G/SG/N/7/THA/3/Suppl.1  
G/SG/N/11/THA/3/Suppl.1  
 
25 September 2014  
(14-5372)  Page: 1/5  
Committee on Safeguards  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICL E 12.4 OF THE AGREEMENT 
ON SAFEGUARDS BEFORE TAKING A PROVISIONAL 
SAFEGUARD MEASURE REFERRED 
TO IN ARTICLE 6 
 
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 9, 
FOOTNOTE 2 OF THE AGREEMENT 
ON SAFEGUARDS 
THAILAND  
(Non Alloy Hot Rolled Steel Flat Products in Coils and Not in Coils) 
Supplement 
The following communication,  dated 23 September 2014, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Thailand. 
 
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1  TAKING A DECISION TO APPLY A SAFEGUARD MEASURE 
Further to the notification contained in the WTO document G/SG/N/7/THA/3-G/SG/N/11/THA/3 
circulated on 28 May 2014, Thailand hereby wishes to notify that the Notification of the Committee 
on Safeguard Measures of Thailand  on the Imposition of Provisional Safeguard Measures Against 
Increased Imports of Non Alloy Hot Rolled Steel Flat Products in Coils and Not in Coils B.E. 2557 (2014) dated 26 May 2014 (the "Committee Notification") was promulgated in the Royal Gazette 
dated 6 June 2014. This measure takes the fo rm of a provisional safeguard duty at the ad valorem  
rate of 34.01% of CIF price with the exemption under the conditions as follows:   
1. Imports of the products concerned classified as special grade steels and imports of the 
products concerned used for the Spiral Pipe production specified in Annex II and Annex III of the Committee Notification respectively.  
2. Imports of the products concerned with the exclusion of the ones falling under the Thai 
Customs Tariff Codes at subheadings: 7208.36.00.090, 7208.37.00.090, 7208.38.00.090, 7208.39.00.090, 7208.51.00.090, 7208.52.00.090, 7208.53.00.090, 7208.54.00.090 that are 
offered as "imports for export, i.e., the imported products that are intended to be manufactured, 
further processed or incorporated into a finished pr oduct that will be export ed from the Kingdom of 
Thailand, in case of the followings: 
 
a. Entrepreneurs and business operators importing the products concerned into the 
Kingdom of Thailand and taking them into Export Processing Zone for production or trade offering of export products under the In dustrial Estate Authority of Thailand Act; 
or, 
b. Promoted investors by the Board of Investment (BOI) importing the products concerned 
for manufacturing export products under the Investment Promotion Act; or, G/SG/N/7/THA/3/Suppl.1 • G/SG/N/11/THA/3/Suppl.1 
 
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  c. Importers of the products concerned for export under the Customs Act. 
The provisional safeguard measure, by virtue of  the above-mentioned Committee Notification, has 
entered into force on 7 June 2014, and will remain in force for a period not exceeding two hundred (200) days. 
 
2  NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2 
As noted in G/SG/N/7/THA/3-G/SG/N/11/THA/3, Thailand notified Members about the initial action 
under footnote 2 to Article 9.1 of the Agreement on  Safeguards by providing the list of developing 
countries and separate customs territories excluded from the imposition of provisional safeguard measures.  
The Committee on Safeguard Measures of Thailand an alyzed the volume of imports of the products 
concerned from various countries for
 January to April 2014 based on the official trade statistics 
from Thai Customs Department. The review indicated that the import share of the products 
concerned originating in or exported from Brazil already accounted for 18.14% of total Thai 
imports of the products concerned for the period of January to April 2014.  
Pursuant to Article 9.1 footnote 2 of the Agr eement on Safeguards and Article 32 of the Thai 
Safeguard Measures on Increased Imports Act B.E. 2550 (2007), Brazil was dropped from the list of developing countries exempted from the imposi tion of provisional safeguard measures, effective 
as from 3 September 2014. In this respect, the Annex I to the Committee Notification dated 
26 May 2014 shall be revoked and superseded by the Annex I to the Committee Notification 
(No. 2) dated 5 August 2014 which was promulgated in the Royal Gazette dated 2 September 2014 and has entered into force on 3 September 2014. A list of developing countries 
to which the provisional safeguard measures does no t apply, other than Brazil, is attached to this 
notification.  
The Notification of the Committee on Safeguar ds of Thailand and its amendment can be 
downloaded at the official website of the Division of Trade Interests and Remedies, Department of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce of Thailand (http://btir.dft.go.th). G/SG/N/7/THA/3/Suppl.1 • G/SG/N/11/THA/3/Suppl.1 
 
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  ANNEX  
LIST OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND SEPARATE  CUSTOMS TERRITORIES EXCLUDED FROM THE 
IMPOSITION OF PROVISIONAL SAFEGUARD MEASURE ON NON ALLOY HOT ROLLED 
STEEL FLAT PRODUCTS IN COILS AND NOT IN COILS 
No. COUNTRY No. COUNTRY 
1. 
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 
10. 11. 12. 13. 
14. 
15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 
29. 
30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 
 Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Angola  
Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain 
Bangladesh 
Barbados Belarus Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia (Plurinational State of)  Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia 
Cameroon 
Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia 
 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 
50. 
51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 
65. 
66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 
 Comoros Congo Cook Islands Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Curacao Democratic People's Republic of Korea Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic 
Ecuador 
Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Fiji French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Georgia Ghana Grenada Guam 
Guatemala 
Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China Indonesia G/SG/N/7/THA/3/Suppl.1 • G/SG/N/11/THA/3/Suppl.1 
 
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  No. COUNTRY No. COUNTRY 
73. 
74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 
89. 
90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 
100. 101. 102. 103. 
104. 
105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. Iraq 
Iran (Islamic Republic of) Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan  Lao People's Democratic Republic Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Macao, Special Administrative Region of China Madagascar 
Malawi 
Malaysia Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia (Federated States of) Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar 
Namibia 
Nauru Nepal New Caledonia Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Northern Mariana Islands 
 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 
129. 
130. 131. 132. 133. 134. 135. 136. 137. 138. 139. 140. 141. 142. 143. 
144. 
145. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151. 152. Oman 
Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Qatar Republic of Moldova Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa 
Sao Tome and Principe 
Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten (Dutch part) Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sri Lanka State of Palestine Sudan 
Suriname 
Swaziland Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan The former Yugoslav Re public of Macedonia 
Timor-Leste Togo Tokelau  Tonga 
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  No. COUNTRY No. COUNTRY 
153. 
154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. Trinidad and Tobago 
Tunisia Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Republic of Tanzania Uruguay 163. 
164. 165. 166. 167. 168. 169. 170. 171. 
 Uzbekistan 
Vanuatu Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Viet Nam Wallis and Futuna Islands Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe 
 
 
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