WT/DS217/77  
 
30 June 2020  
(20-4529) Page: 1/2 
  Original: English  
 
UNITED STATES – CONTINUED DUMPING AND  
SUBSIDY OFFSET ACT OF 2000  
COMMUNICATION FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION  
The following communication, dated 26 June 2020 , was received from the delegation of the European 
Union  with the request that it be circulated to the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB).  
 
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On 26 November 2004, the Dispute Settlement Body ("DSB") granted authorization to the European 
Union to suspend concessions and related obligations under the General Agreement on Tariff an d 
Trade 1994 ("GATT 1994") in accordance with the decision of the Arbitrator in United 
States - Continued Dumping and Subsidies Offset Act of 2000 . The authorization was made pursuant 
to the European Union request (WT/DS217/39) made under Article 22.7 of t he Understanding on 
Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes ("DSU"). In that request, the European 
Communities undertook to notify the DSB every year the list of products on which the additional 
import duty would apply, prior to the entry  into force of a level of suspension of concessions.  
On 29 April 2005, the European Union notified the DSB that it was suspending, as of 1  May 2005, 
the application of concessions and related obligations under GATT 1994 on imports of certain 
products origi nating in the United States of America (WT/DS217/47). The list of products subject to 
this suspension of concessions was modified on 1 May 2006 (WT/DS217/49), on 1 May 2007 
(WT/DS217/51), on 1 May 2008 (WT/DS217/53), on 1 May 2009 (WT/DS217/55), on 1 May 2 010 
(WT/DS 217/57), on 1 May 2011 (WT/DS217/59), on 1 May 2012 (WT/DS217/61), on 1 May 2013 
(WT/DS217/63), on 1  May 2014 (WT/DS217/65), on 1 May 2015 (WT/DS217/67), on 1 May 2016 
(WT/DS217/69), on 1 May 2017 (WT/DS217/71),on 1 May 2018 (WT/DS217/73) and on  30 April 
2019 (WT/DS217/75). The Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/578 of 21 February 2020  
(OJ L 133, 28 April 2020) maintains unchanged the list of products subject  to retaliation. On the 
other hand, the rate of additional duty to which those products are subjected increases to 0,012% 
in order to adjust to the level of retaliation.  
The updated list is attached. The suspension, which applies as from 1 May 2020, cover s, over one 
year, a total value of trade that does not exceed USD 25.506,30.  
The amount of USD  25.506,30 is the European Union's current level of authorization established 
through arbitration under Article 22.6 of the DSU. It represents 72 percent  of USD   35.425,41 
collected from the European Union' exports and disbursed to U.S. companies in the distribution under 
the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000  for the most recent year for which data are 
available. The amount of relevant disbursements was identified based on the CDSOA Annual Report 
for Fiscal Year 2019 , published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on 25 November 2019.  
The European Union kindly asks the Secretariat to circulate this notification to the Members of the 
DSB. 
  
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  Product s subject to a 0,012% additional import duty  
as from 1 May 2020  
The products on which the 0,012% additional import duty would apply are those that are classified 
under the eight -digit CN codes and match the given descriptions.  
CN codes  Description of products  
0710 40 00  Sweet corn, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen  
6204 62 31  Women or girls' cotton denim trousers and breeches, other than industrial and 
occupational, of denim cotton  
8705 10 00  Crane lorries (excl. breakdown lorries)  
ex 9003 19 00  Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, of base metal  
 
 
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