WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/SG/N/8/THA/1/Suppl.4 
G/SG/N/10/THA/1/Suppl.2 
G/SG/N/11/THA/1/Suppl.4 
19 October 2012 
 (12-5692) 
Committee on Safeguards Original:   English 
  
 
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 12.1(C) 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
 
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2, 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
 
THAILAND 
 
(Glass Block) 
 
Supplement 
 
 
 The following communication, dated 18 October 2012, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Thailand.  
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  With reference to document G/SG/N/8/THA/1/Suppl.2-G/SG/N/10/THA/1-G/SG/N/11/THA/1/Suppl.2, dated 8 August 2011, c oncerning the safeguard measure on glass block 
product, the delegation of Thailand notifies that the list of developing countries exempt from the 
safeguard measure that originally accompanied th e notification should be replaced by the list as 
enclosed.  
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  IN THE MATTER OF THE IMPOSITION OF THE DEFINITIVE SAFEGUARD MEASURE 
AGAINST THE IMPORTATION OF GLASS BLOCK FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES 
 
 
 On 3 August 2011, the Committee on Safeguard Measures of Thailand issued the Notification 
B.C.2554 implementing the imposition of definitive safeguard measure on importation of glass block 
classified under the Thai Customs Tariff Code 7016. 9000.  The definitive safeguard measure has 
entered into force on 18 August 2011, and w ill remain in force until 14 January 2014.   
  As provided under Article 32 of the Safegua rd Measures on Increased Import Act B.C. 2550 
(2007) "Safeguard measure shall not be applied against a product originating in a developing 
country if its share of imports does not exceed  3 per cent of total imports of the product 
concerned, provided that the developing count ries with less than 3 percent import share 
collectively account for not more than 9 per cent of total imports of the product concerned". 
 
 Pursuant to this, the DFT analyzed the volume of imports of glass block from various countries for January 2011 to July 2012 period (the period on which official trade statistic i.e. Import 
Entry Declarations from Thai Customs Department , are available).  The review indicated that 
importation of glass block from Malaysia already acc ounted for 4.17% of total Thai imports of said 
product for January to July 2012 period.    WHEREFORE AND IN VIEW THEREOF , in accordance with Article 32 of the Safeguard 
Measures on Increased Import Act B.C. 2550 and Article 9.1 footnote 2 of the Agreement on 
Safeguards, the Committee on Safeguard Measures of Thailand hereby amend its Decision of 
3 August 2011 (as amended by the Committee on Sa feguard Measures Notification of 5 October 2012 
which has been published in the Royal Gazette of  15 October 2012 and has entered into force on 
16 October 2012) specifically on the list of countries exempted from the position of the said definitive safeguard measure on glass block as follows:  
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 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 India 
Maldives 
Nepal Pakistan 
Sri Lanka 
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  Swaziland 
Tanzania Uganda 
Zambia 
Zimbabwe  
 
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  Europe & Central Asia Middle East Americas East Asia & Pacific 
Albania 
Armenia Azerbaijan 
Belarus 
Bosnia & Herzegovina 
Bulgaria 
Georgia Kazakhstan 
Kosovo 
Kyrgyz Republic Lithuania 
Macedonia, FYR 
Moldova Montenegro 
Romania 
Russian Federation Serbia 
Tajikistan 
Turkey Turkmenistan 
Ukraine 
Uzbekistan Yugoslavia, Fed. Rep. Iraq 
Jordan Lebanon 
Syrian Arab Rep. 
West Bank & Gaza 
Yemen, Rep. Anguilla  
Antigua & Barbuda Argentina 
Belize 
Bolivarian Republic of 
Venezuela 
Bolivia, Plurinational State of Brazil 
British Virgin Is. 
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 Is. 
Panama 
Paraguay Peru 
St. Helena 
St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia 
St. Pierre & Miquelon 
St. Vincent & the Grenadines Suriname 
Uruguay American Samoa 
Cambodia Chinese Taipei  
Christmas Is. 
Cocos (Keeling) Is. 
Cook Is. 
Fiji Johnston Is. 
Kiribati 
Korea, Dem. Rep. Lao PDR 
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 Is. Wallis & Futuna Is. 
 
 
   
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