Indonesia requests WTO to allow suspension of tariff concessions for failure to implement clove cigarette ruling

On 13 August 2013, the WTO circulated a document from the Government of Indonesia the Chairperson of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) requesting DSB authorization to suspend the application to the United States of tariff concessions and related obligations because the US failed to bring its ban on flavored cigarettes into compliance, by 24 July 2013, with the TBT Agreement or to otherwise comply with the recommendations and rulings of the DSB in “United States – Measures Affecting the Production and Sale of Clove Cigarettes (DS406).”

The suspension of concessions and other obligations requested by Indonesia would consist of one or more of the following:

(1) suspension of tariff concessions and other related obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 on a list of US products to be established in due course;
(2) suspension of concessions and other obligations under the TBT Agreement; and,
(3) suspension of concessions and other obligations under the Agreement on Import Licensing.