RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/ADP/W/240
G/SCM/W/250
ORGANIZATION 5December 1995
(95-3950)
Original: English Committee onAnti-Dumping Practices
Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE NOTIFICATIONS PROVIDED
BYJAPAN1OFLAWS AND REGULATIONS
UNDER ARTICLES 18.5AND 32.6OFTHE AGREEMENTS
Thefollowing communication, hasbeenreceived on4December 1995 from thePermanent
Mission ofIndia.
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Question 1
Article 6.1oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement while defining "interested parties" includes
governmentoftheexportingMember.Similarly,Article12oftheSCMAgreementrequiresinvestigating
authorities tonotify interested Members oftheinformation required forinvestigation. Wehavenot
beenabletolocate corresponding provisions intheJapanese lawsandregulations, although, "interested
parties fordomestic industry" havebeendefined inArticle 5oftheAnti-Dumping Cabinet Order and
Article 5oftheCountervailing DutyCabinet Order requires notification to"directly interested persons"
whichdoesnotincludetheinterestedMembers.Itmaybeclarifiedwhetherprovisionsexistfornotifying
totheconcerned governments before initiation ofanti-dumping investigations orcountervailing duty
investigations.
question 2
Article 13.1oftheSCM Agreement makes itmandatory thatMembers, theproducers ofwhich
maybesubject toinvestigations initiated asperArticle 11shallbenotified forconsultations. The
Japanese lawandregulations donotappear toreflect thisprovision. Thismaybeclarified.
Question 3
Article 4oftheAnti-Dumping Cabinet Order defines theterm"industry inJapan" asreferring
totheproducers inJapan whose collective output ofthelikeproducts constitutes morethanasubstantial
proportion ofthetotaldomestic production ofthelikeproducts. Article 4oftheAnti-Dumping
Agreement defines domestic industry asreferring tothedomestic producers asawhole ofthelike
products ortothose ofthem whose collective output oftheproducts constitutes amajor proportion
ofthetotaldomestic production ofthose products. Itmaybeclarified whether thewords "substantial
proportion" mean atleastamajor proportion i.e.morethan50percentofthetotaldomestic production.
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