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Ambassador Carlos Pérez del Castillo (Uruguay)
K ARTICLE 64.3
146. The representative of Mexico thanked Canada for its contribution and the Secretariat for its comprehensive document on the antecedents and the provisions concerning non-violation and the experience that there had been with it in practice to date in GATT and the WTO. Her delegation had noted that there had been very few non-violation complaints. The content of the document appeared useful in that it provided references for the review that the Council had to complete as required by Article 64.3, above all with respect to the parameters and remedies for these complaints. It would be interesting to study them more closely. Her delegation believed that the Council had to initiate a serious review of those parameters and those concepts which had been pointed out, such as "benefit" and "reasonable expectations", before it could make a well-informed decision on the future of this provision. She asked the Secretariat to distribute the Spanish version of its paper as soon as possible.
IP/C/M/22