Article III: National Treatment on Internal Taxation & Regulation

Members may not use internal measures to discriminate between domestic goods and
those imported from Members; that is to say that imports from Members are accorded
National Treatment.

Article X: Publication & Administration of Trade Regulations

All trade measures of Members should be published and therefore transparent.

Article XI: General Elimination of Quantitative Restrictions

Trade restrictions should be in the form of duties, taxes and other charges whether
effective through quotas, import and export licences and other measures, ultimately
requiring the tariffication of all quantitative restrictions. All new trade measures to be
in the form of tariffs.
Article III*: National Treatment on Internal Taxation and Regulation
1.
The contracting parties recognize that internal taxes and other internal charges, and
laws, regulations and requirements affecting the internal sale, offering for sale, purchase,
transportation, distribution or use of products, and internal quantitative regulations
requiring the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions,
should not be applied to imported or domestic products so as to afford protection to
domestic production.*

2.
The products of the territory of any contracting party imported into the territory of any
other contracting party shall not be subject, directly or indirectly, to internal taxes or other
internal charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like domestic
products. Moreover, no contracting party shall otherwise apply internal taxes or other
internal charges to imported or domestic products in a manner contrary to the principles set
forth inparagraph 1.*
Article X: Publication and Administration of Trade Regulations
1.
Laws, regulations, judicial decisions and administrative rulings of general application,
made effective by any contracting party, pertaining to the classification or the valuation of
products for customs purposes, or to rates of duty, taxes or other charges, or to
requirements, restrictions or prohibitions on imports or exports or on the transfer of
payments therefor, or affecting their sale, distribution, transportation, insurance,
warehousing inspection, exhibition, processing, mixing or other use, shall be published
promptly in such a manner as to enable governments and traders to become acquainted with
them. Agreements affecting international trade policy which are in force between the
government or a governmental agency of any contracting party and the government or
governmental agency of any other contracting party shall also be published. The provisions
of this paragraph shall not require any contracting party to disclose confidential information
which would impede law enforcement or otherwise be contrary to the public interest or
would prejudice the legitimate commercial interests of particular enterprises, public or
private.

2.
No measure of general application taken by any contracting party effecting an advance
in a rate of duty or other charge on imports under an established and uniform practice, or

imposing a new or more burdensome requirement, restriction or prohibition on imports, or

on the transfer of payments there for, shall be enforced before such measure has been
officially published.

3.
(a)
Each contracting party shall administer in a uniform, impartial and reasonable
manner all its laws, regulations, decisions and rulings of the kind described in paragraph 1 of
this Article.

Article XI*: General Elimination of Quantitative Restrictions

1.
No prohibitions or restrictions other than duties, taxes or other charges, whether made
effective through quotas, import or export licences or other measures, shall be instituted or
maintained by any contracting party on the importation of any product of the territory of
any other contracting party or on the exportation or sale for export of any product destined
for the territory of any other contracting party.

Article XX: General Exceptions

Permission for non-arbitrary and non-discriminatory measures against certain imports
for reasons including: public moral grounds; health; prison labour; and national
historic/cultural treasures.

DSU
Article 21: Surveillance of Implementation of Recommendations
and Rulings
3. (c)
a period of time determined through binding arbitration within 90 days after the date of
adoption of the recommendations and rulings.(12) In such arbitration, a guideline for the
arbitrator(13) should be that the reasonable period of time to implement panel or Appellate Body
recommendations should not exceed 15 months from the date of adoption of a panel or Appellate
Body report. However, that time may be shorter or longer, depending upon the particular
circumstances.
5. Where there is disagreement as to the existence or consistency with a covered agreement of
measures taken to comply with the recommendations and rulings such dispute shall be decided
through recourse to these dispute settlement procedures, including wherever possible resort to the
original panel. The panel shall circulate its report within 90 days after the date of referral of the
matter to it. When the panel considers that it cannot provide its report within this time frame, it
shall inform the DSB in writing of the reasons for the delay together with an estimate of the period
within which it will submit its report.