G/ADP/W/508  
G/SCM/W/584  
G/SG/W/254  
4 November  2021 
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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  2021 regular  meetings , and in conjunction with the April  2022 
regular  meetings  of the Committees on Anti -Dumping Practices, Subsidie s and 
Countervailing  Measures, and Safeguards, which will be held in the week of 25 April  2022. 
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 18 March  2022 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  2022, will be reflected . Pursuant to procedures adopted by the Committees1,2, 
notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 14 March 2022 will be 
reviewed at the relevant Committee's April  2022  regular meeting . 
1.1  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers following up on the October  2021 
regular meetings:  
15 November  2021  Written follow -up to questions posed orally at the October 2021  
regular meeting s regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at those 
meetings .  
6 December  2021  Written answers to all written questions (those posed in writing prior to 
the regular meeting s by the deadline  of 4 October 2021  and those 
posed orally at the meeting s and followed -up in writing after the regular 
meeting s by the above deadline of 15 November  2021 ) regarding 
notifications of legislation reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings 
in October 2021 . 
1.2  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers in conjunction with the April  2022 
regular meetings:  
14 March  2022 Written questions regarding previously -reviewed notifications of 
legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in 
April  2022. 
4 April  2022  Written questions regarding new notifications of legislation to be 
reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings in April  2022. Such 
questions  would be answered orally at the April  2022 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/508 • G/SCM/W/584 • G/SG/W/254  
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  11 April  2022  Written answers to written questions submitted by 14 March  2022 
regarding previously -reviewed notifications of legislation, for 
consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in April 2022. 
2.   SUBSIDY NOTIFICATIONS  
2.1  New and Full Subsidy Notifications  
2021 n ew and full notifications were due on 30 June 2021 . Pursuant to the procedures adopted 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 3 January 2022  may be 
reviewed at the special meeting that will be held in April 2022 . The Secretariat will circulate to 
Members, shortly after, a list of 2021 new and full s ubsidy notifications, and any other new and full 
notifications not previously reviewed, that will be on the agenda for review at that meeting.  
15 November  2021 Written follow -up questions regarding the subsidy notifications reviewed 
at the Committee's spec ial meeting in October  2021  that had not been 
reviewed at previous meetings . 
6 December 2021  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  2021  that had not been reviewed at 
previous meetings . 
24 January 2022  Written questions regarding 2021 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 2022 . 
28 March 2022  Written answers to written questions regarding 2021 new and full 
subsidy notifications, and other new and full notifications not  
previously -reviewed, to be reviewed a t the Committee's special meeting 
in April 2022 . 
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 27 April 2021, the Committee agreed that the procedures contained in 
G/SCM/117 would apply to the review of the 2021 new and full subsidy notifications.