Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras expressed serious concern
over the Dominican Republic’s safeguard measure on tubular fabric and
polypropylene bags, adding that they have started dispute-settlement
consultations on this matter.
The European Union, in reply to questions from
China, said that its safeguard investigation on wireless wide area
networking modems was based on prime facie evidence, and that it was
justified to conduct simultaneous anti-dumping and countervailing-duty
investigations on the same product.
The EU expressed concern over Indonesia’s growing
number of safeguard actions. The United States echoed the EU’s concerns.
Indonesia said these safeguard investigations would be conducted objectively
and would follow WTO rules.
Egypt expressed serious concern about Jordan’s
safeguard measure on ceramic tiles, in particular the use of what it said
was outdated data. Jordan said the measure was justified.
The EU questioned the late notification of
Morocco’s safeguard investigation on machine-made carpets, and urged Morocco
to hold consultations in accordance with the Safeguard Agreement. Egypt
shared the EU comments.
The EU said it had participated in the
consultation regarding the Philippine’s investigation on testliner board
(raw material used in the production of packaging boxes), and maintained
that the problems of the domestic industry concerned were not due to imports
but to inefficiency and the economic crisis.
The EU questioned the basis of Ukraine’s safeguard
investigation on cooling and refrigerating equipment.
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