. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/CZE/42
21 October 2002
(02-5739)
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 11 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: Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat
or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as
spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi,
ravioli, cannelloni, couscous, whether or not
prepared (except couscous)
2. Tariff item number: 1902 (except 1902 40)
3. Trigger level: 9,867 tonnes
(as calculated in Annex 1)
4. Volume of imports entering
territory in current period: 9,908 tonnes (1 January – 19 August 2002)
5. Period of application: from 15 October 2002 to 31 December 2002
Annex 1 to Table MA:3
Information required for the calculation of the Trigger Level
Consumption* in the three preceding years for which data are available:
1998: 45,740.1 tonnes
1999: 48,080.8 tonnes
2000: 48,642.7 tonnes
Average: 47,487.9 tonnesG/AG/N/CZE/42
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Imports in corresponding years for which data are available:
1998: 5,525.2 tonnes
1999: 6,665.1 tonnes
2000: 8,489.8 tonnes
Average quantity of imports during the three preceding years for which data are available:
2001: 10,222.7 tonnes
Average (1999-2001): 8,459.2 tonnes
* consumption = (production + import) – exportNote: Since market access opportunities for the product in question are greater than 10 per cent but
less than or equal to 30 per cent, the base trigger level equals 110 per cent (average import
98-00/average consumption 98-00 equals 14.5 per cent).
8,459.2 tonnes x 110% + 561.9 tonnes = 9,867 tonnes
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