rEPORT (2020) OF THE COMMITTEE ON
ANTI-DUMPING PRACTICES
(adopted 28 october 2020)
1 ORGANIZATION
OF THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE on anti-dumping practices
1. The Agreement on Implementation of
Article VI of GATT 1994 ("the Agreement") entered into force on 1
January 1995. All Members of the WTO are ipso facto
members of the Committee on Anti‑Dumping Practices ("the Committee")
established under the Agreement.
2. Observer governments in the General
Council of the WTO have Observer status in the Committee. The International
Monetary Fund, World Bank and UNCTAD have regular Observer status in the
Committee. Pursuant to a decision of the Committee in October 1998, the Organization
of African, Caribbean and Pacific States ("OACPS") and the OECD are invited to attend
meetings on an ad hoc basis. Requests for
Observer status from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and the
Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting are under consideration by Members.
3. This report covers the period 20 November
2019 – 28 October 2020 ("the review period"). During the review
period, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Committee held only one[1]
regular meeting, on 28 October 2020.
4. As of the beginning of the review
period, Ms Lenka ŠUSTROVÁ (Czech Republic) was Chair and Ms Leticia Margarita Ramirez Aguilar
(Mexico) was Vice-Chair of the Committee. At the end of its regular meeting in
October 2020, the Committee elected Ms Maarit Keitanen (Finland) as Chair and Mr
Craig Barrington Douglas (Jamaica) as Vice-Chair.
[1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the spring meeting of the Committee
which was scheduled to be held in the week of 27 April 2020 had to be
cancelled. The Chair of the Committee, Ms Lenka ŠUSTROVÁ, sent a communication
to this effect to Members on 17 March 2020. The Chair consulted with Members to explore
possibilities for conducting work remotely/and or through a written question
and answer procedure on at least some of the agenda items that would have been
discussed at the spring Regular meeting, and informed Members in a
communication dated 13 May 2020 that no consensus had been reached on any of
the alternatives proposed. The Chair sent a further communication, regarding
the date of the October meeting, to Members on 5 June 2020. The usual
document relaying the deadlines for submission of various documentation in
conjunction with that meeting was circulated on 22 June 2020 in document
G/ADP/W/505. The agenda items that would have been taken up during the spring
meeting were carried forward to the October 2020 meeting. The minutes of the
October 2020 meeting will be circulated in document G/ADP/M/58.