G/SG/N/11/JOR/4/Suppl.2  
 
13 October 2014  
(14-5793)  Page: 1/2  
 Committee on Safeguards  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 9,  
FOOTNOTE 2 OF THE AGREEMENT 
ON SAFEGUARDS 
 
JORDAN  
(Bars and Rods of Iron and Steel) 
Supplement 
The following communication, dated 10 October 2014, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Jordan.  
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In accordance with Article 9.1, footnote 2 of th e Agreement on Safeguards, Jordan hereby submits 
its notification by providing the amended list of developing countries excluded from the imposition 
of the safeguard measure on Bars and Rods of Iron and Steel 
 
i. The reference to the WTO document that notified the Members about the initial 
action under footnote 2 to Article 9.1; 
- (G/SG/N/8/JOR/8-G/SG/N/10/JOR/8-G/SG/N/11/JOR/4) dated 13 February 2013. 
- (G/SG/N/8/JOR/8/Suppl.1-G/SG/N/10/JOR /8/Suppl.1-G/SG/N/11/JOR/4/Suppl.1) 
1 July 2013 
- (G/SG/N/8/JOR/8/Suppl.1/Corr.1-G/SG/N/10/JOR/8/Suppl.1/Corr.1-
G/SG/N/11/JOR/4/Suppl.1/Corr.1) dated 8 July 2013. 
 
ii. if applicable, names of the countries which are dropped from the list of developing 
countries to which the safeguard measure does not apply pursuant to Article 9.1, the 
list of the countries remaining on the list, the individual and collective import shares of the developing countries remaining on the list, and the date on which the safeguard measure applies to the countries dropped from the list; 
The National Production Protection Directorate (NPPD) -the competent authority at the Ministry of 
Industry, Trade and Supply- analysed the volume  of imports of the products concerned after 
imposing the safeguard measure. The analysis show s an increase of imports share originated from 
Egypt beyond 3% of the total imports of the products concerned. 
 Pursuant to Article 9.1, footnote 2 of the Agreement on Safeguards, and Article 38 of the 
Jordanian Regulation on Safeguard of National Pr oduction No. (55) of the year 2000, the list of 
developing countries will be amended by dropping Egypt from the list starting from 15 October 2014.  
The amended list of developing countries to which the measure does not apply is attached to this 
notification.  G/SG/N/11/JOR/4/Suppl.2 
 
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  List of Developing Countries 
Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa 
Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina 
Armenia Aruba Azerbaijan Bahamas 
Bahrain Kingdom of Bangladesh Barbados Belarus 
Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia, Plurinational 
State of 
Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam 
Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon 
Cabo Verde Central Africa n Republic Chad Chile 
China Chinese Taipei Colombia Comoros 
Congo Cook Islands Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire 
Croatia Cuba Democratic Republic of 
Congo Djibouti 
Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador 
El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia 
Fiji Gabon Georgia Ghana 
Gibraltar Greenland Grenada Guam 
Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana 
Haiti Honduras Hong Kong, China India 
Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel 
Jamaica Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati 
Korea, Republic of Kuwait, the St ate of Kyrgyz Republic Laos PDR 
Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia 
Libya Lithuania Macao, China Madagascar 
Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali 
Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius 
Mayotte Mexico Micronesia, Fed Sts Midway Is. 
Moldova, Republic of Mo ngolia Montserrat Morocco 
Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru 
Nepal Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia Nicaragua 
Niger Nigeria Niue Island Norfolk Island 
Northern Mariana 
Islands Oman Pakistan Palau 
Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay 
Peru Philippines Pitcairn Qatar 
Reunion Rwanda Saint Lucia Samoa 
Sao Tomé and Principe Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Senegal Serbia & Montenegro 
Seychelles Sierra Leon e Singapore Slovakia 
Slovenia Solomon Island s Somalia South Africa 
Sri Lanka St Helena and 
dependencies St Kitts and Nevis St Pierre and Miquelon 
St Vincent Sudan Suriname Swaziland 
Syrian Arab Republic Taji kistan Tanzania Thailand 
The Gambia Togo Tokelau Tonga 
Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkme nistan Turks and Caicos Islands 
Tuvalu Uganda Uruguay Uzbekistan 
Vanuatu Venezuela Bolivarian, 
Republic of Viet Nam Yemen 
Yugoslavia, Fed. Rep Zambia   
 
 
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