APPELLATE BODY
ANNUAL
REPORT FOR 2017
FEBRUARY
2018
The Appellate Body
welcomes comments and inquiries
regarding this Annual Report at the
following address:
Appellate Body
Secretariat
World
Trade Organization
rue de Lausanne 154
1202 Geneva, Switzerland
e-mail: appellatebody.registry@wto.org
<https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/appellate_body_e.htm>
CONTENTS
FOREWORD................................................................................................................................ 6
1
Introduction.. 8
2 Composition of the Appellate Body. 11
3 Appeals. 13
3.1 Appellate Body Report, Russian Federation – Measures on the Importation of Live Pigs, Pork and
Other Pig Products from the European Union, WT/DS475/AB/R. 14
3.2 Appellate Body Report, United States – Certain Methodologies and Their Application to
Anti-Dumping Proceedings Involving China, WT/DS471/AB/R. 20
3.3 Appellate Body
Report, United States – Conditional Tax Incentives for Large Civil Aircraft,
WT/DS487/AB/R 31
3.4 Appellate Body
Report, European Union – Anti-Dumping Measures on
Imports of Certain Fatty Alcohols from Indonesia, WT/DS442/AB/R. 39
3.5 Appellate Body Report, Indonesia – Importation of Horticultural Products, Animals and Animal
Products, WT/DS477/AB/R and WT/DS478/AB/R. 46
4 Participants and Third Participants in
Appeals. 57
5 Procedural issues arising in appeals. 58
6 Arbitrations under Article 21.3(c)
of the DSU.. 62
7 Other activities. 67
ANNEXES
Annex 1.. Speech by Appellate Body Chair Ujal Singh Bhatia on 8 June 2017........................... 69
Annex 2 Background note on Rule 15 of the Working Procedures for Appellate Body
Review – Communication from the Appellate Body........................................................................................... 74
Annex 3.. Program – WTO@20
Conference, New Delhi............................................................. 76
Annex 4.. Members of the Appellate Body................................................................................ 79
Annex 5.. Former Appellate Body members and chairpersons................................................. 83
Annex 6.. Appeals Filed: 1995-2017......................................................................................... 85
Annex 7.. Percentage of Panel Reports appealed
by year of adoption: 1996-2017................... 87
Annex 8.. WTO agreements addressed in Appellate Body reports
circulated: 1996-2017........ 88
Annex 9.. Participants and third participants in appeals: 1996-2017......................................... 90