WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SG/N/10/IND/7
15 March 2002
(02-1362)
Committee on Safeguards Original:  English
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 12.1(C)
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS
INDIA
The following communication, dated 8 March 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of India.
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Please refer to India's notification under Article 12.1(b) of the Agreement on Safeguards (No.
SG/INV/1/2000 dated 7 November 2000) containing the final findings of the Director General
(Safeguards) regarding the safeguard investigation concerning imports of Gamma Ferric Oxide(GFO)/Magnetic Iron Oxide (MIO) into India.  This notification was circulated as a WTO document
bearing No. G/SG/N/8/IND/9 dated 8 December 2000.
I now forward herewith the Government of India Notification No. 6//2001-CUSTOMS dated
24 January 2001 containing the Government decision on the imposition of safeguard duty on this item
based on the aforementioned review proceedings.
It is requested that this notification under Article 12.1(c) of the Agreement on Safeguards may
please be brought to the notice of the Members.G/SG/N/10/IND/7
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TO BE PUBLISHED IN PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)
OF THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY
DATED 24 JANUARY 2001
4 MAGHA 1922 (SAKA)
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
New Delhi, dated 24 January 2001
4 Magha 1922 (Saka)
NOTIFICATION
No. 6//2001-CUSTOMS
1. G.S.B.68 (II) - WHEREAS in the matter of Gamma Ferric Oxide, falling under sub-heading
No. 2821.10 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), the Director-General
(Safeguards), vide his final findings, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
Section 3, Sub-Section (i), dated 20 December 2000 has come to the conclusion that increased imports
of Gamma Ferric Oxide into India have caused and threatened to cause further injury to the domesticproducers of Gamma Ferric Oxide and it will be in the public interest to impose a safeguard duty for a
period of two and a half years on imports of Gamma Ferric Oxide into India.
Now therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 8B of the
Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), read with rules 12 and 14 of the Customs Tariff (Identificationand Assessment of Safeguard Duty) Rules, 1997, the Central Government after considering the said
findings of the Direct General (Safeguards), hereby imposes on Gamma Ferric Oxide, falling under
sub-heading No. 2821.10 of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act, when imported into
India, a safeguard duty at the rate of -
(1) 23 per cent ad valorem , if imported up to and inclusive of 23 January 2002;
(2) 20 per cent ad valorem , if imported on or after 24 January 2002 but not later than
23 January 2003;  and
(3) 15 per cent ad valorem , if imported on or after 24 January 2003 but not later than
23 July 2003.
2. Nothing contained in this notification shall apply to imports of Gamma Ferric Oxide made -
(a) under an Advance Licence, subject to the condition that the said Gamma Ferric Oxide
shall not be disposed of or utilized in any manner except for utilization in discharge
of export obligation, or for replenishment of article so utilized and the article so
replenished shall not be sold or transferred to any other person:
(b) from countries notified as developing countries under clause (a) of sub-section (6) of
section 8B of the said Customs Tariff Act.
Explanation  - in this notification "Advance Licence" means -
(i) Quantity Based Advance Licence issued in terms of paragraph 50 of the Export and
Import Policy 1 April 1992-31 March 1997 published vide public notice of the
Government of India in the Ministry  of Commerce No. 1-ITC(PN)/92-97, datedG/SG/N/10/IND/7
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31 March 1997, as amended from time to time, and endorsed with non-transferable
and actual new conditions or
(ii) Quantity Based Advance Licence issued in terms of paragraph 7.4 of the Export and
Import policy 1 April 1997-31 March 2002 published vide notification of theGovernment of India in the Ministry  of Commerce No. 1/1997-2002, dated 31 March
1997, as amended from time to time;  or
(iii) Annual Advance Licence issued in terms of paragraph 7.4A of the Export and Import
Policy 1 April 1997-31 March 2002 published vide notification of the Government of
India in the Ministry of Commerce No. 1/1997-2002, dated 31 March 1997, as
amended from time to time.
F.No.345/26/2000-TRU
(G.D.I. OHANI)
UNDER SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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