WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/SG/N/8/PHL/8/Suppl.2 
G/SG/N/10/PHL/7/Suppl.1
G/SG/N/11/PHL/9/Suppl.2 
18 April 2012 
 (12-2071) 
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 
 
PHILIPPINES 
 
(Testliner board) 
 
Supplement 
 
 
 The following notification, dated 17 April 2012, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the Philippines. 1 
 
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  Further to G/SG/N/8/PHL/8/Suppl.1-G/SG/ N/10/PHL/7-G/SG/N/11/PHL/9/Suppl.1 dated 
11 August 2011, the Philippines notifies the Committee that, per order of the Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry on 27 March 2012,  the safeguard duty on Testliner Boards was 
reduced from Philippine Pesos 1,342.00/MT in the first year of the implementation period, to 
Philippine Pesos 1,274.90/MT for the second year of  the implementation peri od, and will be reduced 
to Philippine Pesos 1,211.15/MT for the third year of the implementation period .  The Philippines also notifies the list of developing countries exempt from the measure pursuant to Article 9.1 of the Agreement on Safeguards.   
                                                      
1 A copy of the Order from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Philippines has been submitted 
electronically.  To consult this document, please contact  Ms H. Budd (hilary.budd@wto.org) or Ms D. Naville 
(delphine.naville@wto.org) in the Rules Division. G/SG/N/8/PHL/8/Suppl.2 
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  ANNEX  
 
 
List of Developing Countries and Separate Cu stoms Territories Excluded from the Imposition of 
Definitive Safeguard Measure on Steel Angle Bars 
 
 
East & Southern 
Africa West Africa North Africa South Asia 
Angola 
Botswana 
Burundi Comoros 
Congo. Dem. Rep. 
Djibouti 
Eritrea 
Ethiopia Kenya 
Lesotho 
Madagascar Malawi 
Mauritius 
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 Equatorial Guinea 
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 Croatia 
Cyprus 
Czech Republic Estonia 
Georgia 
Greenland 
Hungary 
Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic 
Latvia 
Lithuania Macedonia, FYR 
Malta 
Moldova Poland 
Romania 
Russian Federation Slovakia 
Slovenia 
Tajikistan Turkey 
Turkmenistan 
Ukraine Uzbekistan 
Yugoslavia, Fed. Rep. Bahrain 
Iran, Islamic Rep. 
Iraq Israel 
Jordan 
Kuwait Lebanon 
Oman 
Qatar Saudi Arabia 
Syrian Arab Rep. 
United Arab Emirates 
West Bank & Gaza 
Yemen, Rep. Anguilla  
Antigua & Barbuda 
Argentina Aruba 
Bahamas 
Barbados Belize 
Bermuda 
Bolivia Brazil 
British Virgin Is. 
Cayman 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 
Netherland Antilles 
Nicaragua Norfolk Is. 
Panama 
Paraguay Peru 
Puerto Rico 
St. Helena St. Kitts & Nevis 
St. Lucia 
St. Pierre & Miquelon St. Vincent & the  
      Grenadines 
Suriname Trinidad & Tobago 
Turks & Caicos Is. 
Uruguay US Virgin Is. 
Venezuela American Samoa 
Brunei Darussalam 
Cambodia Christmas Is. 
Cocos (Keeling) Is. 
Cook Is. Fiji 
French Polynesia 
Guam Hong Kong, China 
Indonesia 
Johnston Is. 
Kiribati 
Korea, Dem. Rep. Lao PDR 
Macau, China 
Marshall Islands Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 
Midway Is. 
Mongolia Myanmar 
Nauru 
New Caledonia Niue 
Northern Marianas Is. 
Palau Pitcairn Is. 
Papua New Guinea 
Samoa Solomon Islands 
Tokelau 
Tonga 
Tuvalu 
Vanuatu Wake Is. 
Wallis & Futuna Is. 
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