WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TMB/N/431/Add.1
24 July 2002
(02-4096)
Textiles Monitoring Body Original:  Spanish
AGREEMENT ON TEXTILES AND CLOTHING
Notification under Articles 2.8(b) and 2.11
VENEZUELA
Addendum
The Textiles Monitoring Body has received an additional notification from Venezuela
pursuant to Articles 2.8(b) and 2.11.
The TMB, in accordance with Article 2.11, is circulating this notification to WTO Members
for their information.G/TMB/N/431/Add.1
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Permanent Mission of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
to the United Nations Office
and Other International Organizations
in Geneva
Geneva, 15 July 2002
Mr András Szepesi
ChairmanTextiles Monitoring Body
World Trade Organization
Centre William Rappard
154, rue de Lausanne
1211 Geneva 10
Sir,
I write with reference to your letter No. TMB/100 of 17 April 2002 seeking clarification with
respect to the identification of various products and the methodology used to calculate the percentages
in the notification made by Venezuela (document G/TMB/N/431) pursuant to Articles 2.8(b) and 2.11
of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC).
Venezuela confirms that there is indeed a difference between the total import volume for 1990
which appears in the notifications corresponding to the first and second stages and the figure in the
notification mentioned in the above paragraph, corresponding to the third stage of the integration
process under the ATC.  In this respect, Venezuela would like to clarify that, following reviews by its
national body competent in calculating trade statistics, the total 1990 import volume stands at
43,789,469 kg.  This is therefore the figure that Venezuela would use as a basis for calculating the
corresponding percentages.
Venezuela also notes that, if this figure is used as a basis for calculating the percentages,
0.16 per cent still remains to be integrated for the share of 1990 import volume to reach 18 per cent,
as required by the third stage of the integration process under the ATC.
With regard to your question on the identification of products belonging to HS lines only part
of which fall under the coverage of the ATC, I hereby wish to inform you that the Venezuelan
statistical information system only provides data at the tariff subheading level, and that it is
impossible to obtain a breakdown of the range of goods which can be classified under the same
subheading. In this respect, we conclude that the percentage notified for these subheadings does notnecessarily correspond to that specified in the ATC Annex.G/TMB/N/431/Add.1
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With a view to resolving the above situations, Venezuela would like to include the following
tariff item in the list in its notification corresponding to the third stage of the integration process under
the ATC:
HS line: 5503.40
Description: Staple fibres of polypropylene, not carded or combed
Volume of imports for 1990 (kg.): 1,149,312
Percentage share: 2.62 per cent
Yours faithfully,
(Signed)
Alfredo Michelena Rodríguez
Minister Counsellor
Chargé d'affaires a.i.
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