G/ADP/W/509  
G/SCM/W/586  
G/SG/W/255  
 
2 May 2022 
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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 April  2022 regular  meetings , and in conjunction with the October 2022 
regular  meetings  of the Committees on Anti -Dumping Practices, Subsidies and 
Count ervailing  Measures, and Safeguards, which will be held in the week of 24 October 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 16 September  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 October  2022, will be reflected . Pursuant to procedures adopted by the 
Committees1,2, notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 
12 September  2022 will be reviewed at the relevant Committee 's October  2022  regular meeting . 
1.1  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers following up on the April  2022 
regula r meetings:  
16 May 2022 Written follow -up to questions posed orally at the April  2022 regular 
meeting s regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at those 
meetings .  
6 June  2022 Written answers to all written questions (those posed in writing prior to 
the regular meeting s by the deadline  of 4 April  2022 and those posed 
orally at the meeting s and followed -up in writing after the regular 
meeting s by the above deadline of 16 May 2022) regarding 
notifications of legislation reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings 
in April  2022. 
1.2  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers in conjunction with the 
October  2022 regular meetings:  
12 September  2022 Written questions regarding previously -reviewed notifications of 
legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in 
October  2022. 
3 October  2022  Written questions regarding new notifications of legislation to be 
reviewed at the Committee s' regular meetings in October  2022. Such 
questions  would be answered orally at the October  2022 regular 
meeting s and subsequently followed by written answers to be submitted 
 
1 G/ADP/W/284/Rev.1 – G/SCM/W/293/Rev.1.  
2 G/SG/W/116.  G/ADP/W/509 • G/SCM/W/586 • G/SG/W/255  
 
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  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. 
10 October  2022  Written answers to written questions submitted by 
12 September  2022 regarding previously -reviewed notifications of 
legislation, for consideration at the  Committees' regular meetings in 
October  2022. 
2.   SUBSIDY NOTIFICATIONS  
2.1  New and Full Subsidy Notifications  
2021 new 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 27 June  2022  may be 
reviewed at the special meeting that will be held in October  2022 . The Secretariat will circulate to 
Members, shortly af ter, a list of 2021 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.  
16 May 202 2 Written follow -up questions regarding the subsidy notifications rev iewed 
at the Committee's special meeting in April 2022  that had not been 
reviewed at previous meetings . 
6 June 2022  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 April 2022  that had not been reviewed at previous 
meetings . 
26 July  2022  Written questions rega rding 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 October  2022 . 
27 September  2022  Written answers to written questions regarding 2021 new and fu ll 
subsidy notifications, and other new and full notifications not 
previously -reviewed, to be reviewed at the Committee's special meeting 
in October  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.