G/ADP/W/511  
G/SCM/W/588  
G/SG/W/257  
 
4 May 2023 
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Committee on Anti -Dumping Practices  
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  
Committee on Safeguards    
 
  
NOTE FROM THE SECRETARIAT  
In order to assist Members, the following are deadlines for submission of various documentation 
following up on the May 2023 regular  meetings , and in conjunction with the October 2023 
regular  meetings  of the Committees on Anti -Dumping Practices, Subsidies and 
Countervailing  Measures, and Safeguards, which will be held in the week of 23 October 2023. 
Members are reminded to always submit written questions and answers directly to the 
Member concerned  at the same time that they submit them to the Secretariat for 
circulation . 
1.   AD/CVD /SG LEGISLATION NOTIFICATIONS  
The Secretariat will circulate to Members by 15 September  2023 the annotated draft agenda in 
which a list of the new notifications of legislatio n, that will be on the agenda for review at the 
regular meetings in October  2023, will be reflected . Pursuant to procedures adopted by the 
Committees1,2, notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 
11 September  2023 will be reviewed at the relevant Committee 's October  2023 regular meeting . 
1.1  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers following up on the May 2023 
regular meetings:  
25 May 2023 Written follow -up to questions posed orally at the May 2023 regular 
meeting s regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at those 
meetings .  
15 June  2023 Written answers to all written questions (those posed in writing prior to 
the regular meeting s by the deadline  of 11 April  2023 and those posed 
orally at the meeting s and followed -up in writing after the regular 
meeting s by the above deadline of 25 May 2023) regarding 
notifications of legislation  reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings 
in May 2023. 
1.2  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers in conjunction with the 
October  2023 regular meetings:  
11 September  2023 Written questions regarding previously -reviewed notifications of 
legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in 
October  2023. 
2 October  2023 Written questions regarding new notifications of legislation to be 
reviewed at the Committee s' regular meetings in October  2023. Such 
questions  would be answered orally at the October  2023 regular 
meeting s and subsequently followed by written answers to be submitted 
by the deadline indicated by the Chair s at those meetings  and reflected 
in the next "Note from the Secretariat " to be issued after the meeting s. 
 
1 G/ADP/W/284/Rev.1 – G/SCM/W/293/Rev.1.  
2 G/SG/W/116.  G/ADP/W/511 • G/SCM/W/588 • G/SG/W/257  
 
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  9 October  2023 Written answers to written questions submitted by 
11 September  2023 regarding previously -reviewed notifications of 
legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in 
October  2023. 
2.   SUBSIDY NOTIFICATIONS  
2.1  New and Full Subsidy Notifications  
2023 new and full notifications are due on 30 June 202 3. Pursuant to the procedures adopt ed by 
the Committee at its April 2005 regular meeting and circulated in document G/SCM/1173, only 
notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 26 June  2023 may be 
reviewed at the special meeting that will be held in October  2023. The Secretariat will circulate to 
Members, shortly after, a list of 202 3 new and full subsidy notifications, and any other new and full 
notifications not previously reviewed, that w ill be on the agenda for review at that meeting.  
25 May 202 3 Written follow -up questions regarding the subsidy notifications reviewed 
at the Committee's special meeting in May 2023 that had not been 
reviewed at previous meetings.  
15 June 202 3 Written answers to all follow -up and pending written questions posed in 
connection with the subsidy notifications reviewed at the Committee's 
special meeting in May 2023 that had not been reviewed at previous 
meetings.  
24 July 2023 Written questions regard ing 2023 new and full subsidy notifications, and 
other new and full notifications not previously -reviewed, to be reviewed 
at the Committee's special meeting in October  2023. 
25 September  2023 Written answers to written questions regarding 2023 new and full  
subsidy notifications, and other new and full notifications not 
previously -reviewed, to be reviewed at the Committee's special meeting 
in October  2023. 
2.2  Transparency Notifications Relating to Article 27.4 Export Subsidy Phase -Out Period  
The Members with Article 27.4 extensions  are required, pursuant to paragraph 2(c) of the 
procedures in WT/L/691, to provide transparency notifications in respect of 2015 , the last of 
the two final years for phasing out the export subsidies. These notifications were due on 
30 June  2016 . 
 
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3 At its regular meeting held on 2 May 2023 , the Committee agreed that the procedures contained in 
G/SCM/117 would apply to the review of the 202 3 new and full subsidy notifications.