UNITED STATES – CONTINUED DUMPING AND SUBSIDY OFFSET ACT OF 2000
Document: Status Report by the United States Addendum
Date: 10 January 2006
Document codes: WT/DS217/16/Add.23; WT/DS234/24/Add.23
Complainant: Canada, Mexico
Respondent: U.S.
Third parties: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, EU, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Thailand
Dispute stage: Implementation & Compliance
Agreements cited: Art. 5.4  Anti-dumpingArt. 5  Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM)Art. VI  GATT 1994Art. 8, 18  Anti-dumpingArt. 11.4, 18, 32  Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM)Art. XVI  Agreement Establishing the World Trade OrganizationArt. 10  Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM)Art. X  GATT 1994Art. 1  Anti-dumping

UNITED STATES – CONTINUED DUMPING AND
SUBSIDY OFFSET ACT OF 2000

Status Report by the United States

Addendum

 The following communication, dated 9 January 2006, from the delegation of the United States
to the Chairman of the Dispute Settlement Body, is circulated pursuant to Article 21.6 of the DSU.

Status Report Regarding Implementation of the DSB Recommendations and Rulings

in the Disputes
(WT/DS217 and WT/DS234)

The United States submits this report in accordance with Article 21.6 of the Understanding on
Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes.

On 27 January 2003, the Dispute Settlement Bo dy ("DSB") adopted its recommendations and
rulings in (WT/DS217 and
WT/DS234). At the same DSB meeting, the United States informed the DSB of its intention to
implement the recommendations and rulings of the DSB in connection with this matter.

On 7 February 2005, the US Administration pr oposed repeal of the Continued Dumping and
Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 ("CDSOA") in its budget proposal for fiscal year 2006. On
3 March 2005, legislation that would repeal the CDSOA was introduced in the US House of
Representatives (H.R. 1121). That bill was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

On 9 September 2005, an amendment (No. 1680) to appropriations legislation (H.R. 2862, the
"Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006") was filed in the
US Senate. The amendment would prohibit the di stribution of CDSOA funds unless distribution of
such funds would not be inconsistent with US WTO obligations.

On 26 October 2005, the House Committee on Ways and Means approved a budget
reconciliation package (H.R. 4241) that include d repeal of the CDSOA. The House Budget
Committee approved the package on 3 November 2005. On 18 November 2005, that bill passed the
full House. A Conference Committee, tasked with finding a compromise between budget bills passed
by the House and Senate, preserved the House provi sion that would repeal the CDSOA in its Report
on 19 December 2005. The House approved the legisl ation (the "Deficit Reduc tion Act of 2005") as
reported by the Conference Committee the same day. On 21 December 2005, the Senate voted to
approve the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, with one modification unrelated to the CDSOA provision.

Because the Senate modified the legislation after it was approved by the House, the House will need
to vote on the modified legislation before it can be presented to the President.

The US Administration will work with the Congress to enact legislation, and will continue to
confer with the complaining parties in these dis putes, in order to reach a mutually satisfactory
resolution of this matter.