WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/N/74/SLV/2
7 January 2002
(02-0055)
Committee on Subsidies
and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  Spanish
SUBSIDIES
Requests Pursuant to Article 27.4 of the Agreement on
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
EL SALVADOR
The following communication, dated 20 December 2001, has been received from the
Permanent Mission of El Salvador.
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I wish to inform you that the Government of the Republic of El Salvador has decided to ask
the WTO Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures for an extension of the transitionperiod provided for in Article 27.4 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures for
the programme established under its Export Reactivation Law, approved by Legislative Decree
No. 460 of 15 March 1990, published in Official Gazette No. 88, Volume No. 307, of 18 April 1990,
as amended by Legislative Decree No. 749 of 19 April 1991, published in Official Gazette No. 95,
Volume No. 311, of 27 May 1991, Legislative Decree No. 181 of 18 December 1997, published in
Official Gazette No. 239, Volume No. 337 of 22 December 1997 and Legislative Decree No. 534 of
13 January 1999, published in Official Gazette No. 21, Volume No. 342 of 1 February 1999; andunder the General Regulations of the Export Reactivation Law, approved by Legislative Decree
No. 68 of 27 November 1990, published in Official Gazette No. 269, Volume No. 309 of
27 November 1990, as amended by Executive Decree No. 43 of 29 April 1993, published in Official
Gazette No. 19, Volume No. 319 of 26 May 1993.
This request is in response to the need to promote employment, economic development and
export diversification to ensure sustainable democracy in our country.
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