G/ADP/W/512  
G/SCM/W/590  
G/SG/W/258  
30 October  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 October  2023 regular  meetings , and in conjunction with the April  2024 
regular  meetings  of the Committees on Anti -Dumping Practices, Subsidie s and 
Countervailing  Measures, and Safeguards, which will be held in the week of 22 April  2024. 
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 March  2024 the annotated draft agenda in which 
a list of the new notifications of legislation , that will be on the agenda for review at the regular 
meetings in April  2024, will be reflected . Pursuant to procedures adopted by the Committees1,2, 
notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 11 March  2024 will be 
reviewed at the relevant Committee 's April  2024 regular meeting . 
1.1  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers following up on the October  2023 
regular meetings:  
17 November  2023 Written follow -up to questions posed orally at the October  2023 
regular meeting s regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at those 
meetings .  
8 December  2023 Written answers to all written questions (those posed in writing prior to 
the regular meeting s by the deadline  of 2 October  2023 and those 
posed orally at the meeting s and followed -up in writing after the regular 
meeting s by the above deadline of 17 November 2023) regarding 
notifications of legislation reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings 
in October  2023. 
1.2  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers in conjunction with the April 2024  
regular meetings:  
11 March  2024 Written questions regarding previously -reviewed notifications of 
legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in 
April  2024. 
2 April  2024  Written questions regarding new notifications of legislation to be 
reviewed at the Committees' r egular meetings in April  2024. Such 
questions  would be answered orally at the April  2024 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/512 • G/SCM/W/590 • G/SG/W/258  
 
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  8 April  2024 Written answers to written questions submitted by 11 March  2024 
regarding previously -reviewed notifications of legislation, for 
consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in April  2024. 
2.   SUBSIDY NOTIFICATIONS  
2.1  New and Full Subsidy Notifications  
2023 new and full notifications were due on 30 June  2023. Pursuant to the procedures adopte d 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 22 December  2023 may 
be reviewed at the special meeting that will be held in April  2024 . The Secretariat will circulate to 
Members, short ly after, a list of 202 3 new and full subsidy notifications, and any other new and full 
notifications not previously reviewed, that will be on the agenda for review at that meeting.  
17 November  2023 Written follow -up questions regarding the subsidy notific ations reviewed 
at the Committee's special meeting in October  2023. 
8 December  2023 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 October  2023. 
22 January  2024 Written questions regarding 2023 new and full subsidy notificatio ns, and 
other new and full notifications not previously -reviewed, to be reviewed 
at the Committee's special meeting in April  2024 . 
25 March  2024 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 April 2024 . 
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.