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ORGANIZATIONG/ADP/AHG/W/142
23 October 2002
(02-5819)
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices
Working Group on ImplementationOriginal:  English
PARAGRAPH 7.4:  ANNUAL REVIEWS OF THE
ANTI-DUMPING AGREEMENT
Submission by the United States
The following communication, dated 21 October 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the United States.
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Background
Paragraph 7.4 of the WTO Implementation Decision states that the Ministerial Conference
“Takes note that Article 18.6 of the Agreement on the Implementation of Article VI of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 requires the Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices to review
annually the implementation and operation of the Agreement taking into account the objectives
thereof.  The Committee on Anti-dumping Practices is instructed to draw up guidelines for the
improvement of annual reviews and to report its views and recommendations to the General Council
for subsequent decision within 12 months.”
Article 18.6 of the Agreement states:  “The Committee shall review annually the
implementation and operation of this Agreement taking into account the objectives thereof.  The
Committee shall inform annually the Council for Trad e in Goods of developments during the period
covered by such reviews.”
The United States believes that improvements in the reporting of anti-dumping activity under
the Agreement and in the Committee’s annual reviews are important to promoting transparency.
Drawing on the important contribution previously submitted by Canada1, we would like to offer some
suggested improvements that would provide usef ul information to Members and the public, and
would enhance transparency under the Agreement.
US  Proposal1. The Committee’s annual report under Article 18.6 should include in the Summary of
Anti-Dumping Actions
2, in addition to the column currently included that lists the initiations
reported by each Member, a comparable column listing the number of antidumping
revocations/terminations reported by each Member during the reporting period.  Where a
Member has not provided such information, the report should note this omission.  As the
                                                     
1 G/ADP/W/421 (29 January 2002).
2 See Report (2001) of the Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices, Annex C, G/L/495
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Secretariat stated in its background note, Members are already requested to report the number
of terminations in a separate table as an annex to their semi-annual reports of anti-dumping
activity.3  Consequently, such information should be included in the Article 18.6 annual
report.
2. The Committee’s Article 18.6 annual report should also include a chart comparing for each
Member the number of preliminary and final measures reported in its semi-annual reports
with the number of notices of preliminary and final measures the Member submitted to the
Secretariat for the comparable period.
3. WTO Members should report to the AD Committee for each AD investigation whether or not
a public hearing was held at which both interested parties supporting the application, andinterested parties opposing the application, ha d an opportunity to present their views, or
whether all interested parties waived a right to a public hearing.  The Committee’s
Article 18.6 annual report should indicate for each Member the number of investigations in
which public hearings were held at which both interested parties supporting the application,
and interested parties opposing the application, had an opportunity to present their views.
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3 G/ADP/425 (17 April 2002).