G/SG/N/6/EGY/15  
23 April 2020 
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Committee on Safeguards  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION UNDER A RTICLE 12.1(A) OF TH E AGREEMENT ON  
SAFEGUARDS ON INITIA TION OF AN INVESTIGA TION AND  
THE REASONS FOR IT  
EGYPT 
Raw Aluminium (Ingots, Billets &  Wire Rod ) 
The following communication, dated 22 April 2020 , is being ci rculated at the request of the 
Delegation of Egypt.  
 
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The Arab Republic of Egypt hereby wishes to notify the Committee on Safeguards pursuant to 
Article  12.1(a) of the Agreement on Safeguards of the initiation of a safeguard investigation on the 
imports of Raw Aluminium (Ingots, Billets &Wire Rod).  
1  SPECIFY THE DATE WHEN THE INVESTIGATION WAS INITIATED  
The investigation was initiated further to a decision of the Minister of Trade a nd Industry, the notice 
of initiation published in the official gazette number 90 (supplementary -B) dated 16  April 2020.  
2  SPECIFY THE PRODUCT SUBJECT TO INVESTIGATION  
The products subject to this investigation are Raw Aluminium (Ingots, Billets &Wire Rod) ( the 
products concerned). The products are classified under the following H.S. tariff item numbers 
760110, 760120 and 760511 within the Egyptian Customs Tariff Schedule. The H.S. tariff item 
numbers are given for information purposes only.  
3  PROVIDE THE REASO NS FOR THE INITIATION OF THE INVESTIGATION  
The investigation was initiated after examination of a properly documented safeguards application 
filed by the Egyptian industry, in which it alleged that increased imports of the subject products 
caused serious injury to the domestic industry producing similar products.  
The data currently available also shows that there have been sudden, recent, significant and sharp 
increases in imports. The data currently available also shows that the increased imports of the 
subject products caused decreasing of sales, declining of market share, huge increasing of 
inventories, decreasing of production and capacity utilization, decreasing of employment and steep 
declining of profits for the domestic industry, in conjunct ion with the increase of imports.  
Accordingly, it was established that there was sufficient evidence in the application to justify the 
initiation of the investigation in order to determine whether or not the increase of imports caused 
serious injury to the  domestic industry.  
In case of critical circumstances, where delay would cause damage which it would be difficult to 
repair, provisional measures may be imposed pursuant to Article 6 of the Safeguards Agreement.  G/SG/N/6/EGY/15  
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  4  FURTHER INFORMATION  
Interested parties must make themselves known to the investigating authority within a period of 30 
days after the initiation of the investigation.  
Any information which the interested parties may wish to submit in writing and any request for a 
hearing before the investigating aut hority that they may wish to put forward should be submitted 
within 30  days following the initiation of this investigation.  
The address of the competent authority for correspondence is:  
Ministry of Trade and Industry  
Trade Remedies Sector  
Mr Ibrahim El Seg iny 
El Maleya Towers – Tower No.  6 – 9th floor 
Extension of Ramses St. – Naser City – Cairo 
Tel: (202) 23422479  
Fax: (202) 23420784  
Email: itpd@tas.gov.eg  
Website: www.tas.gov.eg  
 
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