WT/DS217/80  
 
22 June 2022  
(22-4831) Page: 1/2 
  Original: English  
 
UNITED STATES – CONTINUED DUMPING AND  
SUBSIDY OFFSET ACT OF 2000  
COMMUNICATION FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION  
The following communication, dated 20 June 2022 , was received from the delegation of the 
European  Union  with the request that it be circulated to the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB).  
 
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On 26 November 2004, the Dispute Settlement Body ("DSB") granted authorization to the 
European  Union to suspend concessions and related obligations under the General Agreement on 
Tariff an d Trade 1994 ("GATT 1994") in accordance with the decision of the Arbitrator in 
United  States – Continued Dumping and Subsidies Offset Act of 2000 . The authorization was made 
pursuant to the European Union request (WT/DS217/39) made under Article 22.7 of t he 
Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes ("DSU"). In that 
request, the European Communities undertook to notify the DSB every year the list of products on 
which the additional import duty would apply, prior to the entry  into force of a level of suspension 
of concessions.  
 
On 29 April 2005, the European Union notified the DSB that it was suspending, as of 1 May 2005, 
the application of concessions and related obligations under GATT 1994 on imports of certain 
products orig inating in the United States of America (WT/DS217/47). The list of products subject to 
this suspension of concessions was modified on 1 May 2006 (WT/DS217/49), on 1 May 2007 
(WT/DS217/51), on 1 May 2008 (WT/DS217/53), on 1 May 2009 (WT/DS217/55), on 1 May 2010 
(WT/DS 217/57), on 1 May 2011 (WT/DS217/59), on 1 May 2012 (WT/DS217/61), on 1 May 2013 
(WT/DS217/63), on 1 May 2014 (WT/DS217/65), on 1 May 2015 (WT/DS217/67), on 1 May 2016 
(WT/DS217/69), on 1 May 2017 (WT/DS217/71), on 1 May 2018 (WT/DS217/73), on 1 May 2019 
(WT/DS217/75) and on 1 May 2020 (WT/DS217/77).  
 
The Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/704 of 26 February 2021 (OJ L 146, 29 April 2021) 
maintains unchanged the list of products subject to retaliation. The rate of additional duty to whic h 
those products are subjected increases to 0,1% in order to adjust to the level of retaliation.  
 
The updated list is attached. The suspension, which applies as from 1 May 2021, covers, over one 
year, a total value of trade that does not exceed USD 236 31 4,72. 
 
The amount of USD 236 314,72 is the European Union's current level of authorization established 
through arbitration under Article 22.6 of the DSU. It represents 72 percent of USD  328 214,89 
collected from the European Union's exports and disbursed to U.S.  companies in the distribution 
under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 for the most recent year for which 
data are available. The amount of relevant disbursements was identified based on the CDSOA Annual 
Report for Fiscal Year 2020 , published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on 3 December 2020.  
 
The European Union kindly asks the Secretariat to circulate this notification to the Members of the 
DSB. 
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  Products subject to a 0,1% additional import duty  
as from 1 May 2021  
 
The pro ducts on which the 0,1% additional import duty would apply are those that are classified 
under the eight -digit CN codes and match the given descriptions.  
 
CN codes  Description of products  
0710 40 00  Sweet  corn, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling  in water, frozen  
6204 62 31  Women or girls’ cotton denim trousers and breeches, other than industrial 
and occupational, of denim cotton  
8705 10 00  Crane lorries (excl. breakdown lorries)  
ex 9003 19 00 Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, of base metal  
 
 
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