RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/TMB/N/128/Add.1
9February 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-0491)
Original: French Textiles Monitoring Body
AGREEMENT ONTEXTILES AND CLOTHING
Notification under Articles 2.6and2.7(b)
Tunisia
Addendum
TheTextiles Monitoring Body hasreceived afurther notification from Tunisia, pursuant to
paragraphs 6and7(b)ofArticle 2.
TheTMB, inaccordance withparagraph 7(b)ofArticle 2,iscirculating thisnotification to
WTO Members fortheirinformation.G/TMB/N/128/Add.1
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Permanent Mission ofTunisia
totheUnited Nations Office andthe
Specialized Agencies atGeneva
No.671
15December 1995
Mr.Chairman,
Followingyourletter,referenceA/TMB/402.6of24November1995,containingthecomments
made bytheTextiles Monitoring Body ontheNotification submitted byTunisia under Articles 2.6
and2.7(b) oftheAgreement onTextiles andClothing, Iamattaching herewith alistofproducts with
thenecessary clarifications.
Itakethisopportunity toassure you,Mr.Chairman, ofmyhighest consideration.
(signed)
Moncef BAATI
Chargé d'Affaires a.i.
Mr.András Szepesi
Chairman oftheTextiles Monitoring Body
World Trade Organization
Centre William Rappard
154,ruedeLausanne
1211 Geneva 21G/TMB/N/128/Add.1
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ListofProducts tobeIntegrated intotheGATT During theFirst Stage
Year 1990 Unit=kg.
HSLINE PRODUCT IMPORTS
VALUE QUANTITY
COMBED AND SPUN
530610000 Flaxyarn, single 187,343 27,236
530620000 Flaxyarn, multiple (folded) orcabled 74,630 14,138
540310000 High tenacity yarn(other thansewing thread) of
viscose rayon filament, including monofilament,
<67decitex, notputupforretail sale 316,400 111,427
540331000 Other yarn, single, including monofilament of
<67decitex, ofviscose rayon, untwisted or
withatwist notexceeding 120turns permetre,
notputupforretail sale. 472,527 96,681
540333000 Yarn ofcellular acetate filaments, single,
including monofilament <67decitex (other than
sewing thread), notputupforretail sale 1,846,001 346,738
540341000 Other multiple (folded) orcabled yarnofviscose
rayon filaments, notputupforretail sale 68,397 14,264
540342000 Other multiple (folded) orcabled yarnof
cellulose acetate filaments (other thansewing
thread), notputupforretail sale 118,451 21,982
550130000 Filament towofacrylic ormodacrylic 1,155,815 690,516
550200200 Filament towofacetate 1,618,811 443,703
550320000 Staple fibres ofpolyesters, notcarded or
combed, orotherwise processed forspinning 1,736,918 1,042,023
550330000 Staple fibres ofacrylic ormodacrylic, notcarded
orcombed orotherwise processed forspinning 1,637,598 933,216
550340000 Staple fibres ofpolypropylene, notcarded or
combed orotherwise processed forspinning 1,059,368 657,252
550410000 Staple fibres ofviscose, notcarded orcombed or
otherwise processed forspinning 383,090 181,355
550490990 Other artificial staple fibres, notcarded or
combed orotherwise processed forspinning 191,916 103,492
550610000 Staple fibres ofnylon orother polyamides,
carded, combed orotherwise processed for
spinning 150,445 31,209
550620000 Staple fibres ofpolyester, carded, combed or
otherwise processed forspinning 207,211 118,189G/TMB/N/128/Add.1
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HSLINE PRODUCT IMPORTS
VALUE QUANTITY
550630000 Acrylic ormodacrylic fibres, carded, combed or
otherwise processed forspinning 3,225,709 1,559,802
550690000 Other synthetic staple fibres, carded, combed or
otherwise processed forspinning 182,563 58,427
FABRICS
500720100 Woven fabrics ofsilk,containing 85%ormore
ofsilk 76,751 1,134
511300200 Woven fabrics ofcoarse animal orhorse hair 24,142 8,608
531100200 Woven fabrics ofpaper yarn 5,410 825
590699010 Other rubberized textile fabrics, other thanthose
under No.5902, fortyres 1,195,827 190,458
590699090 Other rubberized textile fabrics, other thanthose
under No.5902 99,062 35,452
591131000 Textile fabrics andfelts, endless orfitted with
linking devices, ofakindusedinpaper-making
orsimilar machines (forexample, forpulpor
asbestos-cement) weighing lessthan650g/m2493,928 13,649
MADE-UP ARTICLES
590210000 Tyrecordfabric ofhightenacity yarnofnylon
orother polyamides 1,388,203 213,498
590290000 Tyrecordfabric ofhightenacity yarnofviscose
rayon 1,979,052 313,947
590800020 Incandescent gasmantles andtubular knitted gas
mantle fabric, whether ornotimpregnated 190,263 18,386
590900000 Textile hose-piping andsimilar textile tubing,
withorwithout lining, armour oraccessories of
other materials 310,059 39,569
591000000 Transmission orconveyor beltsorbelting, of
textile materials, whether ornotreinforced with
metal orother material 187,471 6,342
591190990 Other textile products andarticles fortechnical
uses, included inNote 7tothisChapter 980,930 44,280
630699990 Other camping goods ofother textile materials 50,092 10,425
630720000 Lifejackets andlifebeltsoftextile materials 40,985 523G/TMB/N/128/Add.1
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HSLINE PRODUCT IMPORTS
VALUE QUANTITY
CLOTHING
611220010 Skisuits, knitted orcrocheted, insynthetic
textile fibres 0 0
611220090 Skisuits, knitted orcrocheted, inother textile
materials 0 0
611592100 Stockings forvaricose veins, knitted or
crocheted, incotton 1,885 35
611593100 Stockings forvaricose veins, knitted or
crocheted, insynthetic textile fibres 24,744 413
621010010 Garments made upofproducts under Nos. 5602
or5603 insilkorsilkwaste 0 0
621010020 Garments made upofproducts under Nos. 5602
or5603 insynthetic textile fibres 0 0
621010090 Garments made upofproducts under Nos. 56.02
or56.03 inother textile materials 0 0
TOTAL offinalimports inthisfirstlist 21,681,997 7,349,194
TOTAL offinalimports 120,861,012 42,384,092
Percentage offinalimports inthefirstlist
compared tototalfinalimports 17.94 17.34