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Committee on Anti -Dumping Practices  
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  
Committee on Safeguards  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLES 18.5, 32.6 AND 12.6 OF THE AGREEMENTS  
JAPAN 
Supplement  
The following communication, dated and received on 10 June  2023, is being circulated at the request 
of the delegation of Japan . 
 
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Pursuant to Article 32.6 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Article 18.5 of 
the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 
(Anti-dumping Agreement), and Article 12.6 of the Agreement on Safeguards, the Government of 
Japan wishes to notify the relevant Articles in the Act on the Promotion of Ensuring National Security 
through Integrated Imple mentation of Economic Measures (Act No.43 of 2022, which was 
promulgated on 18 May 2022) and the Order for Enforcement of the Act on the Promotion of Ensuring 
National Security through Integrated Implementation of Economic Measures (Cabinet Order No. 394 
of 2022, which was promulgated on 23 December 2022).  
 
This notification contains the Act.   
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  [Provisional Translation]  
Act on the Promotion of Ensuring National Security through Integrated Implementation of Economic 
Measures  
(Relationship with the Customs Tariff Act Pertaining to Specified Critical Products, etc.)  
Article 30  
1. In the case where the competent minister considers that, with respect to industries under its 
administrative jurisdiction that are related to specified critical products , et c., there is sufficient 
evidence with regard to the fact of the importation of product to which subsidies (which means, in 
this paragraph, the subsidies prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Customs Tariff Act (Act 
No. 54 of 1910)) are granted, dir ectly or indirectly, to production or export in any foreign country 
and the fact that such importation causes or threatens to cause material injury to the domestic 
industry (hereinafter in this paragraph interpreted as referring to an industry which produc es like 
products of such imported product to which the said subsidies are granted) or materially retards the 
establishment of domestic industry, if it is found necessary to prevent a situation in which the 
security of the nation and its citizens is undermi ned due to actions taken from outside Japan, the 
competent minister may, as may be prescribed by Cabinet Order, request the minister with 
jurisdiction over affairs concerning investigation prescribed in paragraph (6) of that Article to initiate 
such invest igation.  
2. In the case where the competent minister considers that, with respect to industries under its 
administrative jurisdiction that are related to specified critical products, etc., there is sufficient 
evidence with regard to the fact of the importa tion of dumped product (dumping means, in this 
paragraph, the dumping prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Customs Tariff Act) and the 
fact that such importation causes or threatens to cause material injury to the domestic industry (that 
produces the like products of the dumped product, hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the 
same) or materially retards the establishment of domestic industry, if it is found necessary to prevent 
a situation in which the security of the nation and its citize ns is undermined due to actions taken 
from outside Japan, the competent minister may, as may be prescribed by Cabinet Order, request 
the minister with jurisdiction over affairs concerning investigation prescribed in paragraph (5) of 
that Article to initiat e such investigation.  
3. In the case where the competent minister considers that, with respect to industries under its 
administrative jurisdiction that are related to specified critical products, etc., there is sufficient 
evidence with regard to the fact o f an increase in imports of these products (including an increase 
in the share of such imports in the total domestic production) as a result of unforeseen developments 
of circumstances including a decline in the price in a foreign country and the fact that  importation 
of such a product causes or threatens to cause serious injury to the domestic industry which 
produces the like or directly competitive products, if it is found necessary to prevent a situation in 
which the security of the nation and its citize ns is undermined due to actions taken from outside 
Japan, the competent minister may, as may be prescribed by Cabinet Order, request the minister 
with jurisdiction over affairs concerning investigation prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (6) of the 
Customs Tariff Act to initiate such investigation.  
4. In the case where the competent minister has made a request for investigation under the 
provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, when a decision to initiate the investigation has been 
made, the competent m inister is to publicize the outline of the fact that the request has been made 
and the facts pertaining to such request.  
 
 
（Request for Reports; On -Site Inspections ） 
Article 48 (excerpt)  
2. The competent minister may, to the extent necessary for the enforc ement of Article 30, 
paragraphs (1) through (3), request the individuals, corporations, or other organizations engaged 
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  businesses under its administrativ e jurisdiction to report or submit materials on matters necessary 
to request for investigation under these provisions.  
3. A person that is requested to report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of the 
preceding two paragraphs shall endeavor to comply with the request.  
 
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