. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/ADP/Q2/MEX/2 
14 November 2008 
 (08-5556) 
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices Original:   English/ 
 Spanish 
 
 
 
SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF MEXICO1 
UNDER ARTICLE 16.4 OF THE AGREEMENT 
 
Replies to the Questions from the UN ITED STATES to MEXICO Posed Orally  
at the October 2008 Meeting of the Committee  
   The following communication, dated 10 November 2008, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of Mexico. 
 
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Question 1 
 
 The United States notes that Mexico submitted its semi-annual report in Spanish on 
16 October 2008, significantly past the 31 August 2008 deadline.  While we appreciate the 
difficulty in assembling the information for the se mi-annual reports, such a late submission does 
not allow sufficient time for the Secretariat tran slation so that all Members are able to review 
these reports before the Committee meetings are he ld.  We would ask that Mexico's semi-annual 
report for January – June 2008 be placed on the Spring Committee agenda so that we have 
adequate time to review it.  
Reply
 
  Mexico has no objection to the inclusion of the mentioned report in the spring Committee agenda. 
 
Question 2 
 
 We note that the expiry review of Ammonium  Sulphate imports from the United States 
was initiated 22 May 2007.  In its "Decree am ending, supplementing and repealing various 
provisions of the Foreign Trade Act", notified to this Committee in G/ADP/N/1/MEX/1/Suppl.2, 
we note that Article 89F, IV states "Within a period not exceeding 220 days from the date following the publication of the resolution initia ting the review in the Diario Oficial de la 
Federación, the Ministry shall issue the final resolu tion, whereby it may:  a.  Decide to extend 
the countervailing duty in effect for another five  years following the date on which the duty 
lapses.  In so deciding, the Ministry may mo dify the amount thereof;  b.  Eliminate the 
countervailing duty". 
 
 Given that as of the end of the semi-annual reporting period, this proceeding has been 
on-going for more than a year, please state when Mexico will issue the final resolution regarding 
this expiry review. 
                                                     
 
1 G/ADP/N/173/MEX. G/ADP/Q2/MEX/2 
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Reply
 
  The final resolution of the review to whic h the United States refers in its question was 
published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación  (Official Journal) on Thursday, 28 August 2008. 
 
Question 3 
 
 Likewise, we note that there does not appear to have been an expiry review of the 
measure on imports of Red and Golden Delicious  Apples from the United States, though more 
than six years have passed since the listed August 2002 imposition of final antidumping 
measures. 
 
 Please explain why this measure has not been terminated. 
 Reply
 
  The measure imposed in August 2002 was termin ated on 3 July 2007 in compliance with the 
decision of a Mexican court.  The measure in force was introduced by publication in the Diario 
Oficial de la Federación  of 2 November 2006.  In other words, the current measure has only been  in 
force two years, which is why no five-year review has taken place. 
 
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