WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/ADP/Q1/EEC/21
G/SCM/Q1/EEC/21
10 April 2003
(03-1983)
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  English
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER
ARTICLES 18.5 AND 32.6 OF THE AGREEMENTS
Questions Posed by the UNITED STATES
Regarding the Notification of the EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES1
The following communication, dated 9 April 2003, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the United States.
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1. In Article 1.2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1972/2002 (“the Regulation”), the EC provides
three situations which it views as constituting a particular market situation.  Among the optionsspecified is “when prices are artificially low”.  Under what circumstances would the EC disregard low
prices pursuant to Article 1.2 which would not have been disregarded under Article 2.2.1 of the AD
Agreement (i.e. as outside the ordinary course of trade because they were below the cost of
production)?
2. What type of “non-commercial processing arra ngements” does the EC believe would give rise
to a “particular market situation” pursuant to Article 1.2 of the Regulation?
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1 G/ADP/N/1/EEC/2/Suppl.3