WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TMB/R/63
20 April 2000
(00-1620)
Textiles Monitoring Body
REPORT OF THE SIXTY-FOURTH MEETING
1. The Textiles Monitoring Body held its sixty-fourth meeting on 13 March 2000.
2. Present at this meeting were the following members and/or alternates: Messrs. Chung/Ahn;
Karapinar; Kobayashi; Kumar; Moroz; Nayyar/Ms Loi; Messrs. Richards; Tadpitakkul/Bernabe;
Tagliani; Valencia/Lunazzi.
3. The TMB adopted the report of its sixty-third meeting (G/TMB/R/62).
Communications received by the TMB
Argentina/Korea
4. The TMB received a communication from Korea with reference to the provisional safeguard
measure applied by Argentina under Article 6.11 on imports from Korea of products of categories229/629, 619 and 620.  The bilateral consultations between Korea and Argentina had not produced
agreement and Korea requested that the TMB examine the matter and make appropriate
recommendations.  The TMB had scheduled to cond uct this examination during its sixty-fourth
meeting and had invited the participation of representatives from both Argentina and Korea.
However, the TMB subsequently received a furt her communication from Korea informing it that, in
view of the fact that the consultations had resumed between Korea and Argentina after the above
communication had been made, Korea requested the TMB to defer its examination of the matter until
a later communication.  The TMB took note of this request.
Argentina/Pakistan
5. The TMB took note of a communication by Argentina informing the Body that it was the
intention of Argentina to comply with the recommendations made by the TMB, contained in
G/TMB/221, regarding the transitional safeguard measures applied by Argentina, pursuant to
Article 6.11, to imports of woven fabrics of cotton and its mixtures originating in Pakistan
(G/TMB/N/349).
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1 See G/TMB/22, paragraphs 54 and 57, and also G/TMB/R/61, paragraphs 56 and 59.