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PublicFTAA.ngadcv/com/12
 September 5, 2001
 
 Original: English - Spanish
 
 
 
FTAA – NEGOTIATING GROUP ON SUBSIDIES, ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTIES
 Twelfth Meeting
 Panama, September 3 - 5, 2001
 
PRESS COMMUNIQUÉ 
 
The Twelfth Meeting of the Negotiating Group on Subsidies, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties (NGADCV) was held in Panama from September 3-5, 2001. Representatives of 20 countries of the Hemisphere were in attendance: 
 
 
    
      
        |  | Argentina |  | El Salvador |  
        |  | Bahamas |  | Guatemala |  
        |  | Bolivia |  | Honduras |  
        |  | Brazil |  | Mexico |  
        |  | Canada |  | Panama |  
        |  | Chile |  | Peru |  
        |  | Colombia |  | Trinidad and Tobago |  
        |  | Costa Rica |  | United States |  
        |  | Dominican Republic |  | Uruguay |  
        |  | Ecuador |  | Venezuela |  The deliberations followed the agenda:
 
 
 
Draft consolidated text on Subsidies, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties: Articles 4-6: definition 
of domestic industry, initiation and subsequent investigation, evidence. 
 
Identification of options for deepening disciplines on subsidies 
 
Identification, based on the Study on the Interaction Between Trade and Competition Policies, of 
any areas that may merit further consideration by the TNC 
 
Other business
 
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