WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/DS76/10
13 January 2000
(00-0133)
Original:  English
JAPAN - MEASURES AFFECTING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Communication from Japan
The following communication, dated 10 January 2000, from the Permanent Mission of Japan
to the Chairman of the Dispute Settlement Body, is circulated at the request of Japan.
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Upon instructions from my government, I wish to notify the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB)
that Japan abolished on 31 December 1999 the varietal testing requirement as well as its
"Experimental Guide"1 that were in force until that date, in accordance with the rulings and
recommendations adopted by the DSB on 19 March 1999 regarding the dispute "Japan - Measures
Affecting Agricultural Products" (DS76).
I also wish to inform the DSB that Japan will determine a new quarantine methodology on the
eight products that are currently subject to import prohibition as these products are hosts of codling
moth, based on the consultation with an exporting country, since it is still necessary to prevent the
introduction of codling moth.
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1 Reference made in para. 143.(e), Report of the Appellate Body.