The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), on 21 October, established a panel to examine complaints by the European Communities and Japan that a Massachusetts law had violated provisions of the plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement. It decided to revert to three new panel requests at its next regular meeting (scheduled for 25 November): the United States? complaint against Mexico?s anti-dumping investigation of US high-fructose corn syrup; Canada?s complaint against EC?s measures affecting asbestos; and Hungary?s complaint against the Slovak Republic?s import duty on Hungarian wheat. Canada and the EC gave status reports on the implementation of DSB recommendations with respect to the periodicals and the banana cases, respectively.