G/SG/Q2/JOR/6  
 
3 August 2016  
(16-4163)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Safeguards  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.1(A) OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS  
ON INITIATION OF AN INVESTIGATION AND THE REASONS FOR IT 
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.4 OF THE AGREEMENT ON 
SAFEGUARDS BEFORE TAKING A PROVISIONAL SAFEGUARD 
MEASURE REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 6 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.1(B) OF THE AGREEMENT ON 
SAFEGUARDS ON FINDING A SERIOUS INJURY OR THREAT 
THEREOF CAUSED BY INCREASED IMPORTS 
 
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
QUESTIONS POSED BY THE UN ITED STATES REGARDING 
THE NOTIFICATIONS OF JORDAN1 
(Aluminium Bars, Rods and Profiles) 
The following communication, dated 2 August 2016, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United States. 
 
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The United States thanks Jordan for its notification regarding the safeguards investigation on imports of aluminium bars, rods and profiles, and poses the following questions: 
 
Question 1  
Jordan made its notifications of both the initiation of this investigation and finding of serious injury 
on 22 July 2016, with the actual date of initiation of the investigation being 24 July 2016. In other 
words, Jordan was notifying a determination of serious injury and a proposed safeguard measure 
before the investigation was actually initiated. Given this, it does not appear that the Jordanian 
competent authorities had sufficient time to gather information from interested parties, analyze 
and assess relevant information, make a determination based on the information, and place in the administrative record "clear evidence," as required under Article 6 of the Agreement on Safeguards 
("Agreement"), that increased imports have caused or are threatening to cause serious injury, and 
then draft a legal determination and identify provisional measures. Please explain how this action and any analysis that the Jordanian competent authorities undertook in making the determination 
to impose provisional measures is consistent with Article 6 of the Agreement. Also please identify 
the evidence on which the Jordan competent au thorities relied, and explain why the competent 
authorities concluded that it was "clear evidence" that imports have caused or are threatening to cause serious injury for purposes of Article 6 of the Agreement. 
 
                                               
1 G/SG/N/6/JOR/18 (dated 25 July 2016) and G/SG/N/7/JOR/2-G/SG/N/8/JOR/10-G/SG/N/11/JOR/6 
(dated 28 July 2016). G/SG/Q2/JOR/6 
 
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  Question 2  
 Related to question 1, please explain whether th e Jordanian competent authorities plan to issue 
questionnaires to interested parties to gather the relevant information needed to conduct the 
serious injury, threat of serious injury, level of imports, and causation analyses requirement under 
the WTO Agreement on Safeguards.    
Question 3 
 If the Jordanian competent authorities are not gathering the relevant information from interested parties – including foreign manufacturers, exporters, importers, and the domestic industry – 
please identify what sources of information they will use in making their determination.  
  
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