 
__________  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/JPN/102 
17 November 2004 
 (04-4949) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
  The following submission, dated 9 November 2004, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Japan .  The notification concerns the volume-based special safeguard (Table MA:3) . 
 
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 Table MA:3 
MARKET ACCESS:   Japan  
 
Notification under Article 5 of the Agreemen t:  special safeguard:  volume-based 
 
 1. Description of product: Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing 
added sugar or other sweetening matter: 
      - Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 1% but not 
exceeding 6%, sterilized, frozen or preserved 
  2. Tariff item number:   0401.20.190 
  3. Trigger level:    0.63 tonnes 
  (as calculated in Annex 1) 
 
4.  Volume of imports entering  
territory in current period:  1.58 tonnes 
  5. Period of application:  from 1 November 2004 to 31 March 2005 
 
  
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: 2001:   1.51    tonnes       2002:   0.00    tonnes 
      2003:   0.00    tonnes 
      Average:  0.50    tonnes  Note
: Since domestic consumption of the product is not  taken into account, the trigger level is set at 
125 per cent of the average quantity of im ports mentioned above, in accordance with 
paragraph 4 of Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture.  Its calculation is as follows: 
 
   0.63 tonnes = 125% x 0.50 tonnes 