G/SG/N/10/UKR/10/Suppl.1  
G/SG/N/11/UKR/8/Suppl.1  
 
27 April 2021 
(21-3547) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Safeguards  
  Original: English  
 
  
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  
fresh cut roses  
Supplement  
The following communication, dated and received  on 26 April 2021, is being circulated at the request 
of the Delegation of Ukraine.  
 
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Pursuant to Article 12.1(b) of the Agreement on Safeguards, Ukraine notified the finding of a serious 
injury or threat thereof to the domestic industry producing fresh cut roses and on proposed 
safeguard measures ( G/SG/N/8/UKR/10  - G/SG/N/10/UKR/10  - G/SG/N/11/UKR/8) . 
 
On 22 May 2020 the Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade (hereinafter referred as 
the Commission) took the decision "On initiation and conduction of safeguard investigation on 
imports to Ukraine of fresh cut roses regardless of country of ori gin and export"  
No. SP – 449/2020/4411 -03 (G/SG/N/6/UKR/18). On 28 May 2020 the abovementioned decision 
was published in the official newspaper "Uryadovyi Courier" No. 100.  
 
On 16 April 2021 the Commission took the decision "On application of safeguard me asures on 
imports to Ukraine of fresh cut roses regardless of country of origin and export"  
No. SP – 487/202 1/4411 -03. Notice of the  decision was published in the official newspaper 
"Uryadovyi Courier" No. 76 of 21 April 2021.  
 
1. Provide precise descriptio n of the product involved  
 
Fresh roses  that can be classified under UKTZED code 0603 11 00.  
 
2. Provide precise description of the proposed measure  
 
Safeguard duty of 56%.  
 
3. Provide proposed date of introduction of the measure  
 
May 2021.  
 
The measures come into force 30 days after the date of publication of the notice of the decision on 
application of safeguard measures . 
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  4. Provide expected duration of the measure  
 
Safeguard measures are imposed 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 should be decreased by 20 % annually during measures validity.  
1st year (from the date of application)  – 56%;  
2nd year (12 months from the date of application ) – 44,80 %; 
3rd year (24 months from the date of application ) – 35,84 %. 
 
6. To provide information relating to the extension of a safeguard measure  
 
Not applicable.  
 
7. Exclusion of certain countries from the scope of the defin itive measures  
 
According to the Article 9.1 of the Agreements on Safeguards (List of the Least Developed Countries 
of the United Nations), Free Trade Agreement between the EFTA States and Ukraine dated 
24 June 2010, Free Trade Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of 
Montenegro dated 18  November 2011, Free Trade Agreement of the Commonwealth of Independent 
States, dated 18  October 2011 and taking into account Chapter 8 of the Article XXIV of the General 
Agreement on Tariffs a nd Trade 1994 imports of goods described in paragraph 3 of this notification 
into Ukraine originating from the following countries should be excluded from the application of the 
definitive measures: the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstei n, the Kingdom of 
Norway, the Swiss Confederation, the Republic of Montenegro, the Republic of Azerbaijan,  the 
Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, 
the Republic of Moldova,  the Republic of Uz bekistan, 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 Kingdom of Bhutan, the Republic of Burkina Faso, the Republic of Burundi, 
the K ingdom 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 Eritrea, the 
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the Islamic Republic of Gam bia, 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, the Republic of Liberia, the Republic of Madagascar, the Republic 
of Malawi, the Repu blic 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 Republic of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, t he 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 Timor -Leste, the Republic of 
Togo, Tuvalu, the Republic of Uganda, th e United Republic of Tanzania,  Vanuatu, the Republic of 
Yemen, the Republic of Zambia.  
 
8. Publicly available document containing the relevant decision made by the competent 
authority is attached, in an electronic form, and can be found by the following link:  
 
https://ukurier.gov.ua/uk/articles/specialni -zahodi -shodo -importu -v-ukrayinu -zrizanih/  
 
 
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