TN/AG /GEN/34/Rev.5 /Add.2  
TN/AG/SCC/GEN/13/Rev.5 /Add.2  
 
6 January 2017  
(17-0083) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Agriculture  
Special Se ssion  
Sub-Committee on Cotton    
 
COTTON  
BACKGROUND PAPER BY THE SECRETARIAT1 
Addendum  
This document contain s one additional  reply from Thailand to the questionnaire on recent  policy 
developments for cotton , which was circulat ed on 13 September  2016, and should be read in 
conjunction with  Annex 4 of document TN/AG/GEN/34/Rev.5  - TN/AG/SCC/GEN/13/Rev.5 , which 
was circulated on 14 November 2016 . 
                                                
1 This document has bee n prepared under the Secretariat's own responsibility and is without prejudice 
to the positions of Members or to their rights and obligations under the WTO. It has been prepared for 
information only and is not intended to provide any authoritative or offic ial legal interpretation of the provisions 
of the WTO Agreements in general or in relation to any measure listed in this document.  TN/AG/GEN/34/Rev.5/Add.2 • TN/AG/SCC/GEN/13/Rev.5 /Add.2  
 
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  Reply from Thailand  
1. Market Access:  Thailand has provided Duty Free/ Quota Free (DFQF) to cotton from LDCs 
since April 2015, as detail elaborated in the table below.  
2. Domestic Support: Thailand has no domestic support on cotton.  
3. Export Competition:  Thailand has no export subsidy on cotton.  
 
 Applied Duties  (Year 2014)  
Tariff Line 
(HS 2002)  Designation  Bound 
Duty  Other Duties 
and Charges  Tariff Line 
(HS 2012)  MFN LDC 
Preferential  
520100  Cotton, not carded or combed  4.5%    52010000  0% 0% 
5202 Cotton waste (including yarn waste 
and garnetted stock)           
520210  - Yarn waste (including thread waste)  4.5%    52021000  0% 0% 
52029  - Other:           
520291 -- Garnetted stock  4.5%    52029100  0% 0% 
520299  -- Other  4.5%    52029900  0% 0% 
520300  Cotton, carded or combed  4.5%    52030000  0% 0% 
 
Bound Duties  Applied Duties (Year 2014)  
Tariff Line 
(HS 2002)  Designation  Bound 
Duty  Other Duties 
and Charges  Tarif f Line  
(HS 2012)  MFN LDC 
Preferential  
1207 Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, 
whether or not broken:       
120720  -Cotton seeds  30%     
      12072100¹  30% 0% 
      12072900²  30% 0% 
1404 Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or 
included:       
140420  -Cotton linters  4.5%   14042000  4.5%  0% 
1512 Sunflower -seed, safflower or cotton -seed oil 
and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, 
but not chemically modified  
- Cotton -seed oil and its fractions       
151221  --Crude oil, whether or not gossyp ol has been 
removed  27%,  
0.77 B/Lt   15122100  27% 
or 0.75 
Bath/Litre 
whichever 
is higher   
151229  --Other       
1512291  - - - Edible  27%,  
5 B/Lt   15122910³  27% 
or 0.75 
Bath/Litre 
whichever 
is higher   
1512299  - - - Other  27%,  
0.77 B/Lt   15122990  27% or 5  
Bath/Litre 
whichever 
is higher   
1521 Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), 
beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, 
whether or not refined or coloured:       
152110  -Vegetable waxes  27%,  
1.26 B/Kg   15211000  5% or 0.25 
Bath/KG 
whichever 
is higher  0% 
2306 Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or 
not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting 
from the extraction of vegetable fats or oils, 
other than those of heading 23.04 or 23.05       
230610  -Of cotton seeds  9%  23061000  9% 0% 
2936 Provitami ns and vitamins, natural or 
reproduced by synthesis (including natural 
concentrates), derivatives thereof used 
primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of 
the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent  
- Vitamins and their derivatives, unmixed       
293624  --D- or DL -Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B3 or 
Vitamin B5) and its derivatives  30%  29362400  1% 0% 
293628  --Vitamin E and its derivatives  30%  29362800  1% 0% 
¹ --seed.  
² --other.  
³ ---fractions of unrefined cotton -seed oil.  
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