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The Saga Continues: An Update on the Banana Dispute and Its Procedural Offspring
1 Georgetown University Law Center, and Institute of International Economic Law at GULC 2 LL.M. (Georgetown), Institute of International Economic Law at GULC. Foreign Associate Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy LL.P.
The regulation adopted by the European Commission on 2 May 2001 may herald the end of the long-standing banana dispute. In its wake, the saga has left a long trail of panels, arbitration, and procedural battles. This article completes the ‘roadmap’ of the banana dispute and its progeny, by reporting on the following distinct matters: (i) US – Section 301–310 of the Trade Act of 1974; (ii) US – Import Measures on Certain Products from the EC; (iii) Ecuador – Recourse to Article 22.2 and 22.7 of the DSU (authorization to suspend concessions); (iv) Section 306 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by Section 407 of the Trade and Development Act of 2000 (carousel provision). It also provides a table that lists all the disputes that have been initiated since 1993 and that are related to the banana dispute.