Upon instructions from my authorities, and on behalf of the Government of Korea, I hereby request consultations with the Government of the United States of America ("United States") pursuant to Article 4 of the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes ("DSU"), Article XXII:1 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 ("GATT 1994"), and Article 17 of the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of GATT 1994 ("Anti-Dumping Agreement"), with regard to the application, commonly referred to as "zeroing," by which the United States Department of Commerce ("USDOC") treats transactions with negative dumping margins as having margins equal to zero for purposes of determining the weighted-average dumping margins in its anti-dumping investigations.