Introduction. The most classical sufficient condition for the fixed point property of non-expansive mappings FPP in Banach spaces is the normal structure (see [6] and [10] Moreover, the permanence of the FPP for the /]-product of two Banach spaces with this property is still only partially understood. In a recent paper [11] T. Kukzumov, S. Reich and M. Schmidt have given sufficient conditions for a product of two Banach Spaces A", and X 2 endowed with the /]-product norm to have FPP. They introduce the semi-Opial property, mainly with the technical role of guaranteeing the FPP for a space Ri®A"2 provided that the space X 2 has FPP. Thus, if the space A'j is uniformly convex in every direction UCED and the second space X 2 verifies the semi-Opial property, then the /,-product X A ®, X 2 have the FPP.Here we also show that if the space A^ has the generalized Gossez-Lami Dozo property (a known sufficient condition for weak normal structure [8]) and the second space X 2 verifies the semi-Opial property, then the /,-product X 1 <8> i X 2 has the FPP. The scope of this last result is different from that of Theorem (1) of [11]. For example, a non UCED James space J has the generalized Gossez-Lami Dozo property while the space c 0 has a UCED renorming without the GGLD property.