./.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SG/N/7/SVN/1
26 November 1998
(98-4751)
Committee on Safeguards Original:  English
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.4 OF THE AGREEMENT ON
SAFEGUARDS BEFORE TAKING A PROVISIONAL SAFEGUARDS
MEASURE REFERRED TO IN ATICLE 6
SLOVENIA
The following communication, dated 20 November 1998, has been received from the
Permanent Mission of Slovenia.
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Pursuant to Article 12.4 of the WTO Agreement on Safeguards, and in the light of the format
for notifications under the Agreement on Safeguards adopted by the Committee on Safeguards
(G/SG/1), the Republic of Slovenia notifies that its competent authorities will introduce a provisionalsafeguard measure, as follows:
1. Specify the product subject to the proposed provisional safeguard measure
The provisional safeguard measure will apply to tariff No. 0203 - Meat of swine, fresh,
chilled or frozen.
2. Specify the provisional safeguard measure
The provisional safeguard measure will be applied in the form of tariff increases by the
introduction of the additional import duty as follows:
Tariff No.
   0203 Meat of swine, fresh chilled or frozen: SIT/kg*
Fresh or chilled:
0203.11 Carcasses and half-carcasses   68.00
0203.12 -  Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in   98.000203.19 -  Other 110.00
0203.21 -  Carcasses and half-carcasses   68.00
0203.22 -  Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in   98.00
0203.29 -  Other 100.00
* 1 ECU = SIT 187.6697.
3. Specify the proposed date of introduction of the provisional safeguard measure
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4. Specify the expected duration of the provisional safeguard measure, if any decision on the
duration of the measure has been made
Duration of the provisional safeguard measure shall not exceed 200 days and shall be
eliminated as soon as the circumstances allow its elimination.
5 Provide the basis for:
(i) Making a preliminary determination, as provided for in Article 6, that increased
imports have caused or are threatening to cause serious injury
A significant import increase has already been seen in August 1998 when the imports
increased by 6.6 per cent compared to imports in August 1997.  In September and October the imports
increased even further and reached 18 per cent in September and 25 per cent in October when
compared to imports of the same months in 1997.
From August to September 1998, the import of swine meat increased by 49 per cent and
continued to increase by an additional 17 per cent in October.
Month/year 1997 (tonnes) 1998 (tonnes)
August 1,856 1,978
September 2,493 2,950
October 2,761 3,443
The trend of import increase can also be observed in November 1998.  Increased imports of
swine meat have already caused serious injury to domestic breeders due to a heavy decrease in
domestic swine purchase and thus putting pressure on domestic purchase prices.  Domestic producers
are suffering damage because of revenue loss.  Continuation of this import trend would cause even
greater damage for swine breeders.
(ii) Determining that there are critical circumstances where delay would cause damage
which would be difficult to repair
From the above, it is clearly evident that the additional imports of swine meat to the
Slovenian market would cause additional damage in the form of decreased demand for domestic
swine meat.  This would happen due to the redirect ion of purchasing decisions of domestic buyers of
swine meat and consequently lead to destruct ion of an important branch of swine breeding.
The situation is so critical that it calls for immediate introduction of protective measures.  The
measures must be introduced immediately in order to prevent even greater damage that would be
difficult to repair.
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