G/ADP/W/510  
G/SCM/W/587  
G/SG/W/256  
 
27 October  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 October  2022 regular  meetings , and in conjunction with the May 2023 
regular  meetings  of the Committees on Anti -Dumping Practices, Subsidies and 
Countervailing  Measures, and Safeguards, which will be held in the week of 1 May 2023. 
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 24 March  2023 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 May 2023, will be reflected . Pursuant to procedures adopted by the Committees1, 
notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 20 March  2023 will be 
reviewed at the relevant Committee 's May 2023 regular meeting . 
1.1  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers following up on the October  2022 
regular meet ings:  
14 November  2022 Written follow -up to questions posed orally at the October  2022 
regular meeting s regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at those 
meetings .  
5 December  2022 Written answers to all written questions (those posed in writing prior to 
the regular meeting s by the deadline  of 3 October  2022 and those 
posed orally at the meeting s and followed -up in writing after the regular 
meeting s by the above deadline of 14 November  2022) regarding 
notifications of legislation reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings 
in October  2022. 
1.2  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers in conjunction with the May 2023 
regular meetings:  
20 March  2023 Written questions regarding previously -reviewed notifications of 
legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in 
May 2023. 
11 April  2023 Written questions regarding new notifications of legislation to be 
reviewed at the Committees' re gular meetings in May 2023 . Such 
questions  would be answered orally at the May 2023  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  and G/SG/W/116 . G/ADP/W/510 • G/SCM/W/587 • G/SG/W/256  
 
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  17 April  2023 Written answers to written questions submitted by 20 March  2023 
regarding previously -reviewed notifications of legislation, for 
consideration at the Commi ttees' regular meetings in May 2023. 
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/1172, only 
notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 4 January  2023 may be 
reviewed at the special meeting that will be held in May 2023. The Secretariat will circulate to 
Members, shortly after, 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.  
14 November  2022 Written follow -up questions regarding the subsidy no tifications reviewed 
at the Committee's special meeting in October  2022  that had not been 
reviewed at previous meetings . 
5 December  2022  Written answers to all follow -up and pending written questions posed in 
connection with the subsidy notifications revie wed at the Committee's 
special meeting in October  2022  that had not been reviewed at 
previous meetings . 
30 January  2023 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 May 2023.  
3 April  2023 Written answers to 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 May 2023. 
2.2  2023 New and Full Subsidy Notifications  
Although they are not due until after the May 2022 meetings of the SCM Committee, and will not be 
on the agendas of those meetings, Members are  reminded that the deadline for 2023 new and 
full notifications is  30 June 2023 . 
2.3  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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2 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.