Negotiating Group on Rules - Countervailing Measures: Illustrative Major Issues - Paper by Brazil

World Trade Organization TN/RL/W/19 7 October 2002 (02-5374) Negotiating Group on Rules Original: English COUNTERVAILING MEASURES: ILLUSTRATIVE MAJOR ISSUES Paper by Brazil The following communication, dated 3 October 2002, has been received from the Permanent Mission of Brazil. _______________ This paper has the objective of identifying some illustrative major issues related to the countervailing measure provisions contained in the Subsidies Agreement that would need to be clarified and improved, as mandated in the Doha Ministerial Declaration. The mandate provides for an adequate opportunity to fill several lacunae contained in Part V of the ASCM. Brazil has already presented most of these ideas in the course of the discussions of “tiret 80” of the implementation issues, at the Committee on Subsidies. Extensive debate was undertaken at the Committee from September/2001 to July/2002. Unfortunately, it was not possible for Members to re