WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism(2)/刘成伟(67)
The conclusion that benefits accruing from concessions granted during successive rounds of tariff negotiations may separately give rise to reasonable expectations of improved market access is consistent with past panel reports. The panel in EEC - Canned Fruit found that the United States had a reasonable expectation arising from the EEC's 1974 tariff concessions pursuant to Article XXIV:6 negotiations and 1979 Tokyo Round tariff concessions (even though the panel separately found that the United States could have anticipated certain subsidies in respect of the Tokyo Round tariff concessions). And the EEC - Oilseeds panel found that the United States had a reasonable expectation arising from the EEC's 1962 Dillon Round tariff concessions. As the United States points out, these findings would not have been possible if subsequent multilateral tariff agreements or enlargement agreements were deemed to extinguish wholesale the tariff concessions in prior tariff schedules.
The following quotation from the EEC - Oilseeds panel report appears to us to be particularly on point: