RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/TMB/N/80
28April 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-1048)
Original: English Textiles Monitoring Body
AGREEMENT ONTEXTILES AND CLOTHING
Notification under Article 3.1
Bangladesh
TheTextiles Monitoring Body hasreceived anotification from Bangladesh, pursuant to
paragraph 1ofArticle 3.
TheTMB, inaccordance withparagraph 5ofArticle 3,iscirculating thisnotification toWTO
Members fortheirinformation.
./.G/TMB/N/80
Page2
Permanent Mission ofBangladesh 1March1995
Geneva
No.BMG/WTO-225
Dear Mr.Director-General,
Kindly refertotheWTO Agreement onTextile andClothing.
Iwould liketonotify thatinaccordance withArticle 3.1oftheagreement, theGovernment
ofBangladesh maintains import restriction oncertain textile andclothing products under theprovision
ofGATT Article XVIII (document BOP/323 dated 21.2.1995).
Alsopursuant toparagraph 1ofArticle 6oftheAgreement onTextiles andClothing1,the
Government ofBangladesh hereby notifies theTextiles Monitoring Body oftheWTO ofitsdecision
toretain theright tousethetransitional safeguard onproducts covered bytheAnnex ofthe
aforementioned Agreement, except those integrated intoGATT 1994under theprovision ofArticle 2
ofthesaidAgreement.
TheGovernment ofBangladesh willsubmit totheTMB thelistofproducts referred toin
Articles 2.6and2.7(b) oftheAgreement assoonaspossible.
With regards.
Yours sincerely,
(Syed Jamaluddin)
Economic Minister
Mr.Peter D.Sutherland
Director-General
World Trade Organization
Centre William Rappard
RuedeLausanne 154
1211 Geneva 21
1Thisnotification hasbeencirculated indocument G/TMB/N/24.