 
  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/JPN/94 
23 March 2004 
 (04-1307) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
 
 The following submission, dated 18 March 2004, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Japan .  The notification concerns the price-based special safeguard ( Table MA:4 ). 
 
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 Table MA:4 
 
MARKET ACCESS:  Japan 
 
Notification under Article 5 of the Agreemen t:  special safeguard:  price-based 
 
 
B. AD HOC NOTIFICATION  
(1) Description of product: Kidney beans, including white pea beans (Phaseolus 
vulgaris), excluding rendered suitable solely for sowing by chemical treatment and certified as seeds for sowing 
vegetables in accordance with the provisions of a 
Cabinet Order, shelled, dried. 
 
(2) Tariff item number: 0713.33.229 
 
(3) Trigger price: 69.35 yen/kg. 
 (as calculated in the Annex hereto) 
 (4) Date of application:  11 March 2004 
  
SPECIAL SAFEGUARD:  PRICE-BASED:  Annex 1 to Table MA:4 
(Information required for the calculation of the Trigger Price) 
  
 Prices in the reference period:  1986:  75.40 yen/kg. 
   1987:  66.91 yen/kg. 
   1988:  59.70 yen/kg.    Average: 69.35 yen/kg.   Note
:  "Average" is weighted average by import volume. 
 
Source of price information:  Average c.i.f. unit value (MOF "Japan's Trade Statistics"). 
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