Negotiating Group on Rules - Summary Report of the Meeting Held on 5 - 7 May 2003 - Note by the Secretariat

World Trade Organization RESTRICTED TN/RL/M/8 10 June 2003 (03-2965) Negotiating Group on Rules SUMMARY REPORT OF THE MEETING HELD ON 5-7 MAY 2003 Note by the Secretariat The Negotiating Group on Rules ("the Group") held a formal meeting on 5-7 May 2003. A. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA The Group adopted the following agenda: A. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA 1 B. REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS 1 C. ANTI-DUMPING 1 D. subsidies and countervailing measures, including fisheries subsidies 7 E. other business 12 - Date of the next formal meeting of the Group REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS No participant raised any issues under this agenda item. ANTI-DUMPING The first paper, entitled "Proposal on Reviews" (TN/RL/W/83), was sponsored by 13 participants. The sponsors explained that the proposal sought a solution to the problem of the arbitrary introduction of rules, procedures and methodologies in reviews that differ from those in original investigations due to lacunae in the