WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/ADP/N/1/USA/1/Suppl.6
G/SCM/N/1/USA/1/Suppl.6
18 October 2002
(02-5723)
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  English
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS
UNDER ARTICLES 18.5 AND 32.6 OF THE AGREEMENTS
UNITED STATES
Supplement
The following communication, dated 18 October 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the United States.
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Pursuant to Part 1, Section 15(c), of the Prot ocol on the Accession of the People’s Republic of
China, the United States hereby notifies to the Committee on Anti-dumping Practices its
methodologies for determining price comparabil ity with respect to products from non-market
economy countries. The law and regulations pertaining to such methodologies were previously
notified to the Committee on March 16, 1995 and July 30, 1997, respectively.1
In particular, the United States notifies the following specific provisions of its previously-
notified statute and regulations:
• 19 U.S.C. §1677b(c) – calculation of normal value with respect to non-market
economy countries;
• 19 C.F.R. §351.107(d) – rates in anti-dumping proceedings involving non-market
economy countries;
• 19 C.F.R. §351.202(b)(7)(i)(C) – requiring, in non-market economy country cases,
that the petition include factual information relevant to the calculation of normalvalue using a method described in 19 C.F.R. §351.408;
• 19 C.F.R. §351.204(b)(1) – period of investigation will normally be the two most
recently completed fiscal quarters in a non-market economy country anti-dumping
investigation;  and
• 19 C.F.R. §351.408 – calculation of normal value of merchandise from non-market
economy countries.
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1See G/ADP/N/1/USA/1, G/SCM/N/1/USA/1 (10 April 1995), G/ADP/N/1/USA/1/Suppl.2 and
G/SCM/N/1/USA/1/Suppl.2 (25 August 1997).