WT/DS217/7 5 
 
 13 May 201 9 
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  Original: English  
 
UNITED STATES – CONTINUED DUMPING AND  
SUBSIDY OFFSET ACT OF 2000  
COMMUNICATION FROM T HE EUROPEAN UNION  
The following communication, received on 10  May 2019, from the del egation of the European Union  
to the Chairperson of the Dispute Settlement Body, is circulated at the request of that delegation.  
 
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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 and 
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 Unio n request (WT/DS217/39) made under Article 22.7 of the 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 ad ditional 
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 originating 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 (W T/DS217/53), on 1 May 2009 (WT/DS217/55), on 1 May 2010 
(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 2 017 (WT/DS217/71) and on 1 May 2018 (WT/DS217/73). The relevant 
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/673 of 27  February 2019  (OJ L 114, 30 April 2019) 
maintains unchanged the list of products subject to retaliation. On the other hand, the rate of 
additional duty to which those products are subjected decreases to 0,001% in order to adjust to the 
level of retaliation.  
The updated li st is attached. The suspension, which applies as from 1 May 2019, covers, over one 
year, a total value of trade that does not exceed USD 3.355,82.  
The amount of USD  3.355,82 is the European Union's current level of authorization established 
through arbitra tion under Article 22.6 of the DSU. It represents 72 percent  of USD 4.660,86 c ollected 
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 2018 , published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on 13 December 2018 and 
additionally on the basis of updated annual dis bursement reports for 2015, 2016 and 2017, published 
by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on 16 March 2018.  
The European Union kindly asks the Secretariat to circulate this notification to the Members of the 
DSB. 
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Products subject to a 0,001% additional import duty  
as from 1 May 2019  
 
The products on which the 0,001% additional import duty would apply are those are classified under 
the eight -digit CN codes and match the given descriptions.  
 
 
Subject to the 
0,001% additional 
import duty as from 
1 May 2019   
 
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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