NOTE FROM THE SECRETARIAT

In order to assist Members, the following are deadlines for submission of various documentation following up on the October 2025 regular meetings, and in conjunction with the April 2026 regular meetings of the Committees on Anti-Dumping Practices, Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and Safeguards, which will be held in the week of 27 April 2026. In addition, a recap of the approach for convening the meetings of the Informal Group on Anti‑Circumvention is also reflected.

Members are reminded to always submit written questions and answers directly to the Member concerned at the same time that they submit them to the Secretariat for circulation.

1.  _      AD/CVD/SG LEGISLATION NOTIFICATIONS

The Secretariat will circulate to Members by 20 March 2026 the annotated draft agenda in which a list of the new notifications of legislation, that will be on the agenda for review at the regular meetings in April 2026, will be reflected. Pursuant to procedures adopted by the Committees[1]^,[2], notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 16 March 2026 will be reviewed at the relevant Committee's April 2026 regular meeting.

1.1  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers following up on the October 2025 regular meetings:

21 November 2025          Written follow-up to questions posed orally at the October 2025 regular meetings regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at those meetings.

12 December 2025          Written answers to all written questions (those posed in writing prior to the regular meetings by the deadline of 6 October 2025 and those posed orally at the meetings and followed up in writing after the regular meetings by the above deadline of 21 November 2025) regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings in October 2025.

1.2  Deadlines for submission of questions and answers in conjunction with the April 2026 regular meetings:

16 March 2026                 Written questions regarding previously reviewed notifications of legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in April 2026.

7 April 2026                      Written questions regarding new notifications of legislation to be reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings in April 2026. Such questions would be answered orally at the April 2026 regular meetings and subsequently followed by written answers to be submitted by the deadline indicated by the Chairs at those meetings and reflected in the next "Note from the Secretariat" to be issued after the meetings.

13 April 2026                   Written answers to written questions submitted by 16 March 2026 regarding previously reviewed notifications of legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in April 2026.

2.  _      Subsidy Notifications

2.1  New and Full Subsidy Notifications

2025 new and full notifications were due on 30 June 2025. Pursuant to the procedures adopted by the Committee at its April 2005 regular meeting and circulated in document _G/SCM/117^[3], only notifications circulated in all three WTO working languages not later than 23 December 2025 may be reviewed at the special meeting that will be held in April 2026. The Secretariat will circulate to Members, shortly after, a list of 2025 new and full subsidy notifications, and any other new and full notifications not previously reviewed, that will be on the agenda for review at that meeting.

27 January 2026              (a) Written questions regarding 2025 subsidy notifications, and other subsidy notifications not previously-reviewed, scheduled for review at the Committee's April 2026 special meeting.

                                           (b) Written follow-up or other questions concerning subsidy notifications previously reviewed, including those reviewed at the Committee's October 2025 special meeting or at any earlier meetings.

31 March 2026                 (a) Written answers to written questions regarding 2025 new and full subsidy notifications, and other new and full notifications not previously‑reviewed, scheduled for review at the Committee's April 2026 special meeting.

                                           (b) Written answers to any follow-up or other questions concerning previously reviewed subsidy notifications (including those discussed at the Committee's October 2025 special meeting or any earlier meetings).

2.2  Transparency Notifications Relating to Article 27.4 Export Subsidy Phase-Out Period

The Members with Article 27.4 extensions are required, pursuant to paragraph 2(c) of the procedures in _WT/L/691, to provide transparency notifications in respect of 2015, the last of the two final years for phasing out the export subsidies. These notifications were due on 30 June 2016.

3.  _      Informal Group on anti-circumvention

3.1  The following is a recap of the approach followed for convening the meetings of the Group:

First, if a paper is submitted 6 weeks before the actual meeting, the Informal Group will be convened.

Second, if no paper is received by that relevant deadline, the annotated draft agenda will so note and indicate that a meeting of the Group will be held only if a delegation so requests by the date for comments stated in the annotated draft agenda.

Third, if any delegation requests a meeting by the date specified for comments in the annotated draft agenda, a meeting will be convened.  If no delegation makes such a request, no meeting will be convened.

Accordingly, the following are the deadlines for the spring 2026 meeting:

16 March 2026                 Papers to be submitted by 16 March 2026 to convene an April 2026 meeting of the Informal Group to consider the paper.

15 April 2026                   Requests to be submitted by 15 April 2026 to convene an April 2026 meeting of the Informal Group and to place an item on the agenda.

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