RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/ADP/Q1/PER/3
G/SCM/Q1/PER/3
ORGANIZATION 8April 1998
(98-1440)
Original: English Committee onAnti-Dumping Practices
Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
NOTIFICATION OFLAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER
ARTICLES 18.5AND 32.6OFTHE AGREEMENTS
Questions from theUNITED STATES
toPERU1
Thefollowingcommunication,dated6April1998,hasbeenreceivedfromthePermanentMission
oftheUnited States.
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1. (a) Anumber ofregulations (e.g., 18,20,21)specific thatthe“requirement oftheTUPA ”
mustbemet.Article 2defines theTUPA as“thesoletextofadministrative procedures
oftheNational Institute fortheDefence ofCompetition andtheProtection ofIntellectual
Property (INDECOPI), thesection corresponding totheDumping andSubsidies
Commission”,i.e.theadministeringagency.CouldPerupleaseexplainhowthisrelates
totheregulations contained inthisnotification? Willthistextbenotified totheWTO
Anti-Dumping andSubsidies Committees?
(b) Similarly, Article 33oftheregulations provides thattheform andamount ofany
provisional measures shallberegulated bytherelevant provisions ofthesoleamended
textoftheCode ofCivil Procedure. Willtherelevant provisions ofthisCode be
notified totheWTO Anti-dumping andSubsidies Committees?
2. Article 12ofthenotified regulations provides that“[i]nthecaseofactionable subsidies, the
Commission mayassume thatthere isinjury todomestic injury inconformity withthecriteria laid
down inArticle 6oftheSubsidies Agreement ”.Given thatArticle 6oftheSubsidies Agreement refers
nottoinjury tothedomestic industry ofanother Member (seeArt.5(a)oftheSubsidies Agreement)
buttoserious prejudice totheinterests ofanother Member (seeArt.5(c)oftheSubsidies Agreement),
wasArticle 12intended torefertoserious prejudice rather thantoinjury tothedomestic industry?
CanPeruconfirm that,inthecaseofactionable subsidies forwhich relief issought under Peruvian
law,injury tothedomestic industry willnotbeassumed, butwillinstead beexamined pursuant to
theprovisions ofArticle 15oftheSubsidies Agreement andTitleIVofthenotified regulations?
3. Article 22ofthenotified regulations provides fortheSecretariat tonotify thepersons cited
inthecomplaint following thepublication ofthedecision toinitiate aninvestigation. With the
understanding thatthisprovision appears tocorrespond tothenotice requirements inArticles 6.1of
theAnti-Dumping Agreement and12.1. oftheSubsidies Agreement, could Peruplease confirm that,
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asrequired byArticle 5.5oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement, itsauthorities notify thegovernment of
theexporting Member concerned “before proceeding toinitiate aninvestigation ”.
4. Article 23ofthenotified regulations provides thattheCommission mayrequire information
from, interalia,customs agents. Given thatmuch oftheinformation collected bytheUSCustoms
Service cannot bereleased toaforeign government, evenonaconfidential basis, canthePeruvian
delegate confirm thatthe“customs agents ”referred toareonlythePeruvian customs agents?
5. Article 32ofthenotified regulations provides thatincases inwhich anyinterested partyrefuses
accessto,orotherwisedoesnotprovide,necessaryinformationwithinthetime-limitfixedorsignificantly
impedes theinvestigation, theCommission maydecide toapply provisional ordefinitive duties pursuant
toArticle 6.8oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement and12.7oftheSubsidies Agreement. Thereferenced
articlesoftheAgreementspermittheadministeringagencytomake“preliminaryandfinaldeterminations,
affirmative ornegative, ”onthebasisofthefactsavailable. Further, theAnti-Dumping andSubsidies
Agreements bothrequire thattheapplication ofeither provisional ordefinitive dumping canonlyoccur
when therehasbeenapositive finding notonlyofdumping orsubsidization, butofconsequent injury
tothedomestic industry.
CanPeruplease clarify that,evenshould aforeign exporter notprovide information necessary
todetermine whether dumping orsubsidization ofitsproducts hasoccurred, neither provisional nor
definitive duties willbelevied intheabsence ofanaffirmation finding ofinjury resulting from such
dumping orsubsidization?
6. Article 39ofthenotified regulations provides thatanti-dumping andcountervailing duties are
“fines”rather thantaxes. What aretheconsequences ofthisdistinction forimporters andtheirsuppliers?
7. Peruappearstohaveaprospectiveapproachtoanti-dumpinglaw.However,althoughArticle47
ofthenotified regulations provides forareview toconsider thecontinued [prospective] application
ofduties ifthere isadequate evidence of“significant change ”inthesituation, these regulations do
notappeartoprovideforthe“refundreview”tobeprovidedtoimportersinprospectivesystemspursuant
toArticle 9.3.2 oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement. Could Peruplease clarify howthisobligation is
metunder Peruvian law?
8. HastheGovernmentofPeruissuedtheadministrativeregulationsfortheDumpingandSubsidies
Commission oftheNational Institute fortheDefence ofCompetition andtheProtection ofIntellectual
Property(“Commission”)thatarereferencedinTitleI,paragraphVI,ofSupremeDecreeNo.043-97-EF
(“Supreme Decree ”))?Ifso,willtheGovernment ofPerubenotifying those regulations totheWTO?
9. WilltheCommission bepermitted tocumulatively assess theeffects ofimports from more
thanonecountry subject toinvestigation inananti-dumping orcountervailing dutyproceeding, as
permitted under Article 3.3oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement andArticle 15.3 oftheSubsidies
Agreement? Ifso,howwilltheGovernment ofPeruensure thatsuchananalysis isconsistent with
therequirements ofthose Articles?
10. Article 14(I)(b) oftheSupreme Decree allows theCommission toassess theprice effects of
imports subject toinvestigation forpurposes ofmaking amaterial injury determination byexamining
theeffects thatare“caused ormaybecaused ”bysuchimports. Isthisconsistent withArticle 3.2
oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement andArticle 15.3oftheSubsidies Agreement, which require member
countries toexamine whether thesubject imports haveactually underpriced thedomestic likeproduct,
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11. Article 23oftheSupreme Decree provides thatvarious private entities mustprovide information
totheCommission within thetimelimits fixed bytheCommission “onpainofliability ”.What does
thephrase “onpainofliability ”mean?
12. Forpurposes oftheSupreme Decree, whatisthedefinition ofan“interested party”whois
entitled toparticipate inananti-dumping orcountervailing dutyproceeding?
13. Article 32oftheSupreme Decree allows theCommission todecide to“apply provisional or
definitive [anti-dumping orcountervailing] duties ”whenever aninterested party refuses toprovide
necessary information within thetimelimits established bytheCommission orsignificantly impedes
theinvestigation. Isthisconsistent withArticle 6.8oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement andArticle 12.7
oftheSubsidies Agreement, which provides onlythatamember statemaymake itspreliminary or
finaldeterminations onthebasis ofthe“factsavailable ”inthese circumstances?
14. IstheCommission required bytheSupreme Decree orother lawtoinform allparties ofthe
“essential factsunder consideration ”which formthebasisofitsdetermination before making itsfinal
determination, asrequired byArticle 6.8oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement andArticle 12.8ofthe
Subsidies Agreement?
15. Article 38oftheSupreme Decree provides thatthevolume ofdumped imports willbedeemed
negligible if“thevolume fromaparticular country isfound toaccount forlessthan3percentofimports
ofthelikeproduct inthatcountry ”.Doesthismean thatnegligibility determinations inananti-dumping
proceeding willbebased onacomparison ofthevolume ofimports from acountry withallimports
intoPeru, asrequired byArticle 5.8oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement?
16. WilltheCommission publish thetypeofexplanation ofitspreliminary andfinaldeterminations
inanti-dumping andcountervailing dutyinvestigations required byArticle 12.2oftheAnti-Dumping
Agreement andArticle 22.3oftheSubsidies Agreement?
17. Article 47oftheSupreme Decree provides thattheCommission mayreview theneedforan
order attherequest ofaparty ifmore thansixmonths have passed since theconclusion ofan
investigation. HowdoestheSupreme Decree ensure thatthisreview isconsistent withArticle 11.2
oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement andArticle 21.2oftheSubsidies Agreement, which provide that,
insuchareview,theCommissionshoulddeterminewhethercontinuedimpositionofthedutyisnecessary
tooffset dumping orsubsidization and/or whether injury would belikely tocontinue orrecur ifthe
dutywere remove orvaried?
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