WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/Q2/USA/22
10 September 2002
(02-4730)
Committee on Subsidies
and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  English
SUBSIDIES
Questions from JAPAN Regarding the
New and Full Notification of the UNITED STATES1
The following communication, dated 9 September 2002, has been received from the
Permanent Mission of Japan.
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Japan hereby submits the following questions seeking clarification of certain aspects of the
New and Full Subsidies Notification of the United States.  Japan reserves its right for further
questions.  These questions are without prejudice to whether Japan endorses any conclusions which
may be drawn.
I.  Aerospace & Aeronautics
- Advanced Subsonic Technology Programme (p.2) and
- High Speed Research Programme (p.5)
1. Could the United States explain what is meant by “other cooperative-type agreements”?
2.  Please explain how many companies have been aided under these Programmes?
II.  Metals, Minerals, and Extraction (Non-Fuel)
- Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Programme  (P.70)
1.  Could the United States explain how many companies exactly have received guarantee under
this Programme since 1999?
2.  You stated that eight applications, totalling $592,643,620 in loans.  Does this amount mean
the total amount of guarantee of loans from 1999 through to 2001?  Could the United States pleaseexplain which steel companies receive this loan?  Please explain what the amount received by each
company is?
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