UNITED STATES – CONTINUED DUMPING AND SUBSIDY OFFSET ACT OF 2000
Document: Communication from the European Communities
Date: 2 May 2006
Document codes: WT/DS217/49
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 28 April 2006, 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 Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 . The authorization was made pursuant to
the European Communities' request () made under Article 22.7 of the Understanding on
Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Di sputes ("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 Stat es of America (). The list of products
subject to this suspension of concessions will be modified on 1 May 2006. Commission Regulation
(EC) No 632/2006
1 will add products classified under eight codes of the EC's tariff and statistical
nomenclature to 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 2006 covers, over one year, a total value of trade that does not exceed US$36,91 million.

 US$36,91 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$51,26 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 2005, published by US Customs and Border Protection on 29 November 2005.

 The European Communities asks the Secretariat to circulate this notification to the Members
of the DSB.

1 Commission Regulation (EC) No 632/2006 of 24 April 2006 replacing Annexes I and II 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 111, 25.4.2006, p. 5.

Products that will be subject to a 15% additional import duty

as from 1 May 2006

The products on which the 15% additional import 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 articles of stationery, of paper and paperboard, and
book covers of paper or pa perboard (excl. registers, account books, Note
books, order books, 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 br eeches, of synthetic fibres, industrial and
occupational (excl. knitted or crocheted and bib and brace overalls)
6204 69 18 Women's or girls' trousers and breeches, 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 a nd brace overalls, breeches and shorts (other
than swimwear), knitted or crocheted, of synthetic fibres
6203 43 11 Men's or boys' trousers and breech es of synthetic fibres, industrial and
occupational (excl. knitted or crocheted and bib and brace overalls)
6103 43 00 Men's or boys' trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts (other
than swimwear), knitted or crocheted, of synthetic fibres
6204 63 18 Women's or girls' trousers and br eeches, 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 breeches of synthetic fibres (excl. knitted or
crocheted, industrial and occupational, 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 synthe tic fibres (excl. knitted or crocheted,
underpants and swimwear)
0710 40 00 Sweetcorn, uncooked or cooked by st eaming 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)

CN codes Description of products
6301 40 10 Blankets and travelli ng 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 travelling rugs of co tton, knitted or crocheted (excl. electric,
table covers, bedspreads and articles of bedding and similar furnishing of
heading 9404)
6301 30 90 Blankets and travelling rugs of co tton (excl. knitted or crocheted, electric,
table covers, bedspreads and articles of bedding and similar furnishing of
heading 9404)
6301 40 90 Blankets and travelli ng rugs of synthetic fibres (e xcl. knitted or crocheted,
electric, table covers, bedspreads and articles of bedding and similar
furnishing of heading 9404)
4818 50 00 Articles of apparel and clothing access ories, of paper pulp, paper, cellulose
wadding or webs of cellulose fibres (exc l. footware and parts thereof, incl.
insoles, heel pieces and similar removable products, gaiters and similar
products, headgear and part
9009 11 00 Electrostatic photocopying apparatu s, operating by reproducing the original
image directly onto the copy [direct process]
9009 12 00 Electrostatic photocopying apparatu s, operating by reproducing the original
image via an intermediate onto the copy [indirect process]
To become subject to the 15% additional import duty from
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)