. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TMB/N/62/Add.4/Corr.1/Suppl.1
12 April 2002
(02-2023)
Textiles Monitoring Body Original:  English
AGREEMENT ON TEXTILES AND CLOTHING
Notification under Article 2.1
CANADA
Supplement
The Textiles Monitoring Body has received a supplement to the corrigendum to the
additional notification made by Canada pursuant to Article 2.1.
The TMB, in accordance with Article 2.2, is circulating this notification to WTO Members
for their information.G/TMB/N/62/Add.4/ Corr.1/Suppl.1
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The Permanent Mission of Canada
to the United Nations
28 March 2002
Mr. András Szepesi
ChairmanTextiles Monitoring Body
World Trade Organization
Centre William Rappard
Rue de Lausanne 154
CH-1211 Genève 21
Dear Mr. Szepesi,
This is in response to your letter of 6 March 2002, requesting further information regarding
Canada’s application of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) to  exports from Chinese
Taipei to Canada of textiles and textile products.
As regards Canada’s application of the growth-on-growth provisions, as you noted in your
letter, paragraph 167 of the Report of the Working Party stipulates that “the increase in growth
rates provided for in Articles 2.13 and 2.14 of the ATC would be applied, in stages, from the date
of accession of Chinese Taipei.”  Since Chinese Taipei only became a Member of the WTO on1 January 2002, the relevant stage is the third stage of integration under the ATC.  Therefore
Canada applied the third stage growth-on-growth provision and increased the growth rates of the
remaining restraints on imports from Chinese Taipei by 27 per cent on 1 January 2002.
As regards the absence of restraint levels reported for Agreement Items 1a and 2a, the
products covered by these Agreement Items fall under the restraint levels for Agreement Items 1
and 2.  But in addition to the restraint levels established for Agreement Items 1 and 2, Canada
provides special swing for products of Agreement Items 1a and 2a as indicated in notes 1 and 2 in
the Annex.
Turning to the interpretation of note 3, the reference to category 3.0 of Agreement Item 3
refers to all of category 3 items including category 3.2.  Category 3.2 is not specifically mentioned
as no sub-limit applies.
Yours sincerely,
(signed) A. R. (Sandy) Moroz
Counsellor
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