RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/ADP/Q1/KOR/4
G/SCM/Q1/KOR/4
ORGANIZATION 14April 1997
(97-1571)
Original: English Committee onAnti-Dumping Practices
Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
NOTIFICATION OFLAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER
ARTICLES 18.5AND 32.6OFTHE AGREEMENTS
Questions from theUNITED STATES
toKOREA1
Thefollowingcommunication,dated9April1997,hasbeenreceivedfromthePermanentMission
oftheUnited States.
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Article 10(6) oftheCustoms Actprovides thatanantidumping dutyorder shallloseitseffect
fiveyears afterthedateofenforcement “except [for]cases where theimposition period isprovided
independently bytheOrdinance ofthePrime Minister. ”Howisthisconsistent withArticle 11.3of
the1994Agreement onImplementation ofArticle VIoftheGATT (“ADAgreement ”),which provides
thatanantidumping order “shallbeterminated ”within fiveyears ofimposition unless “theauthorities
determine, inareview initiated before thatdateontheirowninitiative orupon adulysubstantiated
request made byoronbehalf ofthedomestic industry within areasonable period oftimeprior tothat
date,thatexpiry ofthedutywould belikely toleadtocontinuation orrecurrence ofdumping orinjury ”?
1G/ADP/N/1/KOR/2.