G/ADP/Q1/SLV/11  
G/SCM/Q1/SLV/11  
G/SG/Q1/SLV/10  
 
24 July 2019  
(19-4912) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Anti -Dumping Practices  
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  
Committee on Safeguards  Original: Spanish  
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS  AND REGULATIONS UND ER 
ARTICLES 18.5, 32.6 AND 12.6 OF THE RELE VANT AGREEMENTS  
REPLIES TO THE QUESTIONS POSED BY MEXICO1 REGARDING  
THE NOTIFICATION OF EL SALVADOR2 
The following communication, dated  22 July 2019, is being circulated at the request of the delegation 
of El Salvador . 
 
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Article 63 of the Special Law on Trade Defence states that the Investigating Authority 
shall consider whether the imposition of measures would be injurious to the pub lic 
interest and that the consideration of public interest shall be conducted on the basis of 
information provided by interested parties or collected by the Investigating Authority in 
this regard during the investigation; it shall also consider the interes ts of the relevant 
domestic industry, the domestic competitiveness of the product under investigation and 
the needs of end -users.  
In this regard, we have the following questions:  
Question 1  
Could El Salvador explain which factors are analysed and how the evaluation for the 
purposes of  consideration of public interest is carried out?  
Question 2  
Could you give an example of the way in which the analysis to determine whether a 
measure would be injurious to the public interest is carried out?  
Question 3  
Could you explain how the consideration of public interest differs from the evaluations of 
the interests of the domestic industry, domestic competitiveness and the needs of 
end-users?  
Question 4  
Could you explain what is specifically considered when evaluating the domestic 
competitiveness of the product under investigation?  
                                                
1 G/ADP/Q1/SLV/9 - G/SCM/Q1/SLV/9 - G/SG/Q1/SLV/8 (dated 5 April 2017).  
2 G/ADP/N/1/SLV/3/Suppl.1 - G/SCM/N/1/SLV/3/Suppl.1 - G/SG/N/1/SLV/3/Suppl.1.  G/ADP/Q1/SLV/11 • G/SCM/Q1/SLV/11 • G/SG/Q1/SLV/10  
 
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  Reply  
The Government of Mexico  asked a number  of questions that are all related to the content  of 
Article  63 of the Special Law on Trade Defence , the purpose of which, as indicate d by the heading 
to the said  Article , is to ensure that the Investigating Authority examine s whether the imposition of 
the measure might  be injurious  to the public  interest  when deciding whether to apply an 
anti-dumping  duty, whether  provisional or definitive . 
In this regard, the said Article provides that the Investigating  Authority shall conduct the 
consideration of public interest on the basis of information  provided by interested  parties or collected 
by the Investigating Auth ority in this regard  during the investigation . 
It is important to mention that the Salvadoran  Investigating Auth ority completed  its first dumping 
investigation  in the framework  of the  Special Law on Trade Defence . However, in the final resolution 
the decision w as taken  to impose definitive  anti-dumping  duties  according to  the dumping  margin 
determined  on the basis of the evidence and information collected during the investigation . 
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