WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SG/N/10/CZE/3
G/SG/N/11/CZE/3
17 June 2002
(02-3360)
Committee on Safeguards Original:  English
NOTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 12.1(C)
AND ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2, OF THE
AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS
CZECH REPUBLIC
The following communication, dated 11 June 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the Czech Republic.
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Pursuant to Article 12.1(c) and Article 9, Foot note 2 of the Agreement on Safeguards and in
connection with the notification contained in docu ment G/SG/N/8/CZE/3 on finding a serious injury
or threat thereof caused by increased imports, I have the honour to transmit hereto notification of theCzech Republic to the Committee on Safeguards on taking a decision to apply the definitive safeguard
measure.G/SG/N/10/CZE/3
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A. NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.1( C) UPON TAKING A DECISION TO APPLY A SAFEGUARD
MEASURE
1. Evidence of serious injury or threat thereof caused by increased imports
This information was provided in previous notification.  See G/SG/N/8/CZE/3.
2. Information on an absolute increase in imports and on an increase in imports relative to
domestic production
This information was provided in previous notification.  See G/SG/N/8/CZE/3.
3. Precise description of the product involved
HS item 1806 10 90
Cocoa powder containing 80 per cent or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar
expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose (HS item 1806 10 90).
4. Precise description of the measure:
The safeguard measure has a form of a tariff quota. Imports in question within the tariff quota
are subject to import duty set forth in the Customs Tariff or International Agreement binding the
Czech Republic.  The additional rate of duty for imports above the tariff quota on cocoa powder is set
at 113 per cent with the minimum level of total duty amounting to K č 12.20/kg.
Average imports in 1998 – 2000: 93.2 tons
Tariff quota for the whole year 2002: 95 tons
Already realized imports of cocoa powder in 2002: 48 tons
Tariff quota from the effective date to 31 December 2002: 47 tons
Period Tariff quota
From the effective date to 31 December 2002 47 tons
From 1 January to 31 March 2003 25 tons
From 1 April to 30 June 2003 25 tons
From 1 July to 30 September 2003 25 tons
From 1 October to 31 December 2003 25 tons
From 1 January to 31 March 2004 27 tons
From 1 April to 30 June 2004 27 tons
From 1 July to 30 September 2004 27 tons
From 1 October to 31 December 2004 27 tons
From 1 January to 31 March 2005 32 tons
From 1 April to 30 June 2005 32 tons
From 1 July to 30 September 2005 32 tons
From 1 October to 29 November 2005 32 tons
5. Date of introduction of the measure
The Government Regulation No. 239/2002 Coll., Imposing a Safeguard Measure comes into
effect on 14 June 2002.G/SG/N/10/CZE/3
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6. Duration of the measure
The safeguard measure is expected to be in effect until 29 November 2005.
7. Date for the review
If implemented for the above period a review will be held not later than two years since the
adoption of the measure, but no date has been scheduled.
8. Timetable for progressive liberalization of the measure
The tariff quota will be progressively liberalized through an annual increase.
B. NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2, ON THE NON -APPLICATION OF SAFEGUARD
MEASURE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES UNDER ARTICLE 9.1
1. Specify the measure
See response to question A 4 above.
2. Specify the product subject to the measure
See response to question A 3 above.
3. Specify the developing countries to which the measure is not applicable under Article 9.1 of
the Agreement on Safeguards, and the import shares of these countries individually and
collectively
The developing countries to which the measure is not applied under Article 9.1 of the
Agreement on Safeguards are the members of the WTO listed in Annex of the Government
Regulation No. 480/2001, issuing the Customs Tariff and establishing rates of import tariffs on goods
originating in developing countries and least developed countries and the terms for their application.
A list of these countries is attached to this notification.
4. Subsequently, if there is a change in the list of developing countries exempted from the
safeguard measure pursuant to Article 9.1, please notify
(i) the reference to the WTO document that no tified the Members about the initial action
under footnote 2 to Article 9.1;
(ii) if applicable, names of the countries which are dropped from the list of developing
countries to which the safeguard measure does not apply pursuant to Article 9.1, the
countries remaining on the list, the individual and collective import shares of thedeveloping countries remaining on the list, and the date on which the safeguard
measure applies to the countries dropped from the list;G/SG/N/10/CZE/3
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(iii) if applicable, names of the countries which are added to the list of developing
countries to which the safeguard measure does not apply pursuant to Article 9.1, the
list of all the countries on the list, the individual and collective import shares of the
developing countries on the list, and the date from which the safeguard measure doesnot apply to the countries which are added to the list.
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ANNEX
AL Albania LS Lesotho
AO Angola MG Madagascar
AG Antigua and Barbuda MY Malaysia
AR Argentina MW Malawi
BH Kingdom of Bahrain MV Maldives
BD Bangladesh ML Mali
BB Barbados MR Mauritania
BZ Belize MU Mauritius
BJ Benin MX Mexico
BO Bolivia MD Moldova
BW Botswana MN Mongolia
BR Brazil MA Morocco
BN Brunei Darussalam MZ Mozambique
BF Burkina Faso MM Myanmar
BI Burundi NA Namibia
CM Cameroon NI Nicaragua
CF Central African Republic NE Niger
TD Chad NG Nigeria
CL Chile OM Oman
CN China PK Pakistan
CO Colombia PA Panama
CG Congo PG Papua New Guinea
CR Costa Rica PY Paraguay
CI Côte d’Ivoire PE Peru
CU Cuba PH Philippines
CD Democratic Republic of the Congo QA Qatar
DJ Djibouti RW Rwanda
DM Dominica LC Saint Lucia
DO Dominican Republic VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
EC Ecuador SN Senegal
EG Egypt SL Sierra Leone
SV El Salvador SB Solomon Islands
FJ Fiji ZA South Africa
GA Gabon LK Sri Lanka
GM Gambia SR Suriname
GE Georgia SZ SwazilandG/SG/N/10/CZE/3
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GH Ghana TZ Tanzania
GD Grenada TH Thailand
GT Guatemala TG Togo
GN Guinea TT Trinidad and Tobago
GW Guinea-Bissau TN Tunisia
GY Guyana UG Uganda
HT Haiti AE United Arab Emirates
HN Honduras UY Uruguay
IN India VE Venezuela
ID Indonesia ZM Zambia
JM Jamaica ZW Zimbabwe
JO Jordan
KE Kenya
KW Kuwait
KG Kyrgyz Republic
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