The United States proposed 15 months as a reasonable amount of time needed to implement the recommendations of the DSB and, after some arbitration, the DSB and EC accepted the time period. The US, however, failed to bring the law into the bounds of the TRIPs Agreement within the deadline, and the European Communities pressured the DSB to "suspend concessions". As both the EC and the third party Australia bemoaned the United States' slow progress, the US continually reported that its delegation was working with Congress to enact the settlement.