./.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SCM/Q3/SLV/9 
18 October 2004  
 
(04-4251) 
Committee on Subsidies 
and Countervailing Measures Original:   Spanish 
 
 
 
SUBSIDIES 
 
Requests Pursuant to Article 27.4 of the Agreement  
on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  
 
Replies by El Salvador to the Questions Posed  
by the EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES1 
   The following communication, dated 1 September 2004, has been received from the 
delegation of El Salvador. 
 
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  I refer to your communication of September last  by which you forwarded to this Mission the 
questions put by the European Communities to El Salvador concerning the notification under 
Article 27.4 of the Agreement on Su bsidies and Countervailing Measures. 
  Please find attached hereto the answers to those questions. 
                                                     
 
1 G/SCM/Q3/SLV/8. G/SCM/Q3/SLV/9 
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Export Processing Zones and Marketing Act, as Amended
 
 
 Please indicate what consideration has been given to the phasing out of this programme, 
given that the benefits of the programme exte nd throughout the period in which the firm 
engages in operations in El Salvador and that th e transitional period for the elimination of 
export subsidies provided for in docume nt G/SCM/39 expires at the end of 2007. 
 
 We are in the process of conducting studies on the matter because, as we have already 
indicated many times, these incentives are economic and social development schemes, which are of 
vital importance to the attainment of our proper and legitimate goal of ensuring the welfare of our 
population by attracting investment able to generate more employment opportunities. 
 
Export Reactivation Programme  
 
 Please indicate what consideration has been given to the implementation of 
El Salvador's "firm intention" to phase out of this programme by the end of 2005 as recorded in 
the Committee's decision G/SCM/99. 
 
 We are in the process of conducting studies on the matter because, as we have already 
indicated many times, these incentives are economic and social development schemes, which are of 
vital importance to the attainment of our proper and legitimate goal of ensuring the welfare of our 
population by attracting investment able to generate more employment opportunities. 
 
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