RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/TMB/N/81
28April 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-1049)
Original: English Textiles Monitoring Body
AGREEMENT ONTEXTILES AND CLOTHING
Notification under Article 3.1
Pakistan
TheTextilesMonitoringBodyhasreceivedanotificationfromPakistan,pursuanttoparagraph1
ofArticle 3.
TheTMB, inaccordance withparagraph 5ofArticle 3,iscirculating thisnotification toWTO
Members fortheirinformation.G/TMB/N/81
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Permanent Mission ofPakistan 28February 1995
Geneva
No.Econ-2/10/94
TheDirector General
World Trade Organization
GATT/WTO Secretariat
Centre William Rappard
RuedeLausanne
CH1211 Geneva 21
Subject: Notification byPakistan pursuant toArticle 3.1
oftheAgreement onTextiles andClothing
Dear Sir,
Kindly findenclosed anotification from theGovernment ofPakistan concerning import
restrictions being maintained oncertain textile andclothing products onaccount ofBalance-of-Payments
reasons.
2. Thisnotification isbeing made totheTextiles Monitoring Body pursuant toArticle 3.1ofthe
Agreement onTextiles andClothing.
Yours faithfully,
AsafGhafoor
Encl: AsaboveG/TMB/N/81
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Notification byPakistan pursuant toArticle 3.1
oftheAgreement onTextiles andClothing
Pakistan hasmaintained import restrictions oncertain textile andclothing products (GATT
document L/6830) onaccount ofBalance-of-Payments reasons inaccordance withArticle XVIII:B
oftheGATT. Theinvocation ofArticle XVIII:B byPakistan wasreviewed bytheCommittee on
Balance-of-Payments Restrictions initsmeeting on15November 1994 (doc. BOP/R/221).
2. Pakistan proposed toupdate/modify itsnotification indocument L/6830. Theupdated/modified
notification would bemade available totheTMB.