RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/Q2/MEX/16
8 June 2001
(01-2818)
Committee on Subsidies
and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  English
SUBSIDIES
Questions from the UNITED STATES
Regarding the Updating Notification of MEXICO1
The following communication, dated 17 May 2001, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the United States.
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1. The US Department of Commerce identified several subsidy programmes in its latest CVD
administrative review of imports of cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Mexico.  Please indicate why
the following programmes were not notified, e.g., have some of the programmes been terminated?  If
programmes have been terminated, please indicate the legislative action under which the termination
was made.  Otherwise, please notify the following programmes or explain why you believe they do
not fall within the scope of notifiable measures:
− Grants from the Mexican Institute for Steel Research (IMIS)
− Bancomext Export Loans
− Bancomext Short-Term Import Financing
− FONEI Long-Term Financing
− Export Financing Restructuring
− Bancomext Trade Promotion Services and Technical Support
− Empresas de Comercio Exterior or Foreign Trade Companies Programme
− Article 15 & 94 Loans
− Nafinsa Long-Term Loans
2. You stated in your reply2 to a question, concerning your previous notification3 about the
sectoral promotion programmes published by SECOFI, on November 14, 1998, that “The
programmes published in the Official Journal of 14 November 1998 are not in operation.  Inaccordance with the transitional article of the decree in question, those programmes will come into
effect by 1 November 2000.”
(a) Are these programmes now in effect?  If so, when did they come into effect?
(b) Please provide further details about the programmes.
(c) What sectors/industries are covered by these sectoral programmes?
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1 G/SCM/N/48/MEX; G/SCM/N/60/MEX.
2 G/SCM/Q2/MEX/15.
3 G/SCM/Q2/MEX/13.