G/SG/N/7/THA/2/Suppl.2  
G/SG/N/8/THA/2/Suppl.2  
G/SG/N/11/THA/2/Suppl.1  
 
2 August 2013  
(13-4144)  Page: 1/4  
Committee on Safeguards  Original: English  
 
 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 SERIOUS INJURY OR THREAT 
THEREOF CAUSED BY INCREASED IMPORTS 
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2, 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
THAILAND  
(Hot Rolled Steel Flat Products with Certain Amounts of Alloying Elements) 
Supplement 
The following communication, dated 30 July 2013, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Thailand. 
 
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With reference to the notifications contained in the WTO document G/SG/N/7/THA/2–
G/SG/N/8/THA/2–G/SG/N/11/THA/2 circulated on 13 February 2013 and G/SG/N/7/THA/2/Suppl.1–G/SG/N/8/THA/2/Suppl.1 circulated on 24 June 2013 concerning the 
imposition of provisional safeguard measures against increased imports of hot rolled steel flat 
products with certain amounts of alloying elements such as boron, chromium, etc., in coils and not in coils (hereinafter referred to as the “products concerned”), Thailand provides the following 
supplement No. 2 to the notification G/SG/N/7 /THA/2–G/SG/N/8/THA/2–G/SG/N/11/THA/2 to the 
Committee on Safeguards.  1  NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.1 (C) UPON TAKING A DECISION TO APPLY A 
SAFEGUARD MEASURE 
As noted in G/SG/N/7/THA/2/Suppl.1–G/SG/N/8/THA/2/Suppl.1, the Committee on Safeguard 
Measures of Thailand issued the Notification on the Imposition of Provisional Safeguard Measures 
against Increased Imports of Hot Rolled Steel Flat  Products with Certain Amounts of Alloying 
Elements such as Boron, Chromium, etc., in Coils and Not in Coils  (hereinafter referred to as 
the “Committee Notification”) on 22 February 2 013, as amended by the Committee Notification 
(No.2) B.E. 2556 (A.D. 2013) dated 31 May 2013. This provisional safeguard measure takes the 
form of an ad valorem  provisional safeguard duty of 33.11% of  C.I.F. price with the exemption of 
importers of the products concerned imported into Thailand for cold rolling process, for the automobile industry, for hardening process and as special grade steels laid down in Annex II to the 
Committee Notification from the imposition of pr ovisional safeguard duty. Besides, imports of 
certain steel products the specification of which falling under the standards and grades specified in Annex III to the Committee Notification are also exempted from the imposition of provisional 
safeguard duty. The provisional safeguard measur e has entered into force on 27 February 2013, 
and will remain in force for a period not exceeding two hundred (200) days, i.e., 15 September 2013. G/SG/N/7/THA/2/Suppl.2 • G/SG/N/8/THA /2/Suppl.2 • G/SG/N/11/THA/2/Suppl.1 
 
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  Later, the Committee Notification No.3 B.E. 2556 (A.D. 2013) dated 18 July 2013 has been 
published in the Royal Gazette on 24 July 2013 with the intention to amend the list of importers of 
the products concerned imported into Thailand for cold rolling process and for hardening process and as special grade steel; and, to add the stan dards and steel grades of the products concerned 
classified as special grade steels to be exempted from the imposition of provisional safeguard duty. 
 In this respect, the Annex II and Annex III to  the Committee Notification B.E. 2556 (A.D. 2013) 
dated 22 February 2013, as amended by the Committee Notification (No.2) B.E. 2556 (A.D.2013) 
shall be revoked and superseded by the Anne x II and Annex III to the Committee Notification 
(No.3) B.E. 2556 (A.D. 2013) dated 18 July 2013 which has entered into force on 25 July 2013.  
2  NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2 
As noted in G/SG/N/7/THA/2–G/SG/N/8/THA/2–G/ SG/N/11/THA/2, Thailand notified Members 
about the initial action under footnote 2 to Ar ticle 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 analyzed the volume of imports of the product 
concerned from various countries for January to April 2013 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 the Russian Federation already accounted for 5.47% of 
total Thai imports of the products concerned for the period of January to April 2013.   
 Pursuant to Article 9.1 footnote 2 of the Agreem ent on Safeguards and Article 32 of the Safeguard 
Measures on Increased Imports Act of Thailand B.E. 2550 (A.D. 2007), the Russian Federation was 
dropped from the list of developing countries exempted from the imposition of provisional 
safeguard measures, effective 25 July 2013. A list of developing countries to which the provisional 
safeguard measure does not apply, other than the Russian Federation, is attached to this 
notification.   The Notification of the Committee on Safeguard Measures of Thailand and its amendments with the 
unofficial translation can be downloaded at the official website of the Bureau of Trade Interests and 
Remedies, Department of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce of Thailand (http://btir.dft.go.th).  
 
 
  G/SG/N/7/THA/2/Suppl.2 • G/SG/N/8/THA /2/Suppl.2 • G/SG/N/11/THA/2/Suppl.1 
 
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  ANNEX 
 
LIST OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND SEPARATE  CUSTOMS TERRITORIES EXCLUDED FROM THE 
IMPOSITION OF PROVISIONAL SAFEGUARD MEASURES ON HOT ROLLED STEEL FLAT  
PRODUCTS WITH CERTAIN AMOUNTS OF ALLOYING ELEMENTS SUCH AS BORON,  
CHROMIUM, ETC., IN COILS AND NOT IN COILS)  
 
 
East & Southern 
Africa West Africa North Africa South Asia 
Angola 
Botswana Burundi 
Comoros 
Congo. Dem. Rep. Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mayotte Mozambique Namibia Reunion Rwanda Seychelles Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Uganda 
Zambia 
Zimbabwe Benin 
Burkina Faso Cameroon 
Cape Verde 
Central African Rep. Chad Congo, Rep. Cote d' Ivoire Gabon Gambia, The Ghana Guinea Guinea, Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Sao Tome & Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Togo   Algeria 
Egypt, Arab Rep. Libya 
Morocco 
Tunisia Afghanistan 
Bangladesh Bhutan 
British Indian Ocean Territory 
East Timor Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka                 G/SG/N/7/THA/2/Suppl.2 • G/SG/N/8/THA /2/Suppl.2 • G/SG/N/11/THA/2/Suppl.1 
 
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  Europe & Central Asia Middle East Americas Asia & Pacific 
Albania 
Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Bosnia & Herzegovina Bulgaria Georgia Kazakhstan Kosovo Kyrgyz Republic Lithuania Macedonia, FYR 
Moldova 
Montenegro Romania Serbia Tajikistan Turkey Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Yugoslavia, Fed. Rep. Iran, Islamic Rep. 
Iraq Jordan Lebanon Syrian Arab Rep. West Bank & Gaza Yemen, Rep. Anguilla  
Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica 
Dominican Rep. 
Ecuador El Salvador Falkland Is. (Malvinas) French Guiana Grenada Guadaloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Montserrat Nicaragua Norfolk Island Panama Paraguay Peru St. Helena St. Kitts & Nevis 
St. Lucia 
St. Pierre & Miquelon St. Vincent & the    Grenadines Suriname Uruguay Venezuela American Samoa 
Cambodia Chinese Taipei  Christmas Is. Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cook Is. Fiji Indonesia Johnston Islands Kiribati Korea, Dem. Rep. Lao PDR 
Malaysia 
Marshall Islands Micronesia, Fed. Sts. Midway Is. Mongolia Myanmar Nauru Niue Palau Pitcairn Is. Papua New Guinea Philippines Samoa Solomon Islands Tokelau Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Viet Nam Wake Island Wallis & Futuna Island 
 
 
 
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