UNITED STATES – CONTINUED DUMPING AND SUBSIDY OFFSET ACT OF 2000
Document: Communication from the European Communities
Date: 8 April 2008
Document codes: WT/DS217/53
Complainant: Australia, Brazil, Chile, EU, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand
Respondent: U.S.
Third parties: Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Norway
Dispute stage: Implementation & Compliance
Agreements cited: Art. X:3  GATT 1994Art. 18.4  Anti-dumpingArt. 32.5  Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM)Art. VI:3  GATT 1994Art. XVI:4  Agreement Establishing the World Trade OrganizationArt. 1, 5.4  Anti-dumpingArt. 4.10, 7.9, 10, 11.4, 18, 32.1  Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM)Art. 8  Anti-dumpingArt. VI:2  GATT 1994Art. 18.1  Anti-dumping

UNITED STATES – CONTINUED DUMPING AND
SUBSIDY OFFSET ACT OF 2000

Communication from the European Communities

 The following communication, dated 3 April 2008, from the delegation of the European
Communities to the Chairman of the Dispute Settlemen t Body, is circulated at the request of that
delegation.

 On 26 November 2004, the Dispute Settlement Body ("DSB") granted authorization to the
European Communities 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 Communities' 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 notify 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 Communities no tified the DSB that it was suspending, as of
1 May 2005, the application of concessions and re lated obligations under GA TT 1994 on imports of
certain products originating in the United States of America () . The list of products
subject to this suspension of concessions w as modified on 1 May 2006 (), on
1 May 2007 () and will be modified again on 1 May 2008. Commission Regulation
(EC) No 283/2008
1 will remove products classified under 30 c odes of the EC's tariff and statistical
nomenclature from the list of products subject to an ad valorem additional duty of 15% when
originating in the United States of America. The updated list is attached. The suspension that will
apply as from 1 May 2008 covers, over one year, a total value of trade that does not exceed
US$33,38 million.

 US$33,38 million is the European Communities' current level of authorization established
through arbitration under Article 22.6 of the DSU. It represents 72 per cent of US$46,36 million
collected from the European Communities' exports a nd disbursed to US 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 disburse ments was identified using the CDSOA Annual Report
for Fiscal Year 2007, published by US Customs and Border Protection on 5 December 2007.

1Commission Regulation (EC) No 283/2008 of 27 March 2008 replacing Annex I to Council
Regulation (EC) No 673/2005 establishing additional cust oms duties on imports of certain products originating
in the United States of America, OJ L 86, 28.3.2008, p. 19. The Regulation is available in all EC official
languages at: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/.

 The European Communities requests the WTO Secret ariat to circulate this notification to the
Members of the DSB.

Products that will be subject to a 15% additional import duty
as from 1 May 2008

 The products on which the 15% additional im port duty will apply are those classified under
the listed eight-digit CN codes, as provided in annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2658/87 on
the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff as amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 493/2005 (OJ L 82, 31.3.2005, p. 1). The product descriptions
hereunder are given for information purpose only.

CN codes Description of products
4820 10 90 Writing pads and the lik e, of paper or paperboard
4820 50 00 Albums for samples or coll ections, of paper or paperboard
4820 90 00 Blotting pads and similar ar ticles of stationery, of paper and
paperboard, and book covers of paper or paperboa rd (excl. registers,
account books, Note books, order b ooks, receipt books, letter pads,
memorandum pads, diaries, exercise books, binders, folders, file
covers, manifold business forms and interleaved carbon sets, and
albums for samples or for collections)
4820 30 00 Binders (other than book covers), folders and file covers, of paper or
paperboard
4820 10 50 Diaries with calendars , of paper or paperboard
6204 63 11 Women's or girls' trousers and breeches, of synthetic fibres, industrial
and occupational (excl. knitted or crocheted and bib and brace
overalls)
6204 69 18 Women's or girls' trousers and br eeches, of artificial fibres (not of cut
corduroy, of denim or knitted or crocheted and excl. industrial and
occupational clothing, bib and brace overalls, briefs and track suit
bottoms)
6204 63 90 Women's or girls' shorts of synthetic fibres (excl. knitted or
crocheted, panties and swimwear)
6104 63 00 Women's or girls' trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and
shorts (other than swimwear), knitted or crocheted, of synthetic fibres
6203 43 11 Men's or boys' trousers and br eeches of synthetic fibres, industrial
and occupational (excl. knitted or crocheted and bib and brace
overalls)
6103 43 00 Men's or boys' trousers, bi b and brace overalls, breeches and shorts
(other than swimwear), knitted or crocheted, of synthetic fibres
Subject to the 15% additional import duty since 1 May 2005
6204 63 18 Women's or girls' trousers and breeches, of synthetic fibres (not of cut
corduroy, of denim or knitted or crocheted and excl. industrial and
occupational clothing, bib and brace overalls, briefs and track suit
bottoms)

6203 43 19 Men's or boys' trousers and br eeches of synthetic fibres (excl. knitted
or crocheted, industrial and occ upational, bib and brace overalls and
underpants)
6204 69 90 Women's or girls' trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts
of textile materials (excl. of wool, fine animal hair, cotton or artificial
fibres, knitted or crocheted, panties and swimwear)
6203 43 90 Men's or boys' shorts of synthetic fibres (exc l. knitted or crocheted,
underpants and swimwear)
0710 40 00 Sweetcorn, 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
Subject to the 15% additional import
duty since 1 May 2005
8705 10 00 Crane lorries (excl. breakdown lorries)
6301 40 10 Blankets and travelling rugs of synthetic fibres, knitted or crocheted
(excl. electric, table covers, bedspreads and articles of bedding and
similar furnishing of heading 9404)
6301 30 10 Blankets and trav elling rugs of cotton, knitted or crocheted (excl.
electric, table covers, bedspreads and articles of bedding and similar
furnishing of heading 9404)
6301 30 90 Blankets and trave lling rugs of cotton (excl. knitted or crocheted,
electric, table covers, bedspreads and articles of bedding and similar
furnishing of heading 9404)
6301 40 90 Blankets and trav elling rugs of synthetic fibres (excl. knitted or
crocheted, electric, table covers, bedspreads and articles of bedding
and similar furnishing of heading 9404)
4818 50 00 Articles of apparel and clothi ng accessories, of paper pulp, paper,
cellulose wadding or webs of cellulo se fibres (excl. footware and parts
thereof, incl. insoles, heel pi eces and similar removable products,
gaiters and similar products, headgear and part
9009 11 00 Electrostatic photocopying appa ratus, operating by reproducing the
original image directly onto the copy [direct process]
9009 12 00 Electrostatic photocopying appa ratus, operating by reproducing the
original image via an intermediate onto the copy [indirect process]
Subject to the 15% additional import duty since 1 May 2006 8467 21 99 Drills of all kinds for working in the hand, with self-contained electric
motor operating with an external source of power (excl.
electropneumatic drills)
4803 00 31 Creped paper for household or sanitary purposes and webs of cellulose
fibres 'tissues', in rolls of a width > 36 cm or in square or rectangular
sheets with one side > 36 cm and the other side > 15 cm in the
unfolded state, weighing <= 25 g/m¦ per ply
Subject to the 15%
additional duty
since 1 May 2007
4818 30 00 Tablecloths and serviettes of paper pulp, paper, cellulose wadding or
webs of cellulose fibres