./.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/JPN/30
17 June 1998
(98-2459)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification concerning the volume-based special safeguard (Table MA:3) was
received from the delegation of Japan  on 11 June 1998.
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Table MA:3
MARKET ACCESS:  Japan
Notification under Article 5 of the Agreement:  special safeguard:  volume-based
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1. Description of product:
Condensed milk
2. Tariff item number:
0402.99.129, 0402.99.290
3. Trigger level:
(as calculated in Annex 1)
9.25 tonnes
4. Volume of imports entering territory in cu rrent period (from 1 April 1998 to 30 April 1998):
10.28 tonnes
5. Period of application:  from 1 June 1998 to 31 March 1999G/AG/N/JPN/30
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SPECIAL SAFEGUARD:  VOLUME-BASED:  Annex 1 to Table MA:3
Information Required for the Calculation of the Trigger Level
Imports in the 3 preceding years:
1995
1996
1997
Average3.16
10.94
12.31
8.80tonnes
tonnes
tonnes
tonnes
Consumption in the 3 preceding years:
1995
19961997
Average57,216.79
51,108.0043,504.7250,609.83tonnes
tonnestonnestonnes
Note: Taking into account the absolute volume change in domestic consumption of the product
concerned from 1996 to 1997, the trigger level is set at 105 per cent of the average quantity of
imports mentioned above, in accordance with paragraph 4 of Article 5 of the Agreement onAgriculture.  Its calculation is as follows:
9.25  tonnes =  105%  *  8.80 tonnes
>  125%  *  8.80 tonnes  +  (43,504.72 tonnes  -  51,108.00 tonnes)
(Since market access opportunities (defined as imports as a percentage of the corresponding
domestic consumption during the three preceding years) for the product are less then 10 per cent,
the basic trigger level for the product concerned equals 125 per cent of the average imports.)
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