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ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/N/74/GRD/Suppl.1
26 March 2002
(02-1538)
Committee on Subsidies
and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  English
SUBSIDIES
Requests Pursuant to Article 27.4 of the
Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
Requests Pursuant to the Procedure in Document G/SCM/39
GRENADA
Supplement
The following communication has been received from the Permanent Mission of Grenada on
21 March 2002.
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Having been informed by our Ambassador Designate of the Brussels Mission of the deadline
to transmit the above-mentioned request, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade,
taking into consideration our capacity constraints, employed its best endeavours to complete the
request, and forwarded same to our Mission on 28 December 2001, for transmission to the relevantauthority.
The Ministry was subsequently informed on 7 January 2002 that the SCM Committee did not
receive our request.  Immediately, the Ministry retransmitted a copy of the request via fax to the
Secretary of the SCM Committee.
The Ministry feels obliged to inform the Chairman of the SCM Committee that the situation
for Grenada is quite exceptional, in that, Grenada not having a representative in Geneva, presents
extraordinary challenges to Grenada's partic ipation in the multilateral WTO processes, inter alia , the
difficult situation with regard to the transmitting of necessary information to and from the WTO.
The department in Grenada dealing with our International, Hemispheric, Regional and Sub-
regional Affairs is rather small, having at present two persons to address all issues pertinent to the
WTO, EU-ACP negotiations, FTAA negotiations , CARICOM and OECS Integration process.
Nevertheless we have sought in our best endeavours to keep such critical deadlines, as evident in oursubmission of the new and full notification on the subject within the given time.  The Government of
Grenada is very grateful for the excellent technical assistance provided by the WTO in this regard.
The Fiscal Incentive Programmes of Grenada are very important to our economic
development, particularly in light of the present economic downturn.G/SCM/N/74/ GRD/Suppl.1
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The Government of Grenada, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade,
hopes that the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures would adopt a sympathetic
approach to our circumstances given all that was mentioned above and treat Grenada's request as
timely.
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