WTO Releases Aug. 30 Dispute Settlement Body Agenda

The World Trade Organization circulated the agenda for the Aug. 30 meeting of the dispute settlement body, which includes a briefing on the implementation status of the dispute resolutions for the U.S.'s antidumping measures on certain hot-rolled steel goods from Japan; Section 110(5) of the U.S. Copyright Act; the antidumping and countervailing duties on large residential washers from South Korea; and certain methdologies and their application to antidumping investigations concerning China. The DSB will also hear about the U.S.'s Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000, and will receive a statement from the U.S. about the European Union's measures affecting trade in large civil aircraft.