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WORLD TRADE G/ADP/Q1/SEN/5
G/SCM/Q1/SEN/5
ORGANIZATION 31January 1997
(97-0361)
Original: French Committee onAnti-Dumping Practices
Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
NOTIFICATION OFLAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER
ARTICLES 18.5AND 32.6OFTHE AGREEMENTS
Replies from SENEGAL1
toQuestions Posed bytheUNITED STATES2,JAPAN3
theEUROPEAN COMMUNITY4andHONG KONG5
Thefollowing communication, dated 20January 1997, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Mission ofSenegal.
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Question 1
What istherelationship oftheWTO Agreements toSenegalese law? What istheauthority
oftheWTO Agreements inrelation toSenegalese law?
Reply
Inaccordance withArticle 79oftheConstitution ofSenegal, theUruguay Round Agreements
prevail overdomestic trade legislation. Theprovisions ofourlegislation therefore have tobein
conformity withtheWTO Agreements. Itfollows thatanyWTO Member country mayinvoke the
provisions oftheWTO Agreements todefend itstrade rights.
Question 2
Does Senegal intend totranspose intonational lawthetexts oftheAgreements onAnti-
Dumping andSubsidies ordoesitonlyintend torefer tothem when carrying outinvestigations?
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Reply
Senegal undertakes toimprove itspresent regulations onsubsidies andcountervailing measures.
Tothatend,asprovided forinArticle XVI:4 oftheMarrakesh Agreement Establishing theWorld
Trade Organization, theongoing restructuring ofourtrade defence mechanism willessentially aim
atensuring thefullandcomplete conformity ofourlaws, regulations andadministrative procedures
withourobligations asprovided intheWTO Agreements dealing withthese matters.
Question 3
Article 3ofSenegal 'sLawstates that"theamount ofthecountervailing duties oranti-
dumping duties shall beincorporated inthecustoms value". Thiswould appear tobeawayof
imposing asurtax. Isthisthecase?
Reply
Asspecified intheprovisions ofArticle 3oftheabove-mentioned Law, theanti-dumping duty
mayinnocaseexceed theamount oftheanti-dumping margin. Theincorporation oftheanti-dumping
dutyinthecustoms value should therefore beunderstood interms ofhowthedutyistobecollected,
asisclearly specified inArticle 1ofthesame law.
Question 4
Article 8oftheSenegalese Lawseems toallow theSenegalese authorities toadopt safeguard
measures following anti-dumping investigation, while Article 18.1oftheAnti-Dumping Agreement
stipulates thatnospecific action against dumping ofexports from another member canbetaken
except inaccordance withtheprovisions ofGATT 1994. Does theSenegalese Government adopt
safeguardmeasureswithinananti-dumpinginvestigation?Ifso,pleaseexplainhowSenegalensures
theconsistency ofSenegalese Law with theabove-mentioned provisions oftheAnti-Dumping
Agreement?
Reply
TheSenegalese delegation recognizes thatthepresent drafting ofArticle 8ofLaw94-68 is
somewhat inadequate. Thereference to"previous Article" inArticle 8maygivetheimpression that
safeguard measures mayindeed beusedwhen aninvestigation isopened. Infact,thepurpose was
toprovide forthepossibility indomestic lawtoinvoke safeguard measures inconformity with
Article XIXofGATT 1994. Even inthiscase, itshould berecalled thatimplementation would only
beinconformity withtheUruguay Round Agreement onSafeguards.
Question 5
Wenotethatyourlawwasenacted in1994. Areyouintheprocess ofrevising ittoreflect
theprovisions oftheUruguay Round Anti-Dumping andSubsidies andCountervailing Measures
Agreements?
Reply
Revision isunder way, andthelegaltextstobeadopted willbenotified totheWTO.