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ORGANIZATIONG/ADP/Q1/ARM/1
G/SCM/Q1/ARM/1
1 September 2003
(03-4554)
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 EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Regarding the Notification of ARMENIA1
The following communication, dated 27 August 2003, has been received from the Permanent
Delegation of the European Commission.
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1. Could Armenia confirm that Article 8(1)(b) of  the Anti-Dumping Law allows the use of a
comparable price of the like product when exported to a third country only provided that this price isrepresentative, in accordance with Article 2.2 of the Anti-Dumping Agreement (ADA)?
2. Does it follow from Article 30 of the Anti-Dumping Law that dumped imports from one
country can be cumulated with subsidised imports from another country in the same investigation?
3. Please clarify under which circumstances Armeni a would find it appropriate to select an
investigation period shorter than three years for the injury investigation (Article 40 of the Anti-Dumping Law).
4. Article 41(3) of the Anti-Dumping Law provid es that the Authorized Body shall consider
information submitted by interested parties unless such consideration would be unduly burdensome to
the Authorized Body of disrupt the timely progress  of the investigation.  Please clarify under what
circumstances Armenia would consider the consider ation of information to be “unduly burdensome”.
5. Pursuant to Article 41(10) of the Anti-Dumpin g Law copies of documents requested from the
interested parties have to be certified by a notary in the country of export.  Would Armenia consider
that such condition is necessary and proportionate for the purpose of conducting anti-dumpinginvestigations in accordance with the ADA?
6. Could Armenia please clarify whether it applies the so-called “lesser-duty rule”?  If this is not
the case, please explain how the maximum durat ion of provisional measures laid down in
Article 51(7) of the Anti-Dumping Law is consistent with Article 7.4 of the ADA.
                                                     
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7. Article 72, paragraph 6 provides that the Authorized Body shall disregard information if
confidential treatment is not warranted and the supplier of the information is unwilling to make it
public.  Would the Authorized Body nevertheless use such information if it can be demonstrated from
appropriate sources that the information is  correct, in accordance with Article 6.5.2 ADA?
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