RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/ADP/W/7
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ORGANIZATION 10July1995
(95-1909)
Original: English Committee onAntidumping Practices
Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE NOTIFICATIONS
PROVIDED BYTHE GOVERNMENT OFVENEZUELA OFLAWS
AND REGULATIONS UNDER ARTICLES 18.5AND 32.6OFTHE AGREEMENTS
Thefollowingcommunication,dated4July1995,hasbeenreceivedfromthePermanentMission
ofAustralia.
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Please findenclosed thewritten questions submitted byAustralia inview ofthelegislation
review tobecarried outinthenextmeeting oftheAnti-Dumping andSubsidies andCountervailing
Measures Committees.
1. What isthepurpose andjustification ofparagraph 2ofArticle 8oftheRegulations?
2. How doesVenezuela reconcile thefigure of20percentinparagraph 3ofArticle 8ofthe
Regulations withthe5percentfigure infootnote 2toArticle 2.2oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement?
3. HowwillVenezuela make provision forsubsidies thatarenon-actionable because theycomply
withArticle 8.2oftheSubsidies Agreement orAnnex 2oftheAgriculture Agreement?
4. Article 50oftheRegulations would appear toallow theCommission tocome toaconclusion
thatthere ismaterial injury without theconditions ofparagraph 3being met. Ifthisisthecase, how
willVenezuela ensure thatitsobligations todemonstrate injury tothedomestic industry under the
Anti-Dumping andSubsidies Agreements areobserved?
5. Does thereference inArticle 58oftheRegulations regarding "areduction inexports ofsuch
goods" envisage aquantitative restriction rather thanapriceundertaking? Howisthisconsistent with
Article 8.1oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement?
6. What provision willbemade under Article 7oftheLaw, orelsewhere, willbemade forthe
conversion ofcurrencies when making afaircomparison between theexport price andnormal value,
assetoutinArticle 2.4.1 oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement?
7. What circumstances areenvisaged under paragraph 2ofArticle 8oftheLawby"materially
affects thefindings"?
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8. Howcanthesingle paragraph under Article 12oftheLawbereconciled withArticle 3.3of
theAnti-DumpingAgreementandArticle15.3oftheSubsidiesAgreement,whichonlyallowcumulation
where thecountries concerned aresimultaneously subject toinvestigation andwhere theconditions
regarding deminimis andnegligible volume setoutinthose Articles aremet?
9. Howwillitbeensured thatself-initiation bytheCommission under Article 38oftheLawmeets
thestandards required under Article 5.6oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement andArticle 11.6ofthe
Subsidies Agreement?
10. Howwillitbeensured thattheCommission willterminate investigations inaccordance with
theprovisions ondeminimis margins/subsidies andnegligible volumes ofdumped/subsidized goods?
11. Could Venezuela please explain theprocedures forimposing provisional measures. Willthere
beaformal investigation andreport (Article 53oftheLawappears toonlyapply tofinaldeterminations)?
Howwilltheobligations under theAnti-Dumping andSubsidies Agreements beobserved, including
aminimum period of60daysfrom initiation toallow foranadequate investigation? What process
ofinvestigation willbefollowed under thesingle paragraph under Article 60oftheLaw?
12. Theprovisions ofDecision 283aresomewhat different fromthose intheLawandRegulations.
What istherelationship ofDecision 283totheLawandRegulations? Could Venezuela please explain
whatwould happen under Decision 283? Article 2ofDecision 283appears toprovide foreither third
countryanti-dumping/countervailingactionorforjointanti-dumping/countervailingaction.Iftheformer
willtheprocedures ofArticle VIofGATT 1994befollowed andifthelatter, whatjustification would
there beunder theAnti-Dumping andSubsidies Agreements?