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WORLD TRADE G/SG/Q2/ARG/3
12May1998
ORGANIZATION(98-1878)
Original: English Committee onSafeguards
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.1(A) OFTHE AGREEMENT ON
SAFEGUARDS ONINITIATION OFANINVESTIGATION
AND THE REASONS FOR IT
Questions posed bytheUNITED STATES
toARGENTINA1
Thefollowing communication, dated 29April 1998, hasbeenreceived from thePermanent
Mission oftheUnited States.
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USQuestions Raised attheWTO Safeguards Committee Meeting
According tothenotification, Chapter XIIof“Transitional provisions ”oftheRegulation,
approved bytheDecision oftheMERCOSUR Council No.17,of17December 1996, “...establishes
atransition period lasting upto31December 1998, during which States parties willcontinue toapply
theirdomestic legislation where safeguard measures tobeapplied byjustoneofthemareconcerned ...”.
IfArgentina decides toimpose asafeguard measure ontoyimports, howwould themeasure beapplied
toimports from MERCOSUR partners andfrom thirdparties beginning inJanuary 1999?
Foreachoftheproducts listed inthenotification, please provide thecurrent applied tariffrates
andbound dutyrates.
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1G/SG/N/6/ARG/2.