WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SG/N/7/THA/1 
G/SG/N/8/THA/1 
G/SG/N/11/THA/1 
7 January 2011 
 (11-0099) 
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 SE RIOUS INJURY OR THREAT 
THEREOF CAUSED BY INCREASED IMPORTS 
 
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2, 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
 
THAILAND 
 
(Glass Block ) 
 
 
 The following communication, dated 5 January 2011,  is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Thailand.  
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  Pursuant to Article 12 of the WTO Agreem ent on Safeguards, the Kingdom of Thailand 
hereby notifies the Committee on Safeguards of the r esults of its preliminary determination on the 
investigation on the importations of glass block a nd before taking a provisional safeguard measure 
under Article 6 of the Agreement on Safeguards.  
 
1. Product subject to the proposed provisional safeguard measure  
 
 Glass block classified under the Thai Customs Tariff Code 7016.9000.    2. Proposed provisional safeguard measure 
 
 The provisional safeguard measure will take the form of tariff increases of 35 per cent of CIF price.  
 However, imports originating from developing countries covered by the rule under Article 9 
of the Agreement on Safeguards shall not be subject to the provisional safeguard measure.  Attached 
as Annex
 is the list of said developing countries.  
 
3. Proposed date of introduction of the provisional safeguard measure  
  The provisional safeguard measure is scheduled to enter into force on the day following the 
publication of the Notification of the Committee on Safeguard Measures of Thailand regarding the 
imposition of provisional safeguard measure in the Royal Gazette. G/SG/N/7/THA/1 
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  4. Expected duration of the provisional safeguard measure 
 
 The provisional safeguard measure will remain inforce for a period not exceeding 
two hundred (200) days.  
 
5. The basis for the imposition of  provisional safeguard measure: 
 
 (i) Preliminary determination, as provided for in Article 6  
 
 As explained in the notification on the initiation of the safeguard investigation, imports into 
Thailand of the product concerned have increased si nce B.E. 2550 (2007).  Particularly, in B.E. 2552 
(2009) the imports have increased by 25.62 per cent, compared to the increase of imports in B.E. 2550 
(2007) and more specially, in the first half year of B.E. 2553 (2010), the im ports of product concerned 
accounts for 123.78 per cent, compared to the same period in B.E. 2552 (2009). 
 
(ii) Critical circumstances where delay would cause damage which it would be 
difficult to repair 
 
 Increased imports, as mentioned above, have caused substantial damages to the domestic 
industry, particularly in terms of the decreases in the level of the share of the domestic market, the 
level of sales, the level of production an d the level of capacity utilization.  
  Furthermore, the market share of the imports has been up to 65.13 per cent during the period from January to November B.E. 2553 (2010).  Par ticularly, the market share of the imports in 
November B.E. 2553 (2010) was up to 81.52 per cent.  This situation drives domestic industry to loss 
more market share and to face serious losses.    In addition, the appreciation of Thai currency will result in a significant further increase in imports of the product concerned into Thailand.  Ther efore, the domestic industry is at risk of having 
to suspend their activities if urgent measures are not taken.   6. Provide information on whether there is an  absolute increase in imports or an increase 
in imports relative to domestic production (please see also Article 2.1 for the context)  
 
 There is an evidence of an ab solute increase in imports of the product concerned to Thailand 
during the period 2007-2010 (January-September).  Su ch absolute increase can be shown in the table 
below.  
 2007 2008 2009 2010 (Jan-Sep) 
Import volume (MT) 8,291.40 10,564.21 10,415.74 19,619.44 
Absolute increase -   2,272.81     -148.47   9,203.70 
Source:   Customs Statistics. 
 
7. Major exporting Members of imports of the product involved 
 
 The product concerned are mainly exported fro m China, Indonesia, Czech Republic and the 
United States, with the share of imports dur ing the period 2007-2008 (January-September) of 
69.82 per cent, 17.54 per cent, 7.80 per cent and 2.50 per cent, respectively.   G/SG/N/7/THA/1 
 G/SG/N/8/THA/1 
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  ANNEX 
 
List of Developing Countries and Separa te Customs Territories Excluded from the 
 
Imposition of Provisional Safegua rd Measure on Glass Block  
  
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 Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe 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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  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. Iran, Islamic Rep. 
Iraq Jordan Lebanon Syrian Arab Rep. West Bank & Gaza Yemen, Rep. Anguilla  
Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Belize Bolivia 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 Venezuela American Samoa 
Cambodia Chinese Taipei  Christmas Is. Cocos (Keeling) Is. Cook Is. Fiji Johnston Is. Kiribati Korea, Dem. Rep. Lao PDR Malaysia 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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