RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/ADP/W/394
G/SCM/W/404
7May1996
ORGANIZATION(96-1787)
Original: English/Spanish Committee onAnti-Dumping Practices
Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
REPLIES TOQUESTIONS POSED BYTHE UNITED STATES1TOPERU
CONCERNING THE LATTER 'SNOTIFICATION2OFLAWS AND
REGULATIONS UNDER ARTICLES 18.5AND 32.6
OFTHE AGREEMENTS
Thefollowing communication, dated 12April 1996, hasbeenreceived from thePermanent
Mission ofPeru.
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1. Doyouhaveanyanti-dumping orcountervailing dutylawswhich wereinforce prior toentry
intoforce oftheUruguay Round which havenotbeenrevoked?
ByLegislative Resolution No.26407 oftheDemocratic Constituent Congress oftheRepublic
ofPeru, published intheOfficial Journal "ElPeruano" on18December 1994 andinforce since
1January 1995, Peruadopted theAgreement establishing theWTO andtheMultilateral Agreements
contained intheFinal Actembodying theresults oftheUruguay Round.
ThePeruvian domestic legislation inforce prior totheentry intoforce ofLegislative
Resolution No.26407 wascontained inthefollowing legalinstruments which weredulynotified to
theSecretariat oftheGeneral Agreement onTariffs andTrade (GATT):
- Legislative Decree No.668;
- Supreme Decree No.133-91-EF;
- Supreme Decree No.277-91-EF;
- Supreme Decree No.51-92-EF;
- Decree LawNo.25868 (INDECOPI);
- Supreme Decree No.25-93-ITINCI;
- Supreme Decree No.009-93-ITINCI.
1G/ADP/W/245-G/SCM/W/255.
2G/ADP/N/1/PER/1 andG/SCM/N/1/PER/1.
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Also inforce isSupreme Decree No. 001-94-ITINCI (replaces Supreme Decree
No.009-93-ITINCI)approvingtheupdatingoftheINDECOPISingleTextonAdministrativeProcedures
(TUPA), which isbeing notified totheWTO.
Upon theentry intoforce ofLegislative Resolution No.26407, noneoftheabove-mentioned
legalinstruments wasrevoked and,accordingly, theirprovisions continue inforce, insofarasthey
donotconflict withtheWTO Agreements onDumping andSubsidies.
Consequently,thedomesticlegislationpriortoLegislativeResolutionNo.26407isbeingapplied
onasupplementary basistosettle cases ofdumping andsubsidies, totheextent thatitdoesnotconflict
withtheprovisions oftheWTO Agreements.
AdraftSupreme Decree isnowbeing prepared inorder toensure thattheAgreements on
Dumping andSubsidies approved bytheDemocratic Constituent Congress oftheRepublic ofPeru
arestrictly observed inadministrative procedures.
2. What isthestatus oftheAndean anti-dumping laws?
Thesupranational Andean regulations ondumping andsubsidies arecontained inChapter VIII
oftheInternational Treaty establishing theCartagena Agreement andinDecision 283approved by
theCommission oftheCartagena Agreement.
These regulations arecurrently inforce andaremandatory intherelations between Peruand
theother members oftheCartagena Agreement.
TheBoard oftheCartagena Agreement isthebody responsible forapplying theAndean
regulations ondumping andsubsidies.
Thislegislation isapplied totheextent thatitdoesnotconflict withtheprovisions oftheWTO
Agreements onDumping andSubsidies.