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ORGANIZATIONG/ADP/W/429
7 November 2002
(02-6133)
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices Original:  English
DRAFT RECOMMENDATION REGARDING ANNUAL REVIEWS OF THE
ANTI-DUMPING AGREEMENT
The draft recommendation set out below, based on a proposal by the United States (footnote -
document G/ADP/W/427, 29 October 2002) was made  available to Members as a room document
during the informal meeting of the Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices on 23 October 2003.
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Paragraph 7.4 of the WTO Implementation Decision states that the Ministerial Conference
“Takes note that Article 18.6 of the Agreement on the Implementation of Article VI of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 requires the Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices to review
annually the implementation and operation of the Agreement taking into account the objectives
thereof.  The Committee on Anti-dumping Practices is instructed to draw up guidelines for the
improvement of annual reviews and to report its views and recommendations to the General Councilfor subsequent decision within 12 months.”
Article 18.6 of the Agreement states:  “The Committee shall review annually the
implementation and operation of this Agreement taking into account the objectives thereof.  The
Committee shall inform annually the Council for Trad e in Goods of developments during the period
covered by such reviews.”
The Committee considers that improvements in the reporting of anti-dumping activity under
the Agreement and in the Committee’s annual reviews are important to promoting transparency.
Therefore, the Committee recommends the following improvements that would provide useful
information to Members and the public, and would enhance transparency under the Agreement:
1. The Committee’s annual report under Article 18.6 should include in the Summary of
Anti-Dumping Actions
1, in addition to the column currently included that lists the initiations
reported by each Member, a comparable column listing the number of antidumping
revocations/terminations reported by each Member during the reporting period.  Where aMember has not provided such information, the report should note this omission. Members
are already requested to report the number of terminations in a separate table as an annex to
their semi-annual reports of anti-dumping activity. Consequently, such information should be
included in the Article 18.6 annual report.
2. The Committee’s Article 18.6 annual report should also include a chart comparing for each
Member the number of preliminary and final measures reported in its semi-annual reports
                                                     
1 See Report (2001) of the Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices, Annex C, G/L/495
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with the number of notices of preliminary and final measures the Member submitted to the
Secretariat for the comparable period.
3. WTO Members should report to the AD Committee for each AD investigation whether or not
a public hearing was held at which both interested parties supporting the application, and
interested parties opposing the application, had an opportunity to present their views, orwhether all interested parties waived a right to a public hearing.  The Committee’s
Article 18.6 annual report should indicate for each Member the number of investigations in
which public hearings were held at which both interested parties supporting the application,
and interested parties opposing the application, had an opportunity to present their views.
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