NOTE
FROM THE SECRETARIAT
In order to assist Members, the following are deadlines for submission
of various documentation following up on the April 2025 regular meetings, and in conjunction with the October 2025 regular meetings of the Committees on Anti-Dumping Practices,
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and Safeguards, which will be held
in the week of 27 October 2025.
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 19 September 2025 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 October 2025,
will be reflected. Pursuant to procedures adopted by the
Committees[1],[2], notifications circulated in all
three WTO working languages not later than 15 September
2025 will be reviewed at the relevant Committee's October 2025 regular meeting.
1.1 Deadlines for submission of questions and answers following up on
the April 2025 regular meetings:
23 May 2025 Written
follow-up to questions posed orally at the April 2025
regular meetings regarding notifications of legislation reviewed at those meetings.
13 June 2025 Written answers to all written
questions (those posed in writing prior to the regular meetings by the deadline
of 7 April 2025 and those posed orally at the
meetings and followed-up in writing after the regular meetings by the above deadline
of 23 May 2025) regarding notifications of
legislation reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings in April 2025.
1.2 Deadlines for submission of questions and answers in conjunction
with the October 2025 regular meetings:
15 September 2025 Written questions regarding
previously-reviewed notifications of legislation, for consideration at the
Committees' regular meetings in October 2025.
6 October 2025 Written questions regarding new
notifications of legislation to be reviewed at the Committees' regular meetings
in October 2025. Such questions would be answered
orally at the October 2025 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 October 2025 Written answers to written
questions submitted by 15 September 2025 regarding previously-reviewed notifications of
legislation, for consideration at the Committees' regular meetings in October 2025.
2.1 New and Full Subsidy Notifications
2025 new and
full notifications are 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 1 July 2025 may
be reviewed at the special meeting that will be held in October 2025. 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.
29 July 2025 (a) Written
questions regarding 2025 subsidy notifications, and other subsidy notifications
not previously-reviewed, scheduled for review at the Committee's October 2025 special meeting.
(b)
Written follow-up or other questions concerning subsidy notifications
previously reviewed, including those reviewed at the Committee's April 2025 special meeting or at any
earlier meetings.
30 September 2025 (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 October 2025 special meeting.
(b) Written answers to any follow-up or other
questions concerning previously reviewed subsidy notifications (including those
discussed at the Committee’s April 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.
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[1] _G/ADP/W/284/Rev.1
– _G/SCM/W/293/Rev.1.
[3] At its regular meeting held on 29 April 2025, the Committee agreed
that the procedures contained in _G/SCM/117
would apply to the review of the 2025 new and full subsidy notifications.