WORLD TRADE G/TMB/N/312
18December 1997
ORGANIZATION(97-5572)
Original: English Textiles Monitoring Body
AGREEMENT ONTEXTILES AND CLOTHING
Notification under Article 2.18
CANADA
TheTextiles Monitoring Bodyhasreceived anotification fromCanada pursuant toparagraph 18
ofArticle 2andiscirculating ittoWTO Members fortheirinformation.
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Permanent Mission ofCanada totheUnited Nations
Geneva
11December 1997
Ambassador András Szepesi
Chairman
Textiles Monitoring Body
World Trade Organization
Centre William Rappard
154ruedeLausanne
1211 Geneva 21
Dear Ambassador Szepesi,
Pursuant toArticle 2.18oftheAgreement onTextiles andClothing, Ihavethehonour tonotify
onbehalf ofmyauthorities theimprovement inaccess provided byCanada torestrained suppliers that
represent 1.2percentorlessofthetotalvolume ofrestrictions applied byCanada forthesecond phase
oftheAgreement onTextiles andClothing.
FifteenWTOMembersqualifyforthisimprovementinaccess:CostaRica,theCzechRepublic,
theDominicanRepublic,Hungary,Jamaica,Macau,Mauritius,Myanmar,Poland,theSlovakRepublic,
South Africa, SriLanka, Lesotho, Swaziland andUruguay. Inallcases, theimprovement wasprovided,
asstipulated inArticle 2.18, through advancement byonestage ofthegrowth rates setoutin
Articles 2.13and2.14. Thegrowth ratesfortherestrictions ineffect on31December 1997 willbe
increased by27percent. Given theremoval oftherestraint ontailored-collar shirts, Cuba which was
treated asasmall supplier, isnolonger under restraint.
Indetermining eligibility forthistreatment, Canadian authorities included notonlyrestrained
Members whose exports accounted forlessthat1.2percentofCanada 'stotal restraints on
31December 1991, butalsothose thataccounted forlessthan1.2percentoftherestraints ineffect
on31December 1994.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed) A.R.Sandy Moroz
FirstSecretary