RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/ADP/W/94
G/SCM/W/103
ORGANIZATION 13October 1995
(95-3042)
Original: English Committee onAnti-Dumping Practices
Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE NOTIFICATIONS PROVIDED
BYTHE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES1OFLAWS AND
REGULATIONS UNDER ARTICLES 18.5AND 32.6THE AGREEMENTS
Thefollowing communication, dated 2October 1995, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Mission ofBrazil.
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1. Please clarify which calculation procedures willbefollowed incases when itisconsidered
thatanti-dumping duties arebeing borne bytheexporter (Article 2.9(b)ofCouncil Regulation (EC)
No.3283/94). What isthelegal basis forsuchprocedures interms oftheWTO Agreement on
Implementation ofArticle VIoftheGATT 1994 (hereinafter referred toasAgreement onAnti-
Dumping)?
2. Please clarify andprovide details oftheprocedures onregistration ofimports subject toanti-
dumping investigations. Please specify thecustoms procedures involved insuchpractice.
3. Please explain whatisthelegalbasis, interms oftheWTO Agreement onAnti-Dumping, for
theprocedure established under Article 2.1(a)ofCouncil Regulation (EC) No.3283/94.
4. HowdoestheECintend tointerpret, inpractice, theterms "within anextended period oftime"
and"within areasonable period oftime" inArticle 2.4ofCouncil Regulation (EC) No.3283/94?
What isthefrequency oftransactions tobeexamined?
5. HowdoestheECexplain itsdefinition of"theCommunity industry" inArticle 4.1ofCouncil
Regulation (EC) No.3283/94, inparticular thedefinition of"major proportion", asbeing thatof
Article 5.4ofitslegislation? What isthelegalbasis forsuchdefinition, interms oftheAgreement
onAnti-Dumping?ThesameclarificationissoughtregardingArticles6.1and7.8ofCouncilRegulation
(EC) No.3284/94.
6. HowdoestheECexplaintheprovisionsestablishedinArticles5.7and9.3ofCouncilRegulation
(EC)No.3282/94 andtheirconformity withthedefinition of"negligible volume", asestablished in
theAgreement onAnti-Dumping? Thesame clarification issought regarding Articles 7.11and11.4
ofCouncil Regulation (EC) No.3284/94.
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7. How does theECexplain theinclusion inArticle 10.1 (ii)ofCouncil Regulation (EC)
No.3284/94, regarding price undertakings, ofthepossibility ofceasing exports? What isthelegal
basis forsuchprovision intheWTO Agreement onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures?