10.6 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC MATERIALS

10.6.1 General form for official documents of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Element	Title	Document number	Date	Description of the document	Pinpoint reference
Example	United States – Safeguard Measures on Imports of Fresh, Chilled or Frozen Lamb Meat from New Zealand and Australia	WT/DS177/AB/R,	1 May 2001	(Report of the Appellate body)	at [21]

Where an annex to a WTO document is effectively a document in its own right, provide a reference to the annex and give its title in round brackets following the citation to the main document. Note that the following example includes an optional reference tag: see rule 1.1.7(c).

10.6.2 General form for official documents of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

Element	Title	Supplement number	Report series	Page number	GATT document number	Date of document	Description of the document	Pinpoint reference
Examples	United States - Denial of Most -Favoured-Nation Treatment as to Non-Rubber Footwear from Brazil	39th Supp	GATT BISD	128,	DS18/R,	10 January 1992	(Report by the Panel Adopted on 19 June 1992)	at [4.20]
	Generalized System of Preferences				L/7073,	4 September 1992	(Notification by New Zealand)	at 3

The principal decisions, resolutions, recommendations and reports adopted by the GATT contracting parties are reported in the Basic Instruments and Selected Documents, the abbreviation of which is “GATT BISD”. If a document is reported in the GATT BISD, include the citation to that report, including the supplement number and the starting page number. After the citation to the GATT BISD include the GATT document number.

If a document was not reported in the GATT BISD, give only the GATT document number.