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ORGANIZATION  G/TMB/R/105 
11 February 2004 
 (04-0542) 
Textiles Monitoring Body  
   
REPORT OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH MEETING 
  
1. The Textiles Monitoring Body held its one hundred and sixth meeting on 20 January 2004. 
2. Following the decision adopted by the General Council on 20 December 2001
1 on the 
composition of the TMB for the period 1 January 20 02 to 31 December 2004, and the appointment of 
new members and alternates, the composition of the TMB at the beginning of 2004 was as follows: 
MEMBERS ALTERNATES SECOND ALTERNATES 
Mr. Clélio Nivaldo Crippa Filho 
(Brazil) Ms. Maria Morales de Mazzei 
(Guatemala) Ms. Milagros Miranda (Peru) 
Mr. Frédéric Seppey (Canada) Mr. Otto Wentzel (Norway)  
Ms. Liping Zhang (China) Mr. Mujeeb Ahmed Khan 
(Pakistan) Ms. My Yen Lu (Macao, China) 
Mr. Magdi Farahat (Egypt) Mr . Sudhakar Dalela (India)  
Mr. Benny Berg Sorensen (EC) Ms. Liana Simopoulos (EC)  
Mr. Ivan Lee (Hong Kong, China) Mr. Tae-Yong Lee (Korea) Mr. Badrul Hassan (Bangladesh) 
Mr. Alfons Samosir (Indonesia) Mr. Krisda Ekawat (Thailand)  
Mr. Hisashi Yoshikawa (Japan) Mr. Hirohisa Soma (Japan)  
Ms. Sarah Huber (Switzerland) Ms. Tatyana Petrova (Bulgaria) Mr. Şahin Yaman (Turkey) 
Mr. William Tagliani (United 
States)   
 
3. Present at this meeting were the following members and alternates:  Messrs. Crippa;  Farahat;  
Ms. Huber;  Messrs. Samosir;  Seppey;  Sorensen;  Yoshikawa;  Ms. Zhang/Ms. Lu. 
4. The TMB adopted the report of its one hundred and fifth meeting (G/TMB/R/104). 
Notification under Article 2.1 of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC)  
5. The TMB reverted to its examination of a notif ication received pursuant to Article 2.1 from 
the United States following the accession of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to the WTO.
2  The TMB observed that it had not yet received a reply from the United States regarding 
the TMB's invitation to "reconsider its position an d […] implement the full 27 per cent increase in the 
respective growth rates applicable to  Stage 3 also for the year 2003”.3  The TMB decided to remind 
                                                      
1 See WT/L/443.  
2 See G/TMB/R/100, paragraph 4, G/TMB/R/101/Rev.1, paragraph 5, G/TMB/R/102, paragraphs 5 
and 6, and G/TMB/R/103, paragraphs 4 to 18. 
3 See G/TMB/R/103, paragraph 17. G/TMB/R/105 
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the United States that the Body had “expected that  the United States would report back to it on the 
results of this re-examination as soon as possible.”
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Notification under Articles 2.8(c) and 2.11 of the ATC 
6. The TMB reviewed, under Article 2.21, the notification made pursuant to Articles 2.8(c) and 
2.11 by Japan (G/TMB/N/462).  During its review, the TMB verified that on 1 January 2005 the total 
volume of Japan’s 1990 imports of the products in the Annex to the ATC would be integrated into 
GATT 1994, which confirmed the Body’ s understanding that, in accordance with Article 2.8(c), all 
the products not yet integrated by Japan into GA TT 1994 under Articles 2.6, 2. 8(a) and 2.8(b) were 
included in the list of the products that will be integrated into GATT 1994 on 1 January 2005.  The 
TMB commended Japan for its timely notification. 
7. In the context of this review, the TMB recalled th at Article 2.8(c) states that “on the first day 
of the 121st month that the WTO Agreement is in effect, the textiles and clothing sector shall stand 
integrated into GATT 1994, all restrictions under th is Agreement having been eliminated.”  The TMB 
also recalled that Article 2.11 states that “[t]he r espective programmes of integration, in pursuance of 
paragraph 8 [of Article 2], shall be notified in de tail to the TMB at least 12 months before their 
coming into effect, and circulated by the TMB to all Members.”  It observed that, up until now, only 
Japan had provided a notification pursuant to the provisions of Articles 2.8(c) and 2.11.  The TMB decided to remind Members of the notificati on requirement contained in those provisions.
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observed in this respect that those Members that ha d notified, pursuant to Article 6.1, their intention 
not to retain the right to use the provisions of Artic le 6 were, in accordance with Article 2.9, deemed 
to have integrated their textiles and clothing produc ts into GATT 1994 and were, therefore, exempted 
from complying with the provisions of paragraphs 6 to 8 and 11 of Article 2.  It was also observed 
that, irrespective of the unambiguous commitments de fined in Article 2.8(c) and also in Article 9 
regarding the full integration on 1 January 2005 of the entire textiles and clothing sector into 
GATT 1994, compliance with the respective notifi cation requirement, in particular by Members 
maintaining restrictions under the provisions of  the ATC, would contribute to the faithful 
implementation of the ATC. 
Preparation for the TMB’s 2004 comprehensive report under Article 8.11 of the ATC 
8. In the context of the Body’s pr eparation of its comprehensive report on the implementation of 
the ATC during the third stage of the integration process (2002-2004), pursuant  to Article 8.11, the 
TMB decided to request the WTO Secretariat to  provide Members with background statistical 
information with respect to trade in textiles and cl othing, in time for the major review to be conducted 
by the Council for Trade in Goods. 
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4 Idem . 
5 See G/TMB/29.