. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/SCM/73/Add.10 
1 November 2012 
 (12-5991) 
Committee on Subsidies  
and Countervailing Measures  
 
 
 
CONTINUATION FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2013 OF EXTENSION UNDER 
SCM ARTICLE 27.4 OF THE TRANSITION PERIOD FOR THE  
ELIMINATION OF EXPORT SUBSIDIES PURSUANT TO THE  
GENERAL COUNCIL DECISI ON OF 27 JULY 2007  
(WT/L/691) 
 
GUATEMALA 
 
Exemption from Company Tax, Customs Duties and Other Import Taxes  
for the Production Process Relating to Activities of Managers  
and Users of Free Zones 
 
Decision of 23 October 2012 
 
Addendum 
 
  The Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (the "Committee"),    Having regard to the "Procedures for Continuation of Extens ions Pursuant to Article 27.4 of 
the SCM Agreement  of the Transition Period under Article 27.2(b) of the SCM Agreement  for Certain 
Developing Country Members" (document WT /L/691), adopted by the General Council on 
27 July 2007 ("the Procedures");   
 
 Taking into account the updating notification for calendar year 2011 submitted by Guatemala 
pursuant to paragraph 1(c) of the Procedures for the Exemption from Company Tax, Customs Duties 
and Other Import Taxes for the Production Process Re lating to Activities of Managers and Users of 
Free Zones ("the programme");1   
  Recalling that the Committee considered, for purpo ses of the decision in G/SCM/73 taken by 
the Committee on 22 November 2002, Guatemala to be  a developing country Member, whose share of 
world merchandise export trade was not greater th an 0.10 per cent and whose total Gross National 
Income for the year 2000 as published by the Wo rld Bank was at or below US$20 billion, and who 
was otherwise eligible to request an extension pur suant to Article 27.4 of the Agreement on Subsidies 
and Countervailing Measures ("the SCM Agreement");   
 
 Taking note that  Guatemala confirms that the programme has not been modified since 
1 January 2003 so as to make it more favourable in te rms of scope, coverage a nd intensity of benefits 
than it was on 1 September 2001;   
 
                                                      
1 This notification has been circulated in document G/SCM/N/243/GTM dated 11 July 2012.   G/SCM/73/Add.10 
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   On the basis of  the review by the Committee of the information notified pursuant to 
paragraphs 1(c) and 1(d) of the Procedures to verify Guatemala's fulfilment, during the period 
reviewed by the Committee in 2012, of its obliga tions with respect to the programme under the 
transparency and standstill provisions as contained in paragraphs 2 and 3 of th e Procedures, in relation 
to the programme as in existence on 1 September 2001;   
 
 Hereby agrees to continue, until 31 December 2013, pursuant to paragraph 1(c) of the 
Procedures, the extension granted in G/SCM/73, A dd.1-9 and Add.9/Corr.1 of the transition period, 
under Article 27.2(b) of the SCM Agreement , for the elimination of export subsidies which take the 
form of full or partial exemptions from import duti es and internal taxes and which were in existence 
under the programme on 1 Septembe r 2001.  All terms and conditions  and other provisions of the 
Procedures shall apply.      
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