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ORGANIZATIONG/ADP/M/23
21 March 2003
(03-1653)
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices
MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING
HELD ON 27 NOVEMBER AND 11 DECEMBER 2002
Chairman:  Mr. Cristian Espinosa Cañizares (Ecuador)
1. The Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices (the "Committee") held a special meeting on
27 November and 11 December 2002.
2. The Committee adopted the agenda proposed in WTO/AIR/1974, to discuss the issues
referred to the Committee, and to its Working Group on Implementation, by the Ministerial
Conference in the Decision on Implementation-Related Issues and Concerns (document
WT/MIN(01)/17, paras. 7.2-7.4), that is, (i) improvement of annual reviews under Article 18.6 of the
Anti-Dumping Agreement, (ii) the time-period to be considered in making a determination of
negligible import volumes for purposes of Article 5.8, and (iii) operationalizing Article 15.
3. The Chairman proposed, and the Committee agreed , that the formal meeting be suspended to
allow for discussion of the draft text of the recommendation on improvement of annual reviews in
informal session.
4. When the meeting was resumed, the Chairman proposed that the Committee adopt the
recommendation regarding annual reviews provided for in Article 18.6 of the Anti-Dumping
Agreement which had been agreed to in the informal session.
5. The Committee so decided.1
6. The Chairman stated that he was pleased that Members had been able to come to agreement on
this matter, and informed Members that he would report to the General Council, on his own responsibility
and without prejudice to the position of any Member, on the Committee's action.  He would inform the
General Council that the Committee had adopted a recommendation for improvement of the annualreviews under Article 18.6 of the Agreement.  His report would also include a brief summary of the
proposals, questions and answers, and discussions leading up to that decision.
7. The Chairman then proposed, and the Committee agreed, that the formal meeting of the
Committee again be suspended to allow the scheduled meeting of the Working Group on
Implementation to take place, to discuss the implementation issues that had been referred to it,namely, the time-period to be considered in making a determination of negligible import volumes for
purposes of Article 5.8 and operationalizing Article 15 .
8. When the meeting of the Committee was resume d, the Chairman informed Members that the
Working Group on Implementation had adopted a recommendation concerning the time-period to be
considered in making a determination of negligible import volumes for purposes of Article 5.8 of the
Agreement, and proposed that the Committee a dopt that recommendation as a Committee decision.
                                                     
1 Subsequently circulated as document G/ADP/9.G/ADP/M/23
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9. The Committee so decided.2
10. The Chairman stated that he was pleased that Members had been able to come to agreement on
this matter, and had adopted a recommendation on the time-period to be considered in making a
determination of negligible import volumes for purposes of Article 5.8 of the AD Agreement.  He
informed the Committee that, in his report to the General Council, he would inform the General Council
that the Committee had adopted a recommendation on the time-period to be considered in making adetermination of negligible import volumes for purposes of Article 5.8 of the AD Agreement, and
would provide a brief summary of the proposals, questions and answers, and discussions leading up to
that decision.
11. The Chairman then proposed, and the Committee agreed, to suspend the meeting until a later
date to allow further informal consultations on the remaining issue referred to the Working Group by the
Ministerial Decision, that is, operationalizing Article 15.
12. The meeting of the Committee was resumed on 11 December 2002.  The Chairman stated that
Members had been unable to agree on the text of a recommendation on operationalizing Article 15.
Given the lack of agreement, he intended to report to the General Council, as Chairman, on his own
responsibility and without prejudice to the position of any Member, summarizing the proposals, questions
and answers, and discussions, on this topic, and informing the General Council that no consensus had
been reached on a recommendation.3
13. The meeting was adjourned.
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2 Subsequently circulated as document G/ADP/10.
3 The Chairman's report, made at the meeting of the General Council on 12 December 2002, was
subsequently circulated as document G/ADP/11.