Article 1907: Consultations
1. The Parties shall consult annually, or on the request of any Party, to consider any problems that may arise with respect to the implementation or operation of this Chapter and recommend solutions, where appropriate. The Parties shall each designate one or more officials, including officials of the competent investigating authorities, to be responsible for ensuring that consultations occur, when required, so that the provisions of this Chapter are carried out expeditiously.
2. The Parties further agree to consult on:
(a) the potential to develop more effective rules and
disciplines concerning the use of government subsidies;
and
(b) the potential for reliance on a substitute system of
rules for dealing with unfair transborder pricing
practices and government subsidization.
3. The competent investigating authorities of the Parties shall consult annually or on the request of any Party and may submit reports to the Commission, if appropriate. In the context of these consultations, the Parties agree that it is desirable in the administration of anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws to:
(a) publish notice of initiation of investigations in the importing country's official journal, setting forth the nature of the proceeding, the legal authority under which the proceeding is initiated, and a description of the product at issue;
(b) provide notice of the times for submissions of
information and for decisions that the competent
investigating authorities are expressly required by
statute or regulations to make;
(c) provide explicit written notice and instructions as to
the information required from interested parties,
including foreign interests, and reasonable time to
respond to requests for information;
(d) accord reasonable access to information