WT/DS217/69  
 
20 May 2016  
(16-2770)  Page: 1/2  
  Original: English  
 
  UNITED STATES – CONTINUED DUMPING AND 
SUBSIDY OFFSET ACT OF 2000 
COMMUNICATION FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION 
The following communication, dated 13 May 2016, from the delegation of the European Union to 
the Chairperson of the Dispute Settlement Body, is circulated at the request of that delegation. 
 
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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 and 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 the 
Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes ("DSU"). In that 
request, the European Communities undertook to noti fy 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 originating in the United States of Am erica (WT/DS217/47). The list of products subject 
to this suspension of concessions was modi fied on 1 May 2006 (WT/DS217/49), on 1 May 2007 
(WT/DS217/51), on 1 May 2008 (W T/DS217/53), on 1 May 2009 (W T/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) and on 1 May 2015 (WT/DS217/67). The relevant Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/654 of 28 February 2016 maintains 
unchanged the list of products subject to retaliation . On the other hand, the rate of additional duty 
to which those products are subjected decreases to 0,45% in order to adjust to the level of 
retaliation.  
The updated list is attached. The suspension, which applies as from 1 May 2016, covers, over one 
year, a total value of trade that does not exceed USD 887 696. 
The amount of USD 887 696 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 1 232 911 
collected from the European Union' 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 2015, published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on 
12 November 2015, and additionally on the basis of  updated annual disbursement reports for 2011 
and 2014 published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on 12 April 2015.  
The European Union kindly asks the Secretariat to circulate this notification to the Members of the 
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Products subject to a 0,45% additional import duty 
as from 1 May 2016 
The products on which the 0,45% additional import  duty would apply are those classified under the 
listed eight-digit CN codes, as provided in a nnex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2658/87 on the 
tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff as replaced by Commission 
Regulation (EC) No 1810/2004 (OJ L 327, 30.10.2004, p. 1). The product descriptions hereunder are given for information purpose only. 
 
 
Subject to the 
0,45% additional 
import duty as 
from 1 May 2016  
 
CN codes   
 
Description of products 
  
0710 40 00  
Sweet corn, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in 
water, frozen 
9003 19 30 Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, of base 
metal 
8705 10 00 Crane lorries (excl. breakdown lorries) 
6204 62 31 Women or girls’ cotton denim trousers and breeches 
  
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