. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TMB/N/63/Add.12/Suppl.4
11 October 2002
(02-5504)
Textiles Monitoring Body Original:  English
AGREEMENT ON TEXTILES AND CLOTHING
Notification under Article 2.1
UNITED STATES
Supplement
The Textiles Monitoring Body has received a fourth supplement to the notification made by
the United States pursuant to Article 2.1.
The TMB, in accordance with Article 2.2, is circulating this notification to WTO Members
for their information.G/TMB/N/63/ Add.12/Suppl.4
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Permanent Mission of the United States
to the World Trade Organization
Geneva
10 October 2002
The Honourable András Szepesi
Chairman
Textiles Monitoring BodyWorld Trade Organization
Rue de Lausanne 154
1211 Geneva
Switzerland
Dear Mr. Chairman,
I refer to your letter of 1 August 2002 concerning category 659-S.  We regret the confusion
caused by the dual use of the designation 659-S in our integration and notification documents.  Thedesignation Category 659-S was inadvertently used differently for purposes of quantitative restraints
and integration methodology.  Category 659-S, as listed in the quantitative restraints in force for
China on 10 December 2001, refers to swimwear.  This category will not be integrated until
1 January 2005.  Category 659-S, as listed in our table of integrated products, refers to shawls and
scarves, and was integrated under Stage 3, effective on 1 January 2002.
Shawls and scarves were subject to China’s Group II limit, as part of Category 659-O.
During our integration exercise, we inadvertently deducted the average trade for these products from
China’s Group I limit.  On 29 August 2002, the United States made an administrative correction to
China’s 2002 Group I and Group II limits that added the trade for these products back into China’sGroup I limit and deducted them from China’s Group II limit.
Sincerely,
(Signed)
David M. Spooner
Special Textile Negotiator
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