DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
DS: United States — Additional Duties on Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts from Canada
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Complaint by Canada
On 3 April 2025, Canada requested consultations with the United States with respect to measures imposing 25% tariffs on automobiles and automobile parts. These tariffs were in addition to any other duties, fees, exactions, and charges imposed by the United States.
Canada claimed that the challenged measures appear to be inconsistent with Articles II:1(a), II:1(b), and VIII:3 of the GATT 1994.
On 11 April 2025, the United States requested the Chair of the DSB to circulate to Members a communication where it indicated that the United States accepted Canada's request to enter into consultations, without prejudice to the US view that the challenged tariffs were issues of national security not susceptible to review or capable of resolution by WTO dispute settlement, or whether each of the items in Canada's request for consultations constituted a “measure” within the meaning of Article 4 of the DSU.
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