WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/DS136/18
4 March 2002
(02-1097)
Original:  English
UNITED STATES – ANTI-DUMPING ACT OF 1916
Recourse by the United States to Article 22.6 of the DSU
Communication from the Arbitrator
The following communication, dated 27 February 2002, has been received from the
Permanent Delegation of the European Commission and the Permanent Mission of the United States
and addressed to Mr. Dimitrij Gr čar, Chairman of the arbitrators.
"The European Communities (EC) and the United States of America (US) wish to
thank you and the other arbitrators for accepting to serve as the Arbitrator in the
above-captioned proceeding.
The EC and the US would like to inform you that a proposal to repeal the 1916 Act
and to terminate cases pending under the Act is currently being examined by theUS Congress.  In the light of this circumstance, the EC and the US respectfully
request the Arbitrator to suspend the arbitration proceeding.  The US and the EC
agree that the arbitration proceeding may be reactivated at the request of either party
after 30 June 2002 if no substantial progress has been made in resolving this dispute
by that date."
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In accordance with the joint request by the parties, the Arbitrator has suspended the
arbitration proceeding.  The Arbitrator has taken note of the parties' agreement that the arbitration
proceeding may be reactivated at the request of either party after 30 June 2002 if no substantialprogress has been made in resolving the dispute by that date.
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