WORLD TRADE G/TMB/R/24
28February 1997
ORGANIZATION(97-0852)
Textiles Monitoring Body
REPORT OFTHE TWENTY-FIFTH MEETING
1. TheTextiles Monitoring Body helditstwenty-fifth meeting on3and4February 1997.
2. Mrs. Berrig appointed Mr. Arnupab Tadpitakkul (Thailand) asher alternate.
Mrs. Usha Chandnee Dwarka-Canabady (Mauritius) wasappointed asthenon-participating observer
from Africa.
3. Present atthismeeting werethefollowing members and/or alternates/second alternates, and
observer: Mr.DaCosta eSilva; Mrs. Dwarka-Canabady; Messrs. Lam; Mukerji/Ms. Shahin;
Messrs. Rey/Urkan; Richards; Saeki/Ito; Saint-Jacques; Tadpitakkul; Tagliani; andTong.
4. TheTMB adopted thereport ofitstwenty-fourth meeting (G/TMB/R/23).
Notification under Article 2.1oftheAgreement onTextiles andClothing (ATC)
5. TheTMB tooknoteofanaddition made byCanada, following Bulgaria ’saccession totheWTO,
toitsnotification under paragraph 1ofArticle 2(G/TMB/N/62/Add.2). Thisnotification wasmade
inaccordance withtherelevant provisions included intheReport oftheWorking Party ontheAccession
ofBulgaria totheWTO, according towhich “...the quantitative restrictions maintained byWTO
Members onimports oftextiles andclothing products originating inBulgaria thatareinforce onthe
datepriortothedateoftheaccession ofBulgaria totheWTO shallbenotified totheTextiles Monitoring
Body (TMB) asbeing thebaselevels forthepurpose ofapplication ofArticles 2and3oftheWTO
Agreement onTextiles andClothing. [...]Tothese baselevels theincrease ingrowth ratesprovided
forinArticles 2.13and2.14oftheAgreement onTextiles andClothing shallbeapplied, asappropriate,
from thedateofaccession ofBulgaria totheWTO ”(WT/ACC/BGR/5, paragraph 48).
Notifications under Articles 2.8(a) and2.11oftheATC
6. Inaddition tothereview ithadstarted atitsprevious meeting (G/TMB/R/23, paragraph 6),
theTMB alsobegan itsreview under paragraph 21ofArticle 2oftheprogrammes ofintegration notified
pursuant toparagraphs 8(a)and11ofArticle 2byseveral other Members, and,seeking further
information andclarification fromsome ofthem, decided torevert toitsreview atasubsequent meeting.
Inthemeantime, pursuant toparagraph 11ofArticle 2,theTMB iscirculating these additional
notifications toWTO Members.
Notifications under Article 2.17oftheATC
7. TheTMB continued itsreview ofseveral administrative arrangements notified bythe
European Community pursuant toparagraph 17ofArticle 2anddecided torevert tothisreview at
asubsequent meeting.
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Notification under Articles 3.1oftheATC
8. TheTMB considered anadditional notification made under paragraph 1ofArticle 3bythe
European Community, following Bulgaria ’saccession totheWTO.1According tothisnotification,
quantitative limits weremaintained bytheEuropean Community vis-à-vis Bulgaria. These quantitative
limits hadbeen negotiated intheAdditional Protocol totheEurope Agreement between the
European Community andBulgaria, which hadbeennotified totheGATT/WTO under Article XXIV.
This Additional Protocol provided fortheelimination oftherestrictions contained therein on
1January 1998 atthelatest. TheTMB tooknoteofthisnotification (G/TMB/N/64/Add.1).
Communication byBrazil
9. TheTMB tooknoteofacommunication byBrazil thatithaddecided, witheffect asfrom
6January 1997, torescind thetransitional safeguard itapplied toimports oftextile products from
Hong Kong classified incategory 838.2
Schedule ofTMB meetings for1977
10. Inviewofchanges inthecalendar ofmeetings ofother WTO Bodies, theTMB decided to
amend itstentative schedule ofmeetings for1997. Themeeting previously scheduled for27and
28February 1997 wasrescheduled to24to26February 1997.
1Seealsoparagraph 5.
2FortheTMB'srecommendation withrespect tothistransitional safeguard measure, seeG/TMB/R/20,
paragraph 34.