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Article VI of GATT, 1994

receiving the guarantee pays on a loan guaranteed by the government and
the amount that the firm would pay on a comparable commercial loan
absent the government guarantee. In this case the benefit shall be the
difference between these two amounts adjusted for any differences in
fees;

(d) the provision of goods or services or purchase of goods by a government

shall not be considered as conferring a benefit unless the provision is
made for less than adequate remuneration, or the purchase is made for
more than adequate remuneration. The adequacy of remuneration shall
be determined in relation to prevailing market conditions for the good or
service in question in the country of provision or purchase (including price,
quality, availability, marketability, transportation and other conditions of
purchase or sale).

Article 15

Determination of Injury 45

15.1 A determination of injury for purposes of Article VI of GATT 1994 shall be
based on positive evidence and involve an objective examination of both (a) the
volume of the subsidized imports and the effect of the subsidized imports on
prices in the domestic market for like products and (b) the consequent impact
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of these imports on the domestic producers of such products.

45 Under this Agreement the term “injury” shall, unless otherwise specified, be taken to mean material injury to a
domestic industry, threat of material injury to a domestic industry or material retardation of the establishment
of such an industry and shall be interpreted in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
46 Throughout this Agreement the term “like product” (“produit similaire”) shall be interpreted to mean a product
which is identical, i.e. alike in all respects to the product under consideration, or in the absence of such a
product, another product which, although not alike in all respects, has characteristics closely resembling those
of the product under consideration.

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