RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/ADP/Q1/PER/9
G/SCM/Q1/PER/9
7 May 1998
(98-1818)
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  English
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER
ARTICLES 18.5 AND 32.6 OF THE AGREEMENTS
Questions from BRAZIL
to PERU1
The following communication, dated 4 May 1998, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of Brazil.
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Article 14 of the SCM Agreement establishes that "any method used by the investigating
authority to calculate the benefit to the recipient conferred pursuant to paragraph 1 of Article 1 shall
be provided for in the national legislation or implementing regulations of the Member concerned ...".
Decree No. 043-97-EF "Regulations on Dump ing and Subsidies" does not contain any
provision relating to the method the Peruvian inve stigating authorities would apply to calculate the
benefit to the recipient conferred pursuant to para graph 1 of Article 1 of the SCM Agreement.  Could
Peru explain how it complies with the provisions of Article 14 of the SCM Agreement?  Could Peru
indicate if the mentioned method of calculation is contained in any other national implementingregulation?
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1 G/ADP/N/1/PER/1/Suppl.2 and G/SCM/N/1/PER/1/Suppl.2.