. /. RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/ADP/AHG/R/18 
3 March 2006  
 (06-0928) 
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices 
Working Group on Implementation  
 
 
 
SUMMARY REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE 
WORKING GROUP ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 
COMMITTEE ON ANTI-DUMPING PRACTICES, 
31 OCTOBER 2005 
 
Note by the Secretariat  
  
1. The Working Group on Implementation ("the Group") met in formal session on 31 October 
2005 and held substantive discussi ons concerning the topics referred to it by the Committee on Anti-
Dumping Practices ("the Committee") on May 2003.
1  The Group adopted the agenda for the meeting, 
which had been circulated in WTO/AIR/2702, dated 21 October 2005.  In response to the request that 
all WTO standing bodies should, in light of the pr eparatory work still to be done for the Hong Kong 
Ministerial Meeting in December 2005 conduct their necessary business as efficiently as possible, the Group adopted an agenda with limited items. 
2. The Chairperson, (Ms. Frida Collste, Sweden ) noted that the Group would take up the two 
topics for discussion in the order set forth in the agenda, as adopted.  These were:  (a) conduct of 
verification; and (b) export prices to thir d countries or constructed normal value. 
3. Turning to the first item on the agenda, Artic le 6.7 – conduct of verification, the Chairperson 
reminded Members that the Group had started its di scussion of this topic during the October 2003 
meeting and that the discussions to date had been based on papers
2 submitted by Australia;  the United 
States;  Canada;  the European Communities;  Arge ntina;  New Zealand;  Turkey;  and Egypt.  
Although a paper by Pakistan, circulated as document G/ADP/AHG/W/171, was introduced during the last meeting, Pakistan requested that discussions  on it be deferred to this  meeting for an expert 
from capital to be present to respond to any questions which Members might have. 
4. The discussions focused on:  whether verifica tion takes place before or after the preliminary 
determination is made;  the duration of the verificat ion visit;  whether all e xporters are verified and 
criteria used when deciding not to verify all exporter s;  notice of deficient responses;  and, opportunity 
to submit supplemental information.  Issues such as whether a separate disclosur e of the results of the 
verification is made, and if so, when, and whether exporters are granted an opportunity to comment on 
the verification report were also raised. 
5. As the Group had discussed this topic over a period of time, covering the different practices 
of a sizeable number of Members, and as some common elements seemed to emerge which might form the basis for discussing a draft recommendation, the Group decided to request the Secretariat to 
prepare a draft recommendation on Article 6.7 – Conduct of Verification for discussion by the group during its Spring 2006 meeting. 
                                                     
 
1 The list of topics referred to the Working Group was circulated to Members in document 
G/ADP/W/433. 
2 Circulated as documents G/ADP/AHG/W/148, 152, 156, 157, 159, 164 and 170, respectively.    G/ADP/AHG/R/18 
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6. Turning next to the second item on the agenda, calculation of normal value: export prices to 
third countries or constructed normal value – Article  2.2, the Chairperson reminded Members that the 
Group had also started its discussion of this t opic during the October 2003 meeting and that the 
discussions to date had been based on papers
3 submitted by Australia;  New Zealand;  Venezuela;  and 
the United States.  Pakistan introduced its pape r, circulated as G/ADP/AHG/W/172.  During the 
ensuing discussions issues such as:  the criteria used when deciding which third country to use;  how 
to establish that the product exported to third countr y was a "like product";  and how to determine that 
the sales transactions to third country were representative, were discussed. 
3. In concluding the discussions, the Chairpers on urged other significant users of anti-dumping, 
which had not yet submitted papers on their respect ive practices on any of the four topics currently 
before the Group, to submit papers for discussion at the Group's next meeting.  The Chairperson also 
indicated to the Group that she would raise the issu e of the future work of the Group at the Spring 
2006 meeting for discussion and that Members shoul d keep in mind the possibility of developing a 
further list of topics to be proposed for discussion. 
4. The Group agreed that its next meeting would be scheduled, in conjunction with the next 
regular meeting of the Committee, on 24 April 2006, and that papers and other submissions for the 
Group's next meeting should be transmitted to  the Secretariat no later than 13 March 2006. 
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3 Circulated as documents G/ADP/AHG/W/149, 161, 162 and 166, respectively.