GATT provides a time frame for the implementation of panel recommendations. This
recognizes the time it may take a member state to make the necessary changes to its
domestic law in implementing the recommendations. Paragraph I.2 of the 1989 Decision
provides that “[i]f it is impracticable to comply immediately with the recommendations or rulings, the contracting party concerned shall have a reasonable period of time in
which to do so.”23 For instance, the US government requested a reasonable period of
time to repeal its domestic law, Section 104 of the United States Defense Production
Act.24