G/SG/N/7/THA/2/Suppl.1  
G/SG/N/8/THA/2/Suppl.1  
 
24 June 2013  
(13-3245)  Page: 1/2  
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 
THAILAND  
(Hot Rolled Steel Flat Products with Certain Amounts of Alloying Elements) 
Supplement 
The following communication, dated 21 June 2013, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Thailand.  
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Further to the notification 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, 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 Hot Rolled Steel Flat Products with Certain 
Amounts of Alloying Elements Such as Boron, Ch romium, etc., in Coils and Not in Coils B.E. 2556 
(A.D.2013) dated 22 February 2013 has been promulgated in the Royal Gazette dated 26 February 2013. This measure takes the form of  a provisional safeguard duty at the rate 
of 33.11% of CIF price with the exemption of impo rters 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 Notification from the imposition of provisional safeguard 
duty. Besides, imports of certain steel products  the specifications of which falling under the 
standards and grades specified in Annex III to the Notification are also exempted from the imposition of provisional safeguard duty.  
The provisional safeguard measure, by virtue of the above-mentioned notification, has entered 
into force on 27 February 2013, and will remain in force for a period not exceeding two hundred (200) days. 
 
Later, the Notification of the Committee on Safeguard Measures of Thailand 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 
(No. 2) B.E. 2556 (A.D. 2013) dated 31 May 2013 has been published in the Royal Gazette on 6 June 2013 with the intention to add the names of importers of the products concerned imported into Thailand for cold rolling process, for hardening process and as special grade steels; and to add 
the standards 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 Annexed III to the Notification dated 22 February 2013 shall be 
revoked and superseded by the Annex II and Annex III to the Notification (No. 2) dated 6 June 2013 which has entered into force on 7 June 2013. G/SG/N/7/THA/2/Suppl.1 • G/SG/N/8/THA/2/Suppl.1 
 
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The Notifications of the Committee on Safeguard Measures of Thailand with the unofficial translation can be downloaded at the official website of the Bureau of Trade Interests and Remedies, Department of Foreign Trade of Thailand ( http://btir.dft.go.th ). 
 
 
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