WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TMB/N/235/Corr.1
30 January 1998
(98-0319)
Textiles Monitoring Body Original:  English
AGREEMENT ON TEXTILES AND CLOTHING
Notification under Articles 2.8(a) and 2.11
KOREA
Corrigendum
The Textiles Monitoring Body has received a further notification from Korea containing
corrections to the notification made pursuant to paragraphs 8(a) and 11 of Article 2.
The TMB, in accordance with paragraph 11 of Article 2, is circulating this notification to
WTO Members.G/TMB/N/235/Corr.1
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Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea
Geneva
23 December 1997
Mr. András Szepesi
ChairmanTextiles Monitoring Body
World Trade Organization
Centre William Rappard
Rue de Lausanne, 154
1211 Geneva 21
Dear Sir,
Referring to your letter of 10 October 1997, and upon the instruction of my Government, I
have the honour to notify the following:
As we have already notified, the Second Integration Programme submitted by the Republic of
Korea contains 12 HS 6-digit lines in Chapters 30 to 49 and 64 to 96.  Four lines (HS 420212,
420222, 420232, 420292) of the 12 lines can be subclassified further than the 6-digit level, and Korea
reaffirms that there are no non-ATC products among them.
In the cases of HS 961210, 940490, 640520, the Republic of Korea does not find that these
three HS lines include any products outside the definition scope of the Annex to the ATC either.
With respect to the HS 640699, however, it can be subclassified further than the 6-digit level,
and we find that 1,528,567 kg among total imports of 1990 in that HS line (1,529,368 kg) do not
correspond to the products falling under the coverage of the ATC.
Furthermore, in four HS lines (HS 392112, 392113, 392190, 640610), it is not possible to
make a distinction between the products covered by the ATC and those not covered.
Therefore, the Government of the Republic of Korea has decided to withdraw these four lines
from the second stage of integration and to include 14 other tariff lines into the second stage, as
indicated in the attached Annex 1 and Annex II.
The amount of revised second stage integration is 75,272,711 kg, accounting for
17.01 per cent of Korea's 1990 imports of the products contained in the Annex to the ATC.
If the non-textile imports of HS 640699 (1,528,567 kg) are subtracted from the volume of
total imports in 1990 of ATC products, the revised figure for the volume of total imports in 1990 of
ATC products would be 440,988,468 kg instead of 442,517,836 kg and the calculated rate of
integration under the second stage would be 17.07 per cent as seen in Annex III.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Joun Yung Sun
Ambassador
Permanent RepresentativeG/TMB/N/235/Corr.1
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ANNEX I:  List of Textile and Clothing Products to be Excluded from Stage 2
HS Code Description 1990 volume (kg)
3921.12 Cellular;  of polymers of vinyl chloride 35,032
3921.13 Cellular;  of polyurethanes 407,795
3921.90 Other 9,876,971
6406.10 Uppers and parts thereof, other than stiffeners 175,457
TOTAL 10,495,255G/TMB/N/235/Corr.1
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ANNEX II:  List of Textile and Clothing Products to be Integrated into Stage 2
HS Code Description 1990 volume (kg)
5501.30 Acrylic or modacrylic 1,294,605
6213.90 Handkerchief;  of other textile materials 829
5809.00 Woven fabrics of metal thread and woven fabrics of metallized
yarn of heading No. 56.05, of a kind used in apparel, as
furnishing fabrics or for similar purposes, not elsewhere specified
or included3,861
5113.00 Woven fabrics of coarse animal hair or of horse hair 11,473
5408.24 Woven fabrics of artificial filament yarn;  printed 13,856
5911.20 Bolting cloth, whether or not made up 23,353
5516.93 Of yarns of different colours 27,385
5804.10 Tulles and other net fabrics 32,145
6001.99 Of other textile materials 36,979
5407.44 Other woven fabrics;  printed 42,747
6303.99 Of other textile materials 50,212
5516.32 Dyed 91,618
5210.39 Other fabrics 158,469
5502.00 Artificial filament tow 10,015,906
TOTAL 11,803,438G/TMB/N/235/Corr.1
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ANNEX III:  Statistical Information
(Unit:  kg)
Classification Volume %
Total imports in 1990 442,517,836 100.00
The notified second stage 75,493,095 17.06
Non-textile in HS 640699 1,528,567 (-) 0.35
Annex I 10,495,255 (-) 2.37
Annex II 11,803,438 (+) 2.67
The revised second stage 75,272,711 17.01
(Unit:  kg)
Classification Volume %
Total imports in 1990 excluding
non-textile in HS 640699440,988,468 100.00
The revised second stage75,272,711 17.07
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