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WORLD TRADE G/TMB/N/120
17August 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-2435)
Textiles Monitoring Body Original: English
AGREEMENT ONTEXTILES AND CLOTHING
Notification under Article 2.2
Korea
TheTextiles Monitoring Body hasreceived anotification fromKorea ofobservations pursuant
toparagraph 2ofArticle 2.
TheTMB iscirculating thisnotification toWTO Members fortheirinformation, pursuant to
paragraph 2ofArticle 2.G/TMB/N/120
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Permanent Mission oftheRepublic ofKorea
Geneva
30June1995
Dear Mr.Szepesi,
WithreferencetoArticle2,paragraph2oftheAgreementonTextilesandClothing,Iampleased
toconvey toyouKorea 'sobservations regarding thenotifications bytheUnited States, theEuropean
Union andCanada.
Ialsohavethehonour torequest thattheabove observations becirculated tothemembers
oftheTextiles Monitoring Body.
Sincerely yours,
(signed) Jaegil LEE
Counsellor
Encl: asstated
Mr.András Szepesi
Chairman
Textiles Monitoring Body
World Trade Organization
Centre William Rappard
154,ruedeLausanne
1211 Geneva 21G/TMB/N/120
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Korea 'sObservations ontheNotifications bytheUS,Canada andtheEU
Pursuant totheWTO/ATC Article 2.1
Regarding thenotifications oftheUS,Canada andtheEUtotheWTO pursuant toArticle 2.1
oftheWTO Agreement onTextiles andClothing (ATC), theKorean Government would liketobring
thefollowing totheattention oftheTextiles Monitoring Body (TMB).
Firstly, theUSnotified theexisting limits ofcombined useofcarryover andcarry forward
totheTMB. Canada notified theexisting limits ofmixed flexibility ofswing, carryover andcarry
forward totheTMB. Itis,however, unclear whether notifications bythetwocountries were made
justtoinform theexisting above saidsystems ortocontinue maintaining them which areinconsistent
withtheWTO/ATC Art.2.16. Therefore, itisourhopethattheUSandCanada make itclear that
theydonotintend tolimitthecombined useofswing, carryover andcarry forward.
Secondly, asshown inthefollowing chart, there existdiscrepancies between thenotifications
oftheUS,Canada andtheEUandtheexisting bilateral agreements between Korea andthethree
respective countries. TheKorean Government therefore hopes thatthesediscrepancies willbeclarified.
enclosure: table1G/TMB/N/120
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‹Table 1›
Cat.(Item) Discrepancies
Item Existing Notification
US 201
333/4/5
(335)
338/9
340
(340-D)
341
347/8
353/4/653/4SWING (%)
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Canada 6(cat.6.0) CO/CF 6%(3%) 8%(5%)
EU 22
86(B)(94quantity)
annual increase13,774
6%17,774
8%