[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 209 (Tuesday, October 30, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 61409]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-21331]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

[Docket No. WTO/DS350]


WTO Dispute Settlement Proceeding Regarding Measures Related to 
Zeroing and Certain Investigations, Administrative Reviews and Sunset 
Reviews Involving Products From the European Communities; Notice of 
Opportunity To View Non-Confidential Session of Dispute Settlement 
Panel's First Meeting With the Parties

AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Office of the United States Trade Representative 
(``USTR'') is providing notice that members of the public have an 
opportunity to view the non-confidential session of the substantive 
meetings of the Panel in the World Trade Organization (``WTO'') dispute 
United States--Continued Existence and Application of Zeroing 
Methodology (WT/DS350). Further information about the dispute is 
available on the USTR Web site (including copies of the submissions 
filed by the United States at http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Monitoring_Enforcement/Dispute_Settlement/WTO/Dispute_Settlement_Index_-_Pending.html) and on the WTO Web site at http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds350_e.htm. The first meeting is 
scheduled to begin on November 27, 2007 and the second meeting is 
scheduled to begin on February 26, 2008. At each session, parties will 
make their opening statement and may pose questions or make comments on 
the other party's statement. The Panel may pose any questions or make 
any comments during the session. The questions and comments will not 
include, or refer to, business confidential information (``BCI''). To 
the extent that the Panel or either of the parties considers it 
necessary, after the public session, the Panel will proceed to a 
confidential session during which the parties will be allowed to make 
additional statements or comments and pose questions that involve BCI. 
Each non-confidential session will be shown via a real-time closed-
circuit television broadcast to a separate viewing room. The public 
viewing will be held at the World Trade Organization, Centre William 
Rappard, Rue de Lausanne 154, CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland.
    USTR invites any person interested in viewing the non-confidential 
session to so inform USTR by e-mail at [email protected]. USTR 
urges that the request be made as soon as possible and in any event no 
later than November 16, 2007 for the first meeting and February 13, 
2008 for the second meeting. Requests will be forwarded to the WTO. 
Each request should indicate the person's full name, contact 
information (full address, phone, and e-mail), organization (if any), 
and nationality, and whether the person has made any other request to 
view the session (such as a request directly to the WTO or to the other 
party to the dispute, the European Communities).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald J. Baumgarten, Jr., Assistant 
General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade Representative, 600 
17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20508, (202) 395-9583.

Daniel E. Brinza,
Assistant United States Trade Representative for Monitoring and 
Enforcement.
[FR Doc. E7-21331 Filed 10-29-07; 8:45 am]
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