Source document
DS265: European Communities — Export Subsidies on Sugar (dispute summary)
Has everything in it been taken?
Context onlyReviewed 8 Oct 2026
Reviewed. Nothing in it belongs in the tables; it is cited for background.
What the document holds
WTO Secretariat dispute summary of DS265 (EC sugar export subsidies), consultations 2002 to the 8 June 2006 understandings: complainants' claims (approximately 1.6 million tons of subsidised sugar a year; almost 2 million tonnes declassification), St Kitts and Nevis among ACP countries joining consultations and reserving third-party rights, panel and AB findings, 12 months and 3 days compliance period to 22 May 2006. Context for St Kitts and Nevis' sugar decline only; no numbers about any investment-migration programme. The six dated events taken from it are already in the data.
What it supports
7 rows on this site come from this document. Each one opens with the page and the exact words.
Citizenship by investment
Timeline (2)
- St Kitts and Nevis joins the EU sugar subsidy case8 Sep 2003ContextSt Kitts and Nevis
- Australia and Brazil challenge EU sugar subsidies at trade body27 Sep 2002ContextSeveral countries: Australia, Brazil, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Colombia, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Fiji, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, St Kitts and Nevis, Eswatini, Zimbabwe
Residence by investment
Timeline (5)
- EU given until May 2006 to fix sugar subsidies28 Oct 2005LegalSeveral countries: Australia, Brazil, Thailand
- Trade body formally adopts ruling against EU sugar subsidies19 May 2005LegalSeveral countries: Australia, Brazil, Thailand
- Trade panel rules EU broke sugar export rules15 Oct 2004LegalSeveral countries: Australia, Brazil, Thailand
- Thailand joins the challenge against EU sugar subsidies14 Mar 2003ContextSeveral countries: Thailand
- Australia and Brazil challenge EU sugar subsidies at trade body27 Sep 2002ContextSeveral countries: Australia, Brazil, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Colombia, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Fiji, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, St Kitts and Nevis, Eswatini, Zimbabwe
About the document
What it covers Chronology of DS265/266/283 from consultations (2002) to the 2006 understandings; panel and Appellate Body findings.
Notes Secretariat summary "for general information only". Page is undated; last event it records is 8 June 2006, so published_date is an approximation.
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