RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/ADP/AHG/W/110
19 March 2001
(01-1318)
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices
Ad Hoc Group on ImplementationOriginal:  English
POSSIBLY RELEVANT CRITERIA REGARDING CONDITIONS OF
COMPETITION FOR CONSIDERATION IN DECIDING WHETHER
A CUMULATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF IMPORTS IS
APPROPRIATE IN LIGHT OF THOSE CONDITIONS
Paper from Australia
The following communication, dated 16 March 2001, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of Australia.
_______________
Australia’s response to G/ADP/AHG/W/93.
Australia has
(a) no objection to criteria 1 to 4,
(b) would question the relevance of criteria 5 and
(c) would propose the deletion of criteria 6 and 7.
Criteria 5 deal with matters that go to the establishment of material injury and causal link.
These tests are not relevant when considering cumulation.  Australia does not agree that the fact that
price trends differ does not mean that goods do not compete with each other.
Australia is concerned that the reference to “same time period” in criteria 6 could be
interpreted, as meaning those goods had to compete against each other at the same time.  Australia
considers that it is only necessary that goods compete with each other over the investigation period.
Accordingly Australia believes that this criteria should be deleted.
Australia does not agree with the statement in criteria 7 that domestic products and imports
have to be sold in overlapping geographical regions of the domestic market.  Competition should be
measured by having regard to the whole of the domestic market.  Criteria 7 should be deleted.
__________