WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/Q3/COL/25
30 October 2003
(03-5780)
Committee on Subsidies and
Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  Spanish
SUBSIDIES
Requests Pursuant to Article 27.4 of the Agreement on
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
Questions Posed by Ecuador
The following communication, dated 24 October 2003, has been received from the Delegation
of Ecuador.
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On instructions from my Government, I hereby request further information on the continued
extension of the transition period for Columbia's Special Import-Export System for Capital Goods and
Spare Parts (SIEX) and Free-Zone (ZF) subsidy programmes, as follows:
(a) Colombia is requested to specifically regulate, by means of a further Ministry of
Trade Resolution, the application of deferred payment of VAT and thereby establish
that the five-year time-limit for such deferral, of which Colombian importers may
avail themselves, coincides with the final deadline for the SIEX authorized by theWTO, that is to say, December 2006 at the very latest.
(b) Colombia is requested to notify the contents of Ministry of Trade Resolution
No. 1148 of 2002, which is not included in the WTO compilation (document
G/SCM/Q3/COL/17), to the WTO Secretariat for the purposes of examination.
(c) Colombia is requested to provide evidence of why the reform of the Free-Zone
Regime requires a law rather than merely an executive decree, as initially established.
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