WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SG/40/Suppl.2
G/L/509
25 February 2002
(02-0935)
Committee on Safeguards Original:  English
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.5 OF THE
AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS ON
THE RESULTS OF CONSULTATIONS
UNITED STATES
The following communication, dated 21 February 2002, has been received from the
Permanent Mission of the United States.
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Documents G/SG/N/8/USA/8 (1 November 2001), G/SG/N/9/USA/4 (1 November 2001),
G/SG/N/8/USA /8/Suppl.1 (7 January 2002) contain communications from the United States
concerning action under the Agreement on Safeguards in respect of certain steel products.
The United States notifies the Council for Trade in Goods that it has held consultations
pursuant to Article 12.3 with the European Communities (“EC”).  The United States is of the view
that these consultations provided an adequate oppo rtunity to review the information provided under
Article 12.2 of the Safeguards Agreement, exchan ge views on the proposed measures, and reach an
understanding on ways to achieve the objective set out in Article 8.1 of the Safeguards Agreement.
The EC took the view that further consultations would be necessary to fully satisfy the obligations
under Article 12.3 of the Safeguards Agreement.
During the consultations, the United States responded to questions posed by the EC on the
following issues related to the findings of th e U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) and
safeguard measures proposed by the United States:  (1) the timeframe for the identification and thedefinition of like products by the ITC; (2) the period of investigation; (3) the U.S. “substantial cause”
standard; (4) the establishment of a causal link be tween increased imports and serious injury; (5) the
methodology for selecting a safeguard measure; (6) the relationship of any safeguard measure to
preexisting and future antidumping and countervailing duty measures; (7) public summaries of
confidential information; and (8) whether the United States would consider the possibility ofcompensation under Article 8.1 of the Safeguards Agreement.  The United States sought the EC’s
views on whether the use of computer models is a ppropriate in evaluating potential compensation or
suspension of concessions.
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