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ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/JPN/84
24 October 2003
(03-5659)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification concerning the volume-based special safeguard ( Table MA:3 ) was
received from the delegation of Japan  on 20 October 2003.
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Table MA:3
MARKET ACCESS:   Japan
Notification under Article 5 of the Agreement:  special safeguard:  volume-based
1. Description of product:
Food preparations of flour, meal or starc h, containing one or more of those groats,
meal, pellets of rice, wheat, triticale, barley or starch, which total weight is not less
than 85 per cent of the articles and mostly containing starch.
2. Tariff item number: 1901.20, 1901.90
3. Trigger level: 9.51 tonnes
(as calculated in Annex 1)
4. Volume of imports entering
territory in current period: 13.62 tonnes
5. Period of application: from 1 October 2003 to 31 March 2003G/AG/N/JPN/84
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SPECIAL SAFEGUARD:  VOLUME-BASED:  Annex 1 to Table MA:3
Information required for the calculation of the Trigger Level
Imports in the 3 preceding years: 2000: 0  tonnes
2001: 18.150  tonnes
2002: 4.663  tonnes
Average: 7.604  tonnes
Note: Since domestic consumption of the product is not taken into account, the trigger level is set at
125 per cent of the average quantity of imports mentioned above, in accordance with
paragraph 4 of Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture.  Its calculation is as follows:
9.51 tonnes = 125% x 7.604 tonnes.
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