G/SG/N/8/UKR/11/Suppl.1  
G/SG/N/10/UKR/11/Suppl.1  
G/SG/N/11/UKR/9/Suppl.1  
 
20 September  2021 
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Committee on Safeguards  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.1(B) OF THE AGREEMENT ON  
SAFEGUARDS ON FINDING A SERIOUS INJURY OR THREAT  
THEREOF CAUSED BY INCREASED IMPORTS  
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.1(С)  
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS  
UPON TAKING A DECISION TO APPLY A SAFEGUARD MEASURE  
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2  
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS  
UKRAINE  
Wires  
Supplement  
The following communication, dated  and received on 17 September  2021, is being circulated at the 
request of the delegation of Ukraine . 
 
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Pursuant to Articles 12.1(b) of the Agreement on Safeguards, Ukraine notified the finding of a serious 
injury or threat thereof to the domestic industry producing wires and on proposed safeguard 
measures (G/SG/N/8/UKR/11 -G/SG/N/10/UKR/11 -G/SG/N/11/UKR/9 of 31 March 2021).  
On 24 July 2020 the Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade (hereinafter referred as 
the Commission) took the decision "On initiation and conduction of safe guard investigation on 
imports to Ukraine of wires regardless of country of origin and export" No. SP -458/2020/4411 -03 
(G/SG/N/6/UKR/19 of 09 September 2020, G/SG/N/6/UKR/19/Corr.1 of 21 September 2020).  
On 23 April 2021 the Commission took the d ecision "On application of safeguard measures on 
imports to Ukraine of wires regardless of  country of origin and export " No SP–491/2021/4411 -03. 
Notice of the decision was published in the official newspaper "Uryadovyi Courier " No 176 of 
14 September 2021 . 
1. Provide p recise description of the product involved  
Insulated wires, cables and other insulated electric conductors not fitted with connectors; optical 
fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres which can be classified under UKTZED codes  
8544 49 20 00, 8 544 49 91 00, 8544 60 10 10, 8544 60 10 98, 8544 60 90 10, 8544 60 90 90, 
8544 70 00 10, 8544 70 00 90.  
2. Provide precise description of the proposed measure  
Safeguard duty of 23.5 %.  G/SG/N/8/UKR/11/Suppl.1 • G/SG/N/10/UKR/11/Suppl.1 • G/SG/N/11/UKR/9/Suppl.1  
 
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  3. Provide proposed date of introduction of the measure  
30 days after noti ce publication .  
4. Provide expected duration of the measure  
Safeguard measure imposes for a period of 3 years.  
5. If the expected duration is over one year, to provide expected timetable for 
progressive liberalization of the measure  
The duty level decreases  by 5 % annually during measure validity.  
1st year (from the date of application) – 23.5%;  
2nd year (12 months from the date of application) – 22.3%;  
3rd year (24 months from the date of application) – 21.2%. 
6. To provide information relating to the extension of a safeguard measure  
Not applicable .  
7. Exclusion of certain countries from the scope  of the definitive measures  
According to Article 9.1 of the Agreements on Safeguards (List of the Least Developed Countries of 
the United Nations) and Article 21 of the Law of Ukraine "On the application of special measures 
regarding imports to Ukraine", Free Trade Agreement between the EFTA States and Ukraine dated 
June 24 2010, Free Trade Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of 
Montenegro dated November 18 2011, Free Trade Agreement of the Commonwealth of Independent 
States, dat ed October 18 2011 and taking into account Chapter 8 of Article XXIV of General 
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 imports of goods described in paragraph 3 of this notification 
to Ukraine originating from the following countries should be excluded from t he application of the 
definitive measures: the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of 
Norway, the Swiss Confederation, the Republic of Montenegro, the Republic of Azerbaijan, the 
Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Kazakhst an, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of 
Moldova, the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Islamic Republic 
of Afghanistan, the Republic of Angola, the People 's Republic of Bangladesh, the Republic of Benin, 
the King dom of Bhutan, the Republic of Burkina Faso, the Republic of Burundi, the Kingdom of 
Cambodia, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Chad, the Union of the Comoros, the 
Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Djibouti, the State of Eritre a, the Federal 
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the Islamic Republic of Gambia, the Republic of Guinea, the 
Republic of Guinea -Bissau, the Republic of Haiti, the Republic of Kiribati, the Lao People 's Democratic 
Republic, the Kingdom of Lesotho, Peru, Liberia, the Republic of Madagascar, the Republic of Malawi, 
the Republic of Mali, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, the Republic of Mozambique, the Republic 
of the Union of Myanmar, the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, the Republic of Niger, the 
Republ ic of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, the Republic of Senegal, 
the Republic of Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, the Federal Republic of Somalia, the Republic of 
South Sudan, the Republic of the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Timo r-Leste, the Republic of 
Togo, Tuvalu, the Republic of Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republic of Yemen, the 
Republic of Zambia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the United Mexican States, the Republic of 
Indonesia.  
8. Publicly available do cument containing the relevant decision made by the competent 
authority can be found by the following link:  
https://ukurier.gov.ua/uk/articles/zastosuvannya -specialnih -zahodiv -shodo -importu -v-u/ 
 
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