RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/Q3/DOM/3
9 April 2002
(02-1878)
Committee on Subsidies
and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  English
SUBSIDIES
Requests Pursuant to Article 27.4 of the Agreement
on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
Questions Posed by JAPAN
Regarding the Notification of the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC1
The following communication, dated 4 April 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of Japan.
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Japan hereby submits the following questions seeking clarification of certain aspects of the
request submitted by the Dominican Republic under Article 27.4 of the ASCM for extension of the
transition period for export subsidies.  In addition, Japan reserves its right for further questions.  These
questions are without prejudice to whether Japan endorses any conclusions which may be drawn.
Free Trade Zones
1. This Programme seems to include a requirement for local value added.  Could the Dominican
Republic please explain its conformity with Article 3.1(b) of the ASCM?
While Law 8-90 on Free Trade Zones of January 1990, which the Dominican Republic
referred to in G/SCM/N/71/DOM, seems to have  already been effective in 1996, the Dominican
Republic notified in G/SCM/N/3/DOM on 8 March 1996 that there were no measures which require
notification under Article 25.  Could the Dominican Republic please explain this contradiction?
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1 G/SCM/N/74/DOM and G/SCM/N/71/DOM