RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/ADP/Q1/JPN/5
G/SCM/Q1/JPN/5
ORGANIZATION 12August 1996
(96-3179)
Original: English Committee onAnti-Dumping Practices
Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
NOTIFICATION OFLAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER
ARTICLES 18.5AND 32.6OFTHE AGREEMENTS
Replies ofJAPAN1
toquestions posed byINDIA2
Thefollowingcommunication,dated29July1996,hasbeenreceivedfromthePermanentMission
ofJapan.
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NecessarynotificationsoflawsandregulationsandtheGuidelineareinthecourseofpreparation,
andwillbesubmitted bythenextmeeting oflegislation review.
1. Article 6.1oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement while defining "interested parties" includes
government oftheexporting Member. Similarly, Article 12oftheSCM Agreement requires
investigating authorities tonotify interested Members oftheinformation required for
investigation. Wehavenotbeenabletolocate corresponding provisions intheJapanese laws
andregulations, although, "interested parties fordomestic industry" havebeendefined in
Article 5oftheAnti-Dumping Cabinet Order andArticle 5oftheCountervailing DutyCabinet
Order requires notification to"directly interested persons" which doesnotinclude theinterested
Members.Itmaybeclarifiedwhetherprovisionsexistfornotifyingtotheconcernedgovernments
before initiation ofanti-dumping investigations orcountervailing dutyinvestigations.
Theprovisions ofArticle 12.1oftheADAgreement andArticle 22.1oftheSCM Agreement
aredirectly applied, sothatthegovernments concerned areproperly notified before theinvestigations
areinitiated.
2. Article 13.1oftheSCMAgreement makes itmandatory thatMembers, theproducers ofwhich
maybesubject toinvestigations initiated asperArticle 11shallbenotified forconsultations.
TheJapanese lawandregulations donotappear toreflect thisprovision. Thismaybeclarified.
Theprovisions ofArticle 13.1oftheSCM Agreement aredirectly applied.
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3. Article 4oftheAnti-Dumping Cabinet Order defines theterm"industry inJapan" asreferring
totheproducers inJapan whose collective output ofthelikeproducts constitutes more than
asubstantial proportion ofthetotaldomestic production ofthelikeproducts. Article 4ofthe
Anti-Dumping Agreement defines domestic industry asreferring tothedomestic producers as
awhole ofthelikeproducts ortothoseofthemwhose collective output oftheproducts constitutes
amajor proportion ofthetotaldomestic production ofthose products. Itmaybeclarified
whether thewords "substantial proportion" mean atleastamajor proportion i.e.more than
50percentofthetotaldomestic production.
Thedifference wascaused byatranslation error("major proportion" isthecorrect translation).
The"major proportion" isinterpreted as50percentinthe"Guidelines".