G/L/1447  
G/ADP/30  
 
28 November 2022  
(22-8861) Page: 1/10 
Council for Trade in Goods  
Committee on Anti -Dumping Practices    
 
 
CURRENT FUNCTIONING OF THE  
COMMITTEE ON ANTI -DUMPING PRACTICES  
REPORT TO THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE IN GOODS  
BY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE COMMITTEE ON ANTI -DUMPING PRACTICES  
The following report has been prepared under the responsibility of Mr Juan Carlos ESTRELLA as 
Chairperson of the Committee on Anti -Dumping Practices, with the assistance of the Secretariat, at 
the request of the Chairperson of the Council for Trade in Goods.1 
 
1  PAST EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE WORK OF THE COM MITTEE  
The past efforts to improve the work of the Committee are referred to in detail under 
part 2 below. However, the following are the highlights of these past efforts which 
resulted in the current status of the Committee's practices : 
 
• Decision of the C ommittee in 1995 to set the dates of regular meetings to be held in the last 
weeks of April and October of each year (G/ADP/M/1).  
 
• Constant coordination among the three Rules Committees (Anti -Dumping Practices, 
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and Sa feguards), as their meetings are held in the 
same week. Coordination among the three Rules Committees and the Working Party on State 
Trading Enterprises (WPSTE) which holds its meetings back -to-back with the 
three  Committees.  
 
• Committee's approved procedu res for the review of its legislative notifications in 1996 
(G/ADP/W/284) and its revised version in 2014 (G/ADP/W/284/Rev.1).  
 
• Committee's format for semi -annual reports (G/ADP/1) in 1995 and the adoption of its 
revised version in 2008 (G/ADP/1/Rev.1).  
 
• Committee's minimum information format for ad hoc notifications of preliminary and final 
anti-dumping actions (G/ADP/2) in 1995.  This was followed by two revisions to add clarity 
with respect to the types of actions to be notified and provide for additional transparency 
(G/ADP/2/Rev.1 and G/ADP/2/Rev.2) in 2006 and 2009, respectively. The Secretariat issues 
monthly reports reflecti ng all such notifications and provides a service allowing Government 
officials of Members to inspect such documents, upon request.  
 
• A process held in 2009 to streamline notifications yielded the so called "one -time notification" 
format (G/ADP/19) and the adoption of a Committee decision requiring Members to submit 
all their anti -dumping notifications electronically, in an effort to do away with paper 
submissions (G/ADP/20).  
 
• Annotated draft agendas circulated approximately six weeks prior to the meetings.  
 
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  • Circulation of a "deadlines" document following each meeting to recapitulate the deadlines 
for answers to questions raised in connection to the last meeting and to indicate the future 
deadlines for documentation to be submitted in connection with the next meeting.  
• Issuance of two reminders for semi -annual reports covering the preceding six months.  
 
• Members are reminded and encouraged by the Chair at every meeting to use the 
e-subscription function.  
 
• Members are reminded and encouraged by the Chair at ever y meeting to provide their 
missing notifications.  
 
• Courtesy copies of all room documents issued prior to the meetings and placed online are 
also sent to a regularly updated contact list of delegates responsible for the Committee.  
• The development of two u seful electronic tools for investigating authorities, i.e., the i -trADe 
online training course for anti -dumping; and the MADRE electronic timeline tool for trade 
remedies investigations.  
 
• The launch in 2021 of the new online "AD Portal" for the submission of Members' semi -annual 
reports.  
 
• The launch in 2021 of the "Explore Data" function of the AD portal which provides online 
access to all information submitted by Members in their semi -annual reports.  
 
• The launch in 2022 of the "Trade Remedies Data Portal" , a searchable database of 
information on trade remedy actions that presents this information in an accessible, 
customizable and user -friendly manner.  
 
2  CURRENT STATUS OF COMMITTEE PRACTICES  
2.1  Assistance to delegates  
- The Committee does not regularly organize training activities for Geneva -based delegates on the 
practical aspects of its functioning and has never been requested by Members to provide such 
activities. The Secretariat systematically provides assistance to all delegations involved  in the 
meetings before and after such meetings. The Secretariat circulates a "deadlines" document 
containing the specific dates by which Members should submit the various documentation in 
connection with the last meeting and in conjunction with the follow ing meeting. It also contacts all 
delegations with items listed on the agenda (by phone/email/in person) to remind them of the 
upcoming meeting, the issues raised and whether there are any outstanding questions to answer 
before or at the meeting.  
 
- On the  substantive issues under the purview of the Committee, these are usually discussed 
back-to-back with the Regular Committee meeting in two informal subsidiary bodies, i.e. the 
Informal Group on Anti -Circumvention ("IGAC") and the Working Group on Implement ation ("WGI"). 
The meetings of these two bodies are held back -to-back with the Committee meetings. It should 
also be noted that the topics discussed at the WGI sessions are consulted and agreed upon by 
Members and that the sessions are presided over by a c apital -based discussant with practical 
experience in the area of anti -dumping investigations.  
 
- At every Committee meeting, the Chair regularly promotes the use of the e -subscription tool.  
 
- The Committee has not undertaken specific initiatives to incre ase the participation of capital -based 
officials per se , as the Committee has always been heavily attended by large capital -based 
delegations. The fact that the dates of the meetings were decided by the Committee in 1995 to take 
place in the last week of A pril and the last week of October (unless that falls on a WTO holiday) 
made it easy for capital -based officials to plan their travel and organize their meeting dates with 
certainty and predictability. The only exception was during the COVID -19 pandemic whe n 
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  in person. However, despite time zone differences capital -based officials attended online meetings 
via Interprefy and interacted effectively. The continued use of Interprefy even after the COVID -19 
pandemic, has definitely increased attendance and enhanced participation of more capital -based 
officials who can now attend such meetings online via a flexible virtual tool.  
 
2.2  Organization of Committee wor k 
2.2.1   Digital tools used for Committee work  
- The Secretariat has been involved in a series of projects aimed at digitizing the trade remedy 
notification process and improving the way information on the use of trade remedy measures is 
compiled, stored and pres ented to Members. A major development in this regard is the official 
launch, in  2021, of the Anti -Dumping Notification Portal, which allows Members to electronically 
create and submit - through a dedicated e -platform - semi-annual reports while minimizing effort 
and reducing reporting errors. This was shortly followed by the addition of the "Explore Data" 
function, which provides online access to all information submitted by Members in their semi -annual 
reports.  
 
- The Secretariat has started promoting the  new portal as early as 2019 and upon the initial launch 
in October 2020, the Secretariat conducted a series of presentations, demonstrations and trainings 
tailored to increase Members' awareness of the Portal and its functionalities, for which it has rece ived 
very positive feedback from Members.  
 
- In parallel, the Secretariat has upgraded and restructured the anti -dumping database, which has 
required intensive work with individual Members to clean up past records in this database. This work 
has culminate d in the development of the "Trade Remedies Data Portal", a searchable database of 
information on trade remedy actions that presents this information in an accessible, customizable 
and user -friendly manner. This Portal has been presented to Members at the Committee meeting in 
October 2022 and has gone online as of 1 November 2022.  
 
- It should also be noted that the Secretariat has developed in 2018 two very useful electronic tools. 
The first  is an interactive and very comprehensive capacity -building and web-based training 
platform  and reference package for anti -dumping investigators  known as i-trADe . i-trADe contains 
detailed explanations on both procedural and substantive aspects of conducting anti -dumping 
investigations and was developed by the WTO Secretariat, drawing on the best of its expertise, to 
bring a fully integrated and interactive computer -based training tool right to the authorities' 
desktops. The second is a case management tool known as MADRE  (Managing Anti-Dumping 
investigations in REal time) which was created by the WTO Secretariat, inspired by investigating 
authorities' own case manag ement systems and practices, and with excellent support from 
authorities around the world. MADRE's lightweight and clear interface make it easy for users to take 
advantage of all of the system's features and functions. It is a web -based package installed b y 
authorities in their own IT environment , and it can be especially useful for newly established 
authorities.  
 
2.2.2   Planning and organization of meetings  
- The Committee has fixed dates for its regular meetings, by virtue of a 1995 decision (G/ADP/M/1). 
These a re usually held in the last week of April (the spring meeting) and the last week of October 
(the autumn meeting), which allows for advance planning and predictability. In the rare occurrence 
that any day of these weeks falls on a WTO official holiday, the Committee is informed and decides 
on an alternative meeting date, usually the following week.  
 
- In addition to its Rules of Procedures contained in document G/ADP/4, the Committee has adopted, 
in 1996, specific procedures for the review of its legislativ e notifications, which is a crucial part of 
its work and monitoring function (G/ADP/W/284). These procedures were further revised at the 
request of Members in 2014 (G/ADP/W/284/Rev.1) which resulted in the retention of all unanswered 
written questions, pos ed to legislative notifications under review, on the agendas of the Committee's 
meetings until written answers are submitted.  
 
- It should be noted that the dates of the Committee's meetings are coordinated with the Committees 
on Safeguards (SG) and on Su bsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM) which hold their meetings 
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  WPSTE which holds its meetings back -to-back with the three Committees. All four bodies involve to 
a large extent the same capital -based officials.  
 
2.2.3   Regular meetings and meetings of informal subsidiary bodies  
Table 1: Number of regular and informal subsidiary bodies meetings  
Year  Regular meeting and 
subsidiary bodies  Type of meetings  
 Other (e.g. workshops, 
symposia, etc.)  
2019  
(spring)  
 
 
2019  
(autumn)  
 1 May  
1 May  
2 May  
 
20 November2 
20 November  
21-22 November  Regular  
IGAC3 
WGI4 
Regular  
IGAC 
WGI None 
2020  
(spring)  
 
 
2020  
(autumn)  COVID -19 pandemic – 
meetings cancelled  
 
 
28 October  
None (COVID -19) 
None (COVID -19) Regular  
IGAC 
WGI 
 
Regular  
IGAC 
WGI  
 
 
 
Presentation by the 
Secretariat on the AD portal 
for submission of 
semi-annual reports  
In December 2020, virtual 
presentations in English and 
Spanish to Members on the 
same subject.  
2021  
(spring)  
 
 
2021  
(autumn)  
 28 April  
None (COVID -19) 
None (COVID -19) 
 
27 October  
None 
28-29 October  Regular  
IGAC 
WGI 
 
Regular  
IGAC 
WGI 
  
 
 
 
Presentation by the 
Secretariat on the "Explore 
Data" function of the AD 
portal for submission of 
semi-annual reports  
2022  
(spring)  
 
 
 
2022  
(autumn)  27 April  
27 April  
28-29 April  
 
26 October  
None 
27-28 October  Regular  
IGAC 
WGI 
 
Regular  
IGAC 
WGI  
 
 
 
Presentation by the 
Secretariat on the new Trade 
Remedies Data Portal  
 
2 Please note that Members agreed exceptionally on that date in lieu of the last week of October to 
accommodate the meetings of the Negotiating Group on Rules.  
3 Informal Group on Anti -circumvention.  
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  2.2.4   Annotated draft agendas and airgrams  
- The Committee issues – since 1995 - detailed annotated draft agendas5 approximately six weeks 
before each regular meeting, where different items are listed along with the relevant information 
and deadlines. The annotated draft agenda also informs Members of the date by which they can 
submit any comments or add any items to the agenda, prior to the issuance of the formal airgram 
convening the meeting. The Committee has two subsidiary informal bodies: the Informal Group on 
Anti-Circumvention (IGAC) and the Working Group on Implementation (WGI). Both informal bodies 
are referre d to in the annotated draft agenda and are held based on processes agreed upon by the 
Membership.   
 
- The formal airgram is issued at a minimum 10 days prior to the first meeting of the Rules week 
(SG, SCM, ADP) along with the airgrams for the meetings of the IGAC (if requested to be held) and 
the WGI. The airgram contains the proposed agenda which has already been circulated in detailed 
form in the annotated draft agenda document along with any items requested by the set deadline 
to be placed on the agenda  by any Member. The order of the agenda is fixed, whereby standing 
agenda items for review of different notifications are listed first, followed by the Chair's reports on 
the work of the IGAC and the WGI, any issues requested to be placed on the agenda by any Member 
or group of Members and ultimately followed by Other Business, date of the next meeting, election 
of officers (spring meeting) and adoption of the Committee's Annual Report to the Council for Trade 
in Goods (autumn meeting).  
 
- A list of contact  details for the delegates responsible for the Committee has been created many 
years ago. It is updated continuously, and is issued as a room document prior to each meeting. 
annotated draft agendas, airgrams, draft annual reports and all communications iss ued by the 
Committee or the Chair and placed online prior to the meetings are also sent by email to this contact 
list to keep delegates attending the meetings informed.  
Table 2: Preparation of annotated draft agendas and airgrams  
Year  Date of regular 
meeting and 
subsidiary bodies  Date of 
circulation of 
annotated draft 
agendas  No. of 
days 
before 
the 
meeting  Date of 
circulation of 
airgrams  No. of 
days 
before the 
meeting  
2019  
(spring)  1 May 2019 – Regular  
1 May 2019 – IGAC 
2 May 2019 - WGI 22 March 2019  40 days  18 April 2019  
18 April 2019  
18 April 2019  13 days  
2019  
(autumn)  20 Nov. 20196 - Regular  
20 Nov. 2019 – IGAC 
21-22 Nov.  2019 - WGI 11 October  2019 40 days  8 November  2019 
8 November 2019  
8 November 2019  12 days  
2020  
(spring)  COVID -19 pandemic – 
meetings cancelled  ---- ---- ---- ---- 
2020  
(autumn)  28 Oct. 2020 – Regular  
(IGAC & WGI – not 
held – COVID -19 
restrictions)  18 September  2020 40 days  16 October 2020  12 days  
 
5 Table 2.  
6 Please  note that Members have agreed exceptionally on that date in lieu of the last week of October to 
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  Year  Date of regular 
meeting and 
subsidiary bodies  Date of 
circulation of 
annotated draft 
agendas  No. of 
days 
before 
the 
meeting  Date of 
circulation of 
airgrams  No. of 
days 
before the 
meeting  
2021  
(spring)  28 April 2021 – Regular  
(IGAC & WGI – not 
held – COVID -19 
restrictions)  19 March 2021  40 days  16 April 2021  12 days  
2021  
(autumn)  27 Oct. 2021 - Regular  
(IGAC – not held)  
28-29 Oct. 2021 - WGI 17 September 2021  40 days  15 October 2021  
 
 
15 October 2021  12 days  
2022  
(spring)  27 April 2022 – Regular  
 
27 April 2022 – IGAC 
 
28-29 April 2022 – WGI 18 March 2022  40 days  14 April 2022  
 
14 April 2022  
 
14 April 2022  13 days  
2022  
(autumn)  26 Oct. 2022 – Regular  
(IGAC – not held)  
 
27-28 Oct. 2022 - WGI 16 September 2022  40 days  14 October 2022  
 
 
14 October 2022  12 days  
 
2.2.5   Other documents circulated before and after the meetings  
- Prior to each meeting, the Secretariat circulates a list reflecting the status of the semi -annual 
reports, i.e., indicating the reports that have and have not been received. Two documents are 
circulated per semester to remind Members to submit their semi -annual reports covering a given 
reporting period (January -June and July -December).   
 
- The Secretariat issues – on an ongoing basis – monthly reports c ontaining information on the 
different ad hoc notifications of anti -dumping actions submitted by Members. The Secretariat has a 
service that provides the electronic version of such documents to delegates and other government 
officials, upon request.  
 
- The Secretariat circulates prior to each meeting an updated list of Members' authorities competent 
to conduct anti -dumping investigations, as notified by Members.  
 
- Prior to each meeting, the Secretariat circulates an updated list of contact details of dele gations 
for Members' review and submission of further updates, if any.  
 
- Prior to the October meeting each year, the Secretariat circulates the draft annual report for 
Members' review and written comments.  
 
- The Secretariat receives different types of n otifications, namely, legislative notifications, 
ad hoc notifications of preliminary and final anti -dumping actions and semi -annual reports of 
anti-dumping actions. In case of legislative notifications, these are placed on the agenda pursuant 
to specific p rocedures adopted by the Committee (G/ADP/W/284/Rev.1). They are formatted and 
circulated upon receipt. The reports on ad hoc notifications received are, as explained above, 
produced and circulated monthly.  
 
- The only documents that may be issued after t he circulation of the airgram are certain semi -annual 
reports by Members either due to late submission past the deadline or due to inconsistencies that 
need to be corrected. It should be noted that once such reports are received, they are not circulated 
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  anomalies or inconsistences are found in such documents, the Secretariat liaises with the Member 
in question and provides its comments and suggestions in this respect. In some cases, Members' 
feedback takes some time which eventually delays the circulation of the reports until after the 
circulation of the airgram. As these reports contain figures that source the data compiled in the 
tables of the annual report t o the CTG, the draft annual report is also issued in the week prior to the 
Committee meeting and after the circulation of the airgram.  
 
- Immediately after meetings, the Secretariat circulates a deadlines document, for follow -up 
documents related to the me eting just concluded, and for documents to be submitted for 
consideration at the next meeting. In addition, following a meeting of the Committee the Secretariat 
normally prepares a strictly factual news item for the WTO website, approved by the Chair of th e 
Committee, reflecting the main topics that were raised at the meeting.  
 
- In addition, the latest statistics based on the information contained in the semi -annual reports of 
Members is also placed on the WTO anti -dumping webpage covering the period Janua ry 1995 until 
the latest reporting period covered by the semi -annual reports, i.e., the last six months just reviewed 
by the Committee.  
2.2.6   Preparation of the minutes  
- Minutes produced are those for the regular meetings and any other formal (special) meetings  of 
the Committee. For the informal subsidiary bodies of the Committee (the IGAC and WGI), no minutes 
or summaries are produced.  
 
- For each regular meeting, the Secretariat starts drafting the minutes of the meetings immediately 
after the regular meeting  but can only finalize the first draft when it receives all of the written 
versions of the statements or after the recording of the meeting is transcribed to make sure that the 
minutes are comprehensive, accurate and complete. The minutes are basically a d etailed summary 
of what Members said at the meeting. The Secretariat normally awaits the deadlines - pertaining to 
the questions and answers to be provided following the meeting - to lapse (these questions and 
answers are usually circulated and referred to  in the draft minutes) before the draft minutes are 
sent to Members for comments. The draft minutes are then sent to Members that took the floor at 
the meeting to comment on the summaries of their interventions. The draft minutes are also sent 
to Members r egarding which an item was raised, even if they did not take the floor. Members who 
took the floor at the meeting are given 10 calendar days to comment on their own interventions. 
The minutes are then immediately circulated once any necessary changes have been introduced.  
Table 3: Preparation of the minutes/summary reports  
Year  Last date of the 
formal meeting  Date of 
circulation of the 
minutes  No. of pages  No. of days 
following the 
meeting  
2019  
(spring)  
2019  
(autumn)  1 May  
 
20 November7 19 July  
 
15 January  18 
 
20 79 
 
56 
2020  
(spring)  
2020  
(autumn)  COVID -19 pandemic  – 
meetings  cancelled  
28 October   
 
 
29 January   
 
 
19  
 
 
93 
2021  
(spring)  
2021  
(autumn)  28 April  
 
27 October  26 July  
 
17 December  24 
 
20 89 
 
51 
 
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  Year  Last date of the 
formal meeting  Date of 
circulation of the 
minutes  No. of pages  No. of days 
following the 
meeting  
2022  
(spring)  
2022  
(autumn)  27 April  
 
26 October  14 September  22 140 
 
2.2.7   Informal meetings  
- The Committee has not held informal meetings during the period 2019 -2022.  
Table 4: Convening of informal meetings  
Year  Date of informal meeting  Date of communication 
convening the informal 
meeting  No. of days  
2019   
 
NONE  2020  
2021  
2022  
 
2.3  Substantive work  
2.3.1   Thematic sessions  
- The Committee has two subsidiary bodies:  
 
The Working Group on Implementation (WGI):  
 
- The WGI serves as an informal forum for the exchange of information on Members' practices in 
conducting anti -dumping investigations. It was created by a decision of the Committee on 
Anti-Dumping Practices in October 1996.8 The WGI normally meets twice per year, back -to-back 
with the Committee's regular spring and autumn meetings. Fol lowing discussions in the Committee 
in 2015, Members agreed to adopt a new approach to reinvigorate the work of the WGI, which had 
become largely dormant while anti -dumping negotiations were active.  
 
- In particular, Members agreed to have a topic -based a pproach, where a given meeting would focus 
on a specific topic(s). The topic(s) to be discussed at a meeting should be identified well in advance, 
and agreed by Members.  
 
- Members also agreed to select a discussant, on a topic -by-topic basis, to facilita te discussion at 
each meeting of the WGI. The discussant should be an anti -dumping expert, known among 
Committee Members, who would encourage Members to submit papers, prepare possible lists of 
questions or issues for advance circulation to focus and moder ate the discussions. The discussion 
outlines prepared by the discussants are circulated as room documents and also sent directly to 
delegates by email on the same day. A reference to the WGI is also included in the annotated draft 
agenda for each regular m eeting of the Committee. Although there is no agreed timeline for the 
preparation and circulation of the discussion outline, in practice, it is sent to Members at least 
four weeks before the meeting of the WGI. The meetings of the WGI are convened by a sep arate 
airgram issued on the same day the airgram for the Committee's regular meeting is issued.  
 
 
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  - As agreed by the Committee, the meetings of the WGI are held in an informal, off -the-record 
format  to create an environment where Members can speak openly ab out their practices. For this 
reason, no minutes are prepared for the meetings of the WGI.  
 
The Informal Group on Anti -Circumvention (IGAC):  
 
- The IGAC is dedicated to discussions on circumvention of anti -dumping measures, and 
anti-circumvention measures,  in the context of anti -dumping. That is, it is a body dedicated to a 
specific "theme". This Group was created in 1997 pursuant to a Ministerial Decision of the Uruguay 
Round.9 When the IGAC meets, its meetings are held back -to-back with regular meetings of the 
Committee.  
 
- In 2015, Members agreed that meetings of the IGAC would take place only if a Member submitted 
a new discussion paper, or requested that a meeting be held. A  reference to the IGAC is also included 
in the annotated draft agenda of the Committee and the meeting is convened by a separate airgram 
issued on the same day the Committee's regular meeting airgram is issued.  
 
2.3.2   Notifications  
- The Secretariat has modifie d the Handbook of Anti -dumping -Related Notification Obligations and 
the mock examples for legislative notifications to be submitted. The handbook and examples, which 
can be found on the WTO anti -dumping webpage, can provide additional clarity as to how and  when 
the notification obligations should be fulfilled.  
 
- In the area of notifications of anti -dumping actions, the Committee developed, in 1995, a format 
for the submission of the semi -annual reports of anti -dumping investigations conducted and actions 
taken by Members (G/ADP/1). In the same year, it also developed a minimum information format 
for ad hoc notifications of anti -dumping actions (G/ADP/2). In 2008, the Committee revised the 
semi-annual report format, including a detailed set of guidelines to make the format more 
user-friendly and accurate (G/ADP/1/Rev.1). In addition, in 2006 the Committee developed new 
guidelines for the minimum information format for ad hoc notifications. These guidelines include a 
non-exhaustive list of the types of anti -dumping actions to be notified by Members (G/ADP/2/Rev.1). 
These guidelines were further updated in 2009 to encourage additional transparency 
(G/ADP/2/Rev.2). In 2015, the Secretariat delivered two presentations on how to use the formats, 
the slides of which  as well as the recording of the presentations remain online to date and are 
accessible to all delegations.  
 
- In 2009, a streamlining process of the different types of notifications was conducted, which yielded 
two important decisions by the Committee. Th e first was the decision to create a one -time 
notification format for Members that do not have investigating authorities and have never imposed 
anti-dumping measures. For Members in this situation, this one -time notification replaces the 
obligation to prov ide a nil notification of anti -dumping actions every six months. This is a tangible 
improvement that both provides transparency and assists developing countries and LDCs in 
complying with this notification obligation by alleviating their burden in submitti ng repeated nil 
notifications. To date, 53 Members have submitted such one -time notification. The second 
Committee decision in this context was to require all Members to submit all their anti -dumping 
notifications electronically, in an effort to do away wi th paper submissions.  
 
- The Committee's annual report includes several tables reflecting the status of all types of 
notifications submitted by Members and those that are missing.  
 
- At every regular Committee meeting, the Chair raises the issue of missin g notifications under each 
agenda item pertaining to the notification obligations, and strongly urges Members to fulfil their 
notification obligations. This is reflected in the minutes of all Committee meetings and in the 
Committee's annual reports.  
 
- The Secretariat has been involved in a series of projects aimed at digitizing the trade remedy 
notification process and improving the way information on the use of trade remedy measures is 
compiled, stored and presented to Members. A major development in this  regard was the official 
launch, in  2021, of the Anti -Dumping Notification Portal, which allows Members to electronically 
 
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  create and submit through a dedicated e -platform semi -annual reports, while minimizing effort and 
reducing reporting errors; and the l ater addition of the "Explore Data" function, which provides online 
access to all information submitted by Members in their semi -annual reports. The Secretariat has 
given presentations, demonstrations and training sessions tailored to the needs of individu al 
delegations to increase Members' awareness of the Portal and its functionality. The Portal has 
received very positive feedback from Members.  
 
- In parallel, the Secretariat has upgraded and restructured the anti -dumping database, which has 
required int ensive work with individual Members to clean up past records in those databases. This 
work has culminated in the development of the Trade Remedies Data Portal, a searchable database 
of information on trade remedy actions that presents the information notif ied in semi -annual reports 
in an accessible, customizable and user -friendly manner. The Data Portal was presented to Members 
at the Committee meeting in October 2022, and went live on 1 November 2022.  
 
- During the weeks in which the Committee meets, the S ecretariat regularly receives many 
delegations attending the meeting (Geneva and capital -based officials), and responds to all 
questions they may have on the functioning of the Committee, and provides information on i -trADe 
and MADRE, as well on the anti -dumping notification and data portals.  
 
2.3.3   Reports prepared by the Secretariat  
- The Secretariat circulates monthly reports of ad hoc anti -dumping actions notified by Members. 
Those reports list all of the notifications received by the Secretariat, which it archives electronically 
and makes available to all interested delegations upo n request.  
 
- Prior to the October meeting each year, the Secretariat also issues a draft annual report to Members 
for comments. This report is adopted by the Committee at the end of the October meeting.  
 
2.3.4   Participation by external stakeholders  
The Interna tional Monetary Fund, World Bank and UNCTAD have regular Observer status in the 
Committee. Pursuant to a decision of the Committee in October 1998, the Organization of African, 
Caribbean and Pacific States ("OACPS")  and the OECD are invited to attend meeti ngs on an ad hoc  
basis.   
 
2.3.5   Work with other Committees or WTO bodies  
Latest examples of presentations made jointly by the Committees on ADP and SCM are as 
follows:  
 
- in October 2015, explaining the notification formats for semi -annual (G/ADP/1/Rev.1) and ad hoc 
reports (G/ADP/2/Rev.2) (audio and presentations placed onlin e until now for Members' benefit);  
 
- in October 2022, introducing the Trade Remedies Data Portal (audio and presentations placed 
online for Members' benefit).  
 
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