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(95-2698)

Original: English/Spanish

Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

REPORTS UNDER ARTICLES 2:16 AND 25.11OF THE AGREEMENTS

July 1995

Note by the Secretariat

Listed hereunder are reports under Article 2:16 of the Tokyo Round Agreement and Article 25.11 of the Uruguay Round Agreement received in July 1995. These reports have been received from Australia, the EC, Mexico and the United States and are available in the WTO Secretariat for inspection by government representatives.

Members will recall that the WTO Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures decided that all preliminary and final actions taken after the date of entry into force of the WTO Agreement would be notified to the Committee. The Member would indicate in its notification whether in its view the action related to an investigation or review to which the provisions of the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, or the Tokyo Round Agreement on Interpretation and Application of Articles VI, XVI and XXIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or Article VI of the GATT 1947 applied.

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Product Country or Customs

Territory

Bulk brandy France

Product Country or Customs

Territory

Cold-rolled sheet Australia

Brazil

Canada

Germany

Korea, Rep. of

United States

Venezuela

Hot-rolled sheet Brazil

Canada

Germany

Korea, Rep. of

Netherlands

Venezuela

Plate in sheets Brazil

Canada

United States

Plate in coils Brazil

Canada

Korea

South Africa

United States

Venezuela

Various pork products Denmark

Plywood of Meranti and other tropical species Indonesia

Reporting Member: UNITED STATES

(Tokyo Round)

Certain oil country tubular goods ("OCTG") Austria

Italy

Manganese metal China, P.R.

Certain circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes Thailand

Reporting Member: UNITED STATES (Cont'd)

(Uruguay Round)

Product Country or Customs

Territory

Antifriction bearings (other than tapered roller bearings) Singapore

and parts thereof

Ball bearings and parts thereof Thailand