U.S.-Canada Free-Trade Agreement, Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews: Completion of Extraordinary Challenge

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

U.S.-Canada Free-Trade Agreement, Article 1904 Binational Panel

Reviews: Completion of Extraordinary Challenge

AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States Section, International Trade

Administration, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Completion of the Extraordinary Challenge Committee

Review of the binational panel review of the affirmative countervailing

duty determination made by the International Trade Administration,

respecting Softwood Lumber Products from Canada, Secretariat File No.

ECC-94-1904-01USA.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to CFTA Rule 66 of the Rules of Procedure for Article

1904 Extraordinary Challenge Committees, and the Extraordinary

Challenge Committee Memorandum Opinions and Order dated August 3, 1994,

the Extraordinary Challenge Committee Review of the binational panel

review described above was completed effective on August 4, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James R. Holbein, United States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat, Suite

2061, 14th and Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20230, (202) 482-

5438.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By a decision dated August 3, 1994, the

Extraordinary Challenge Committee in Secretariat File No. ECC-94-1904-

01USA, dismissed the request for an extraordinary challenge of the

Binational Panel's May 6, 1993 and December 17, 1993 Memoranda Opinion

and Order for failure to meet the standards of an extraordinary

challenge set forth in FTA Article 1904.13. The Committee ordered that

the Binational Panel's Memoranda Opinion and Orders shall remain in

effect and affirmed the Orders of the Panel dated May 6, 1993, and

December 17, 1993 and February 23, 1994. Pursuant to Rules 66 & 67, the

Committee members are discharged from their duties effective August 4,

1994, the day after the decision affirming the panel decision.

Dated: August 8, 1994.

James R. Holbein,

United States Secretary NAFTA Secretariat.

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