united states – laws, regulations and methodology

for calculating dumping margins ("zeroing")

Request for Consultations by the European Communities

Addendum

            The following communication, dated 8 September 2003, from the Permanent Delegation of the European Commission to the Permanent Mission of the United States and to the Chairman of the Dispute Settlement Body, is circulated in accordance with Article 4.4 of the DSU.

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The European Communities refers to the consultations held on 17 July 2003 concerning the United States of America's laws, regulations and methodology for calculating dumping margins ("zeroing") as applied in a number of new anti-dumping investigations and reviews, as set out in the European Communities' request for consultations dated 12 June 2003 (WT/DS294/1, G/L/630, G/ADP/D49/1). The European Communities hereby requests further consultations with the Government of the United States of America.

Further to the first round of consultations, the European Communities has identified additional investigations in which the US DOC applied the "zeroing" methodology in calculating the margin of dumping. The cases concerned are listed in the Annex attached hereto. For the sake of convenience, the Annex continues the numbering of Annex II of the original request for consultations and therefore starts at number 22.

This request is with respect to the determinations of dumping by the DOC, the determination of injury by the United States International Trade Commission and the DOC notice for the imposition of the anti-dumping duty in the cases listed in Annex.