RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE WT/DS5/5/Add.4
G/SPS/W/27/Add.4
ORGANIZATION G/TBT/D/3/Add.4
G/AG/W/8/Add.4
19July1996
(96-2847)
Original: English
KOREA -MEASURES CONCERNING THE SHELF-LIFE OFPRODUCTS
Notification ofMutually Agreed Solution
Communication from theRepublic ofKorea
Addendum
Thefollowing communication, entitled "Notification oftheCorresponding Harmonized System
Headings oftheProducts, forwhich Shelf-Life Requirements WillBeRemoved fromtheKorean Food
Code on1July1996", dated 1July1996, from thePermanent Mission oftheRepublic ofKorea, is
circulated attherequest ofthatdelegation.
_______________
Inaccordance withtheagreement regarding theshelf-life issue between theGovernment of
theRepublic ofKorea andtheGovernment oftheUnited States ofAmerica which wasnotified tothe
WTO Secretariat on26January 1996, theGovernment oftheRepublic ofKorea hereby notifies the
WTO Secretariat ofthecorresponding Harmonized System headings oftheproducts forwhich shelf-life
requirements willberemoved fromtheKorean Food Code on1July1996. Thelistofthose products
isattached hereto.WT/DS5/5/Add.4
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NOTIFICATION OFTHE CORRESPONDING HARMONIZED SYSTEM HEADINGS
OFTHE PRODUCTS FOR WHICH SHELF-LIFE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE
REMOVED FROM THE KOREAN FOOD CODE ON1JULY 1996
Products
Categories under
theFood CodeProducts HSNo. Remark
1.Confectionaries 1-1 Breads andricecakes
-Frozen 1905
4. Milk andMilk
Products4-6 Fermented milk
Products
-Frozen
4-8 Concentrated milk
-Sterilized
4-9 Milk cream
-Frozen0403
0402.9
0401.30
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Products
Categories under
theFood CodeProducts HSNo. Remark
5. Meat &
Meat Products5-1 Meat Products
(1)Sausage, mixed sausage
(a)Cooked
-Frozen
(b)Uncooked
-Frozen
(c)Sterilized
(2) Semi-dry sausage, semi-dry
mixed sausage
(3) Seasoned meat
(Marinated meat)
-Frozen
(4) Ground meat products
(a) Cooked
-Frozen
(b) Uncooked
(c) Sterilized meat
(5) Packaged meat
(a) Beef
-Frozen
(b) Pork
-Frozen
(c) Poultry meat
Miscellaneous meat
-Frozen
(d) Vacuum packed chilled
meat
-Beef
-Pork
-Lamb
(6) Frozen meat
(a) Beef
(b) Pork
(c) Lamb
(d) Poultry meat
Miscellaneous meat
5-2Eggproducts
(1) Frozen liquid
(2) Pidan1601.00
1601.00
1601.00
1601.00
1602
1602
1602
1602
0202
0203
0207,
0204,
0205,
0208
0201
0203
0204
0202
0203
0204
0205.00
0207, 0208
0407.00
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Products
Categories under
theFood CodeProducts HSNo. Remark
6.Fishery Products 6-1Fishery products
-Frozen surimi1604, 1605
0304, 0305
7.Bean Curd
Products7.2Processed bean curd (tofu)
-Freeze-dried bean curd
7-4Mook (Korean traditional Jelled
Food)
-Conjak Mook2106.10
2106.90
9.Noodles 9-1Noodles
- Frozen 1902.19
11.Beverages 11-1 Fruit &Vegetable beverages
-Frozen concentrated products
forrawmaterial
11.3 Soymilk
(1) Pasteurized (below PH4.6)
(2) Sterilized2009
2202.90
2202.90
13.Health Foods 13-6 Fermented agricultural products
containing enzyme
13-7 Products containing lactic acid
bacteria
13-19 Aloe products
(1) Liquid
(2) Solid2106.90
2106.90
2106.90
2106.90
18.Alcoholic
Beverages18-1 Takju Pasteurized
18-2 Yakju Pasteurized2206.00
2206.00
20.Miscellaneous
Foods20-8 Processed fruitandvegetable
products
-Frozen
20-9 Seasoned laver2202,
2204,
2208
2106.90
*Others Frozen foods notcovered byindividual
food categoriesThefollowing
HScodes are
included in
thisgroup:
0306, 0710,
0811, 1604,
1605, 2002,
2004, 2008