The United States advocates in the WTO for greater transparency in WTO dispute settlement proceedings. In addition to making U.S. submissions available, in every WTO dispute in which the United States participates, USTR requests that the panel meeting, appellate hearing, or arbitral meeting be open to public observation. Unfortunately, a number of WTO Members active in dispute settlement continue to oppose public observation of WTO dispute settlement meetings.
In its FTAs, the United States ensures that its FTA partners commit to dispute settlement meetings that are open to public observation and to make submissions to the dispute settlement panel publicly available. Non-governmental entities are also afforded the opportunity to submit requests to provide written views to a panel in a dispute.
Please find below a list of upcoming and past opportunities for public viewings of dispute settlement hearings and a list of upcoming and past opportunities to submit requests to provide written views to a panel in a dispute. As public viewings are generally offered in person or via closed circuit viewing, past recordings are not available for public viewing. Additional information related to a particular past hearing may be available on the WTO website.
Upcoming Opportunities to Request to Provide Written Views to a Panel in a Dispute:
• USMCA – Mexico GE Corn: Notice of Opportunity
Upcoming Hearings:
• USMCA – Mexico GE Corn
Hearings that Have Been Held:
WTO hearings
• United States – Large Civil Aircraft (Article 21.5 Appellate Proceedings, Second Session) (EU) (DS353)
• United States - Softwood Lumber Pricing Methodology (Canada) (DS534)
• United States - Countervailing Measures on Supercalendered Paper from Canada (DS505)
• EC - Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft (Article 21.5 Appellate Proceedings) (US) (DS316)
• United States - Measures Concerning the Importation, Marketing and Sale of Tuna and Tuna Products (Recourse to Article 22.6 of the DSU by Mexico) (DS381)
• United States – Conditional Tax Incentives for Large Civil Aircraft (EU) (DS487)
• United States – Certain Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) Requirements (Recourse to Article 22.6 of the DSU by Canada and Mexico) (DS384/DS386)
• United States – Certain Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) Requirements (Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by Canada and Mexico) (DS384/DS386) (appellate proceedings)
• United States – Certain Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) Requirements (Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by Canada and Mexico) (DS384/DS386)
• Unted States – Certain Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) Requirements (DS384 / DS386)
• United States - Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft (EU) (DS353)
• European Communities and Certain Member States – Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft (US) (DS316)
• European Communities – Measures Prohibiting the Importation and Marketing of Seal Products (Canada / Norway) (DS400/DS401)
• United States - Laws, Regulations And Methodology For Calculating Dumping Margins ("Zeroing") (Recourse to Article 22.6 of the DSU by the United States) (EU) (DS294)
• United States - Measures Relating to Zeroing and Sunset Reviews (Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by Japan) (DS322)
• European Communities and its member States - Tariff Treatment of Certain Information Technology Products (US, Japan, Taiwan) (DS375, DS376, DS377)
• United States - Laws, Regulations, and Methodology for Calculating Dumping Margins ("Zeroing") (Article 21.5) (EU) (DS294)
FTA hearings
• In the Matter of Guatemala – Issues relating to the obligations under Article 16.2.1(a) of the CAFTA-DR; CAFTA-DR dispute settlement panel (US)
• Softwood Lumber Arbitration (US / Canada)
• USMCA – Canada Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Administration II
• USMCA – US Auto Rules of Origin
• USMCA – US Solar Safeguard
• USMCA – Canada Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Administration
