WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/CZE/43
7 November 2002
(02-6143)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification concerning the volume-based special safeguard ( Table MA:3 ) was
received from the delegation of the Czech Republic  on 31 October 2002.
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Table MA:3
MARKET ACCESS:  Czech Republic
Notification under Article 5 of the Agreement:  Special Safeguard:  Volume-based
1. Description of product: Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen
2. Tariff item number: 0203
3. Trigger level: 19,028 tonnes
(as calculated in Annex 1)
4. Volume of imports entering
territory in current period: 19,149 tonnes (1 January – 24 September 2002)
5. Period of application: from 4 November 2002 to 31 December 2002
Annex 1 to Table MA:3
Information required for the calculation of the Trigger Level
Imports in the 3 preceding years: 1999: 16,420.6 tonnes
2000: 13,524.2 tonnes
2001: 15,720.4 tonnes
Average: 15,221.8 tonnes
Note: Since domestic consumption of the product is not taken into account, the trigger level is set at
125 per cent of the average quantity of imports mentioned above, in accordance with
paragraph 4 of Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture.  Its calculation is as follows:
19,027.3 tonnes = 125% of 15,221.8 tonnes
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