WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/SG/N/10/IDN/11/Suppl.1 
G/SG/N/11/IDN/11 
19 December 2012 
 (12-6958) 
Committee on Safeguards Original:   English 
   
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 12.1(C) 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
 
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
 
INDONESIA 
 
 (Articles of Iron or Steel Wire)  
 
 
 The following communication, dated 17 December 2012, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of Indonesia  
 
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 Pursuant to Article 12.1(c) of the WTO Agre ement on Safeguards, the Republic of Indonesia 
hereby notifies the imposition of a safeguard measure in the form of specific safeguard duty on the 
importation of Subject Good, for a period of 4 (four) years by the issuance of Minister of Finance's Regulation Number 187/PMK.011/2012 dated 20 Novemb er 2012, promulgated in the Berita Negara 
of the Republic of Indonesia Year 2012 Number 1142 on the same date. 
 
A. GENERAL BACKGROUND   On 26 January 2012 the Republic of Indonesia notified on the findings of the investigation in which it was concluded that there was strong evidence that the increased volume of imports of the Subject Good have caused threat of serious injury to the domestic industry concerned 
(G/SG/N/8/IDN/11-G/SG/N/10/IDN/11). 
  It was also indicated in the notification that the Investigating Authority was proposing to the 
Government of the Republic of Indonesia the impos ition of a safeguard measure in the form of a 
specific safeguard duty on the importation of the Subj ect Good, both in terms of amount and duration 
of such measure. 
 B. SUBJECT GOOD   Articles in the form of boxes, cylinders, or mattress made from iron or steel wire with 
thickness diameter of minimum 2 mm up to maximum 5 mm, in which the iron or steel wire is double 
coil one to another yielding hexagonal circles with diameter of minimum 50 mm up to maximum 120 mm, and plated with zinc or plastic poly vinyl chloride (PVC), which falls under HS code Ex. 
7326.20.90.00.   G/SG/N/10/IDN/11/Suppl.1 
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  C. DESCRIPTION OF THE SAFEGUARD MEASURE 
 1. With reference to the proposal of the Inv estigating Authority, and taking into account the 
need to effectuate the safeguard measure as proposed  and the relevant requirements stipulated in the 
WTO Agreement on Safeguards, the Government of the Republic of Indonesia has decided to impose 
the following safeguard duty:  
Timetable of the Safeguard Duty 
 
Period Specific Duty 
20 November 2012 - 19 November 2013 Rp. 18,511 per kilogram 
20 November 2013 - 19 November 2014 Rp. 17,739 per kilogram 
20 November 2014 - 19 November 2015 Rp. 16,968 per kilogram 
20 November 2015 - 19 November 2016 Rp. 16,197 per kilogram 
 
2. In accordance with Article 7.4 of the WTO Ag reement on Safeguards, the Government of the 
Republic of Indonesia will undertake a midterm re view of such safeguard measure in 2015. 
 3. Below is the list of developing countries ex cluded from the said safeguard measure, and the 
Government of the Republic of Indonesia reserves th e right to review and to change such list from 
time to time.  
List of Developing Countries Excluded from the Measures 
 
No. Country No. Country 
1 Albania 59 Lesotho 
2 Angola 60 Lithuania 
3 Antigua, and Barbuda 61 Macao, China 
4 Argentina 62 Madagascar 
5 Armenia 63 Malawi  
6 Bahrain, Kingdom of 64 Maldives 
7 Bangladesh 65 Mali 
8 Barbados 66 Mauritania 
9 Belize 67 Mauritius 
10 Benin 68 Mexico 
11 Bolivia, Plurinational State of  69 Moldova 
12 Botswana 70 Mongolia 
13 Brazil 71 Morocco 
14 Brunei Darussalam 72 Mozambique 
15 Bulgaria 73 Myanmar 
16 Burkina Faso 74 Namibia 
17 Burundi 75 Nepal 
18 Cambodia 76 Nicaragua  G/SG/N/10/IDN/11/Suppl.1 
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  No. Country No. Country 
19 Cameroon 77 Niger 
20 Cape Verde 78 Nigeria 
21 Central African Republic 79 Oman 
22 Chad 80 Pakistan 
23 Chile 81 Panama 
24 Chinese Taipei 82 Papua New Guinea 
25 Colombia 83 Paraguay 
26 Congo 84 Peru 
27 Costa Rica 85 Philippines 
28 Côte d'Ivoire 86 Qatar 
29 Croatia 87 Romania 
30 Cuba 88 Rwanda 
31 Democratic Republic of Co ngo 89 Saint Kitts and Nevis 
32 Djibouti 90 Saint Lucia 
33 Dominica 91 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 
34 Dominican Republic 92 Samoa 
35 Ecuador 93 Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of 
36 Egypt 94 Senegal 
37 El Salvador 95 Sierra Leone 
38 Fiji 96 Solomon Islands 
39 Gabon 97 South Africa 
40 The Gambia 98 Sri Lanka 
41 Georgia 99 Suriname 
42 Ghana 100 Swaziland 
43 Grenada 101 Tanzania 
44 Guatemala 102 The former Yugoslav Republic of 
Macedonia (FYROM) 
45 Guinea 103 Togo 
46 Guinea Bissau 104 Tonga 
47 Guyana 105 Trinidad and Tobago 
48 Haiti 106 Tunisia 
49 Honduras 107 Turkey 
50 India 108 Uganda 
51 Israel 109 Ukraine 
52 Jamaica 110 United Arab Emirates 
53 Jordan 111 Uruguay 
54 Kenya 112 Vanuatu 
55 Korea, Republic of 113 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of  
56 Kuwait 114 Viet Nam  G/SG/N/10/IDN/11/Suppl.1 
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  No. Country No. Country 
57 Kyrgyz Republic 115 Zambia 
58 Latvia 116 Zimbabwe 
 
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