Trade policy review report by the secretariat

Table A2. 2 Selected notifications under WTO Agreements (1 January 2012-7 October 2014)

WTO Agreement	Description of requirement	Document symbol and date of most recent notification
Agriculture
Article 18.2	Domestic support (DS:1)	G/AG/N/JPN/191, 31/03/2014
Article 18.2	Domestic support (DS:2)	G/AG/N/JPN/192, 02/04/2014
Article 18.2	Information on tariff quotas administration (MA:1)
Article 18.2	Volume of imports under tariff quotas (MA:2)	G/AG/N/JPN/196, 01/10/2014
Article 5.7	Volume-based special safeguard (MA:3)	G/AG/N/JPN/197, 06/10/2014
Article 5.7	Price-based special safeguard (MA:4)	G/AG/N/JPN/195, 28/07/2014
Articles 5.7 and 18.2	Special safeguard (MA:5)	G/AG/N/JPN/193, 24/04/2014
Articles 10 and 18.2	Export subsidies (outlays and quantities) (ES:1)	G/AG/N/JPN/194, 25/04/2014
Article 10	Volume of food aid in the context of export subsidy commitments (ES:3)	G/AG/N/JPN/188, 16/07/2013
Article 16.2	Measures concerning the possible negative effects of the reform programme on least developed and net food importing developing countries (NF:1)	G/AG/N/JPN/180, 20/11/2012
Anti-dumping
Article 16.4	Anti-dumping actions taken	G/ADP/N/259/JPN, 22/07/2014
Article 16.5	Domestic procedures and authorities competent to initiate and conduct investigation	G/ADP/N/14/Add.29 (G/SCM/N/18/Add.29), 22/04/2010
Article 18.5	Laws and regulations (and changes)	G/ADP/N/1/JPN/2/Suppl.7 G/SCM/N/1/JPN/2/Suppl.7, 29/08/2011
GATT 1994 (Article VII: Customs Valuation)
Article 22.2	Amendments	G/VAL/N/1/JPN/2, 20/09/2013
	Checklist of issues	G/VAL/N/2/JPN/2, 18/09/2013
GATT 1994 (Article XVII:4(a) Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XVII)
	Notification of products traded by state enterprises State trading activities	G/STR/N/15/JPN, 11/07/2014
Government Procurement
Article XIX:5	Statistics on government procurement	GPA/108/Add.4, 23/02/2012
Article XXIV:5(b)	Notification of national implementing legislation Laws and regulations (and changes)	GPA/W/314/Add.5, 06/02/2012 GPA/117, 22/04/2013
Article XXIV:6	Modifications to Appendix I	GPA/MOD/JPN/52, 22/06/2010 GPA/W/309/Add.5, 11/02/2010
Article XXIV:6(a)	Modifications to Annex 3 of Appendix I Modifications to Annex 1 of Appendix I	GPA/MOD/JPN/67, 09/03/2012 GPA/MOD/JPN/66, 14/02/2012
Revised GPA	Thresholds	GPA/W/328, 22/04/2014
Import Licensing Procedures
Articles 1.4(a) and 8.2(b)	Laws and regulations relevant to import licensing	No notification
Article 5.3	Notification of licensing procedures and changes	No notification
Article 7.3	Questionnaire; rules and information concerning procedures for the submission of applications	G/LIC/N/3/JPN/13, 03/10/2014
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
Article 32.6	Laws and regulations	G/ADP/N/1/JPN/2/Suppl.7, (G/SCM/N/1/JPN/2/Suppl.7), 29/08/2011
Article 25.11	Countervailing duty actions taken	G/SCM/N/235/Add.1, 24/04/2012
Article 25.1	Subsidies programmes	G/SCM/N/253/JPN, 08/07/2013 G/SCM/N/253/JPN/Suppl.1, 17/03/2014
Article 25.12	Notification of domestic procedures and authorities competent to initiate and conduct investigations	No notification
Safeguards
Article 12.6	Laws and regulations	G/SG/Q1/JPN/8, 22/04/2010
Article 12.5	Notification of termination of safeguard investigation	No notification
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
Article 6, Annex B	Notification of emergency measures (since 01/01/2012)	G/SPS/N/JPN/358, 28/07/2014 G/SPS/N/JPN/352, 25/06/2014
Article 5, Annex B	Notification of sanitary and phytosanitary measures	2012 – 22 notifications 2013 – 18 2014 – 38
Technical Barriers to Trade
Article 15.2	Laws and regulations on the implementation and administration of the TBT Agreement	G/TBT/2/Add.10, 11/06/1996
Article 2.10	Urgent technical regulations	G/TBT/N/JPN/468, 25/09/2014 G/TBT/N/JPN/462, 18/08/2014 G/TBT/N/JPN/461, 28/08/2014
Article 2.9	Technical regulations	2012 – 33 notifications 2013 – 38 notifications, 1 corrigendum 2014 – 16 notifications
Article 5.6	Conformity assessment procedures	G/TBT/N/JPN/405, 01/08/2012
Article 5.7	Urgent conformity assessment procedures	None
TRIMs
Article 5.1	Investment measures	None
TRIPS
Article 63.2	Design Act, updated text	IP/N/1/JPN/D/5, 24/06/2013
	Trademark Act, updated text	IP/N/1/JPN/T/5, 24/06/2013
	Patent Act, updated text	IP/N/1/JPN/P/9, 24/06/2013
	Laws and regulations	IP/N/1/JPN/12, 12/06/2013
	Other laws and regulations	IP/N/1/JPN/11, 03/05/2012
	Unfair Competition Prevention Act	IP/N/1/JPN/U/1, 29/02/2012
	Japanese Unfair Competition Prevention Act, updated text	IP/N/1/JPN/10, 24/02/2012
Article 69	Contact points	IP/N/7/Rev.3, 17/02/2010
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
Article III:3	Changes to laws and regulations affecting services	S/C/N/659, 05/11/2012 S/C/N/660, 05/11/2012
Regional Trade Agreements
	Notification of regional trade agreement	WT/REG309/N/1, 24/02/2012
	Notification of changes affecting the implementation of a regional trade agreement