Panel 3459(1) Alleged Violations of Article 11.3 of the Agreement 3459(1) Measures at issue 3459(2) Nature of the obligations in Article 11.3 3461(1) Examination of the consistency of the waiver provisions 3462(4) Company-specific vs. order-wide sunset determinations 3466(1) Conclusion 3467(1) Alleged Violations of Articles 6.1 and 6.2 of the Agreement 3467(1) Applicability of Articles 6.1 and 6.2 to Sunset Reviews 3468(1) Nature of obligations under Articles 6.1 and 6.2 of the Agreement 3469(1) Examination of the consistency of the deemed waivers provisions 3470(3) Conclusion 3473(1) Alleged Irrefutable Presumption of Likelihood Under US Law/Practice 3473(1) Arguments of parties 3473(1) Argentina 3473(1) United States 3474(1) Arguments of third parties 3475(1) Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu 3475(1) Evaluation by the Panel 3475(1) Status of the Sunset Policy Bulletin 3475(3) Standard regarding presumptions 3478(1) Examination of the Measures Cited by Argentina 3479(1) The Statute and the Statement of Administrative Action 3480(3) The Sunset Policy Bulletin 3483(8) US Law's Standard for the Likelihood of Continuation or Recurrence of Injury Determinations in Sunset Reviews 3491(1) Arguments of parties 3491(1) Argentina 3491(1) United States 3491(1) Arguments of third parties 3491(1) Korea 3491(1) Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu 3491(1) Evaluation by the Panel 3491(5) Conclusion 3496(1) Claims Relating to the USDOC'S Likelihood Determination in the OCTG Sunset Review 3496(16) Arguments of Parties 3496(1) Argentina 3496(1) United States 3496(1) Arguments of Third Parties 3497(1) European Communities 3497(1) Evaluation by the Panel 3497(1) Relevant facts 3497(2) Alleged violations of Articles 11.3 and 2 of the Agreement 3499(4) Conclusion 3503(1) Alleged violations of Article 6 of the Agreement 3503(1) Nature of the obligations in Articles 6.1, 6.2, 6.8 and Annex II of the Agreement and their applicability in sunset reviews 3503(1) Examination of the consistency of the USDOC's determination with Articles 6.1 and 6.2 of the Agreement 3504(2) Conclusion 3506(1) Alleged violations of Article 6.8 and Annex II of the Agreement in the OCTG review 3506(3) Conclusion 3509(1) Alleged violations of Article 12 of the Agreement 3509(3) Conclusion 3512(1) Claims Relating to the USITC's Likelihood Determination in the OCTG Sunset Review 3512(22) Introduction 3512(1) Temporal Aspect of the USITC's Likelihood Determination 3512(1) Arguments of parties 3512(1) Argentina 3512(1) United States 3512(1) Evaluation by the Panel 3512(1) Conclusion 3513(1) Standard Applied by the USITC 3513(1) Arguments of parties 3513(1) Argentina 3513(1) United States 3514(1) Arguments of third parties 3514(1) European Communities 3514(1) Japan 3514(1) Evaluation by the Panel 3515(1) Applicability of Article 3 in sunset reviews 3515(3) Claims relating to the USITC's determinations regarding the likely volume of dumped imports, their likely price effect and their likely impact on the US domestic industry 3518(2) Likely volume of dumped imports 3520(4) Likely price effects of dumped imports 3524(2) Likely impact of dumped imports on the US industry 3526(2) Alleged violation of Article 3.4 of the Agreement 3528(1) Arguments of parties 3528(1) Argentina 3528(1) United States 3528(1) Arguments of third parties 3528(1) European Communities 3528(1) Japan 3529(1) Evaluation and conclusion by the Panel 3529(1) Alleged violation of Article 3.5 of the Agreement 3529(1) Arguments of parties 3529(1) Argentina 3529(1) United States 3529(1) Arguments of third parties 3529(1) European Communities 3529(1) Japan 3529(1) Evaluation and conclusion by the Panel 3530(1) Cumulation 3530(1) Arguments of parties 3530(1) Argentina 3530(1) United States 3530(1) Evaluation by the Panel 3530(4) Conclusion 3534(1) Consequential Claims Under the Anti-Dumping Agreement, the WTO Agreement and the GATT 3534(1) Arguments of Parties 3534(1) Argentina 3534(1) United States 3534(1) Evaluation and conclusion by the Panel 3535(1) Conclusions and Recommendations 3535