ANNEX I
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE NEGOTIATING GROUPS

D) SUBSIDIES, ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTIES.

1. We instruct the Negotiating Group on Subsidies, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties to intensify its work of identifying options for deepening, where appropriate, existing disciplines on subsidies in the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and to submit to the Trade Negotiations Committee recommendations on methodologies for deepening disciplines on subsidies by the deadline of April 1, 2002, for evaluation by the TNC during its first meeting following that date.

2. We instruct the Negotiating Group on Subsidies, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties to intensify its efforts to reach a common understanding with a view to improving, where possible, the rules and procedures for the operation and enforcement of trade remedy laws, so as not to create unjustified obstacles to free trade within the Hemisphere, and to submit its recommendations on the methodology to be used to achieve this objective by the deadline of April 1, 2002, for evaluation by the Trade Negotiations Committee at its first meeting following that date.

3. We instruct the Negotiating Group on Subsidies, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties to identify, based on the Study on the Interaction Between Trade and Competition Policies (document FTAA.ngadvc/inf/07Cor.1), any areas that may merit further consideration by the Trade Negotiations Committee and to present its results to the Trade Negotiations Committee by the deadline of April 1, 2002..