WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/JPN/111 
19 May 2005 
 (05-2028) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
  
 The following submission, dated 11 May 2005, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Japan .  The notification concerns the use of special safeguard provisions 
(Table MA:5) during the fiscal year 2004 .  
 G/AG/N/JPN/111 
Page 2 Table MA:5 
MARKET ACCESS: Japan 
 
REPORTING PERIOD: Fiscal year 2004 (from 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005) 
 
Annual summary of special safeguard actions taken 
 
Tariff item number Description of product Whether volume-based action taken during peri od Whether price-based action taken duri ng period 
1 2 3 4 
0401.20 Milk and cream, not concentrated nor 
containing added sugar or other sweetening matter: 
- Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 1% 
but not exceeding 6%:   
sterilized, frozen or preserved  
 Date of application: 
from 1 November 2004 to 31 March 2005 None 
0713.10.229 Peas (Pisum  sativum) None Date of application: 
29 November 2004 
 
0713.39.227 Beans other than beans of the species Vigna 
mungo (L.) Hepper or Vigna radiata (L.) 
Wilczek, small red (Adzuki) beans and kidney 
beans    None Date of application: 
28 October 2004 
 
1102.30.090 Rice flour None Date of application: 
16 April 2004,  17 June 2004, 22 October 2004, 
19 November 2004,   2 December 2004 
 
1108.12 Maize (corn) starch Date of application: 
from 1 December 2004 to 31 March 2005 
 None 
1108.14.090  Manioc (cassava) starch  None Date of application: 
6 April 2004,  29 November 2004,   2 December 2004 
 
1108.19.099 Other starches (excluding Sago starches) None Date of application: 
17 June 2004 
  
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1108.20 Inulin Date of application: 
from 1 October 2004 to 31 March 2005 
 None 
1901.20.159 Food preparations, cont aining flour, groats, 
meal, pellets or starch of rice, wheat, triticale or   
barley, which total weight is more than 85% of 
the articles and mostly containing starch 
 None Date of application: 
17 November 2004, 19 November 2004,  2 December 2004,  28 December 2004 
1901.90.179 Food preparations, containing groats, meal, 
pellets or starch of rice, wheat, triticale, barley, 
which total weight is more than 85% of the 
articles and mostly containing starch 
 None Date of application: 
16 November 2004,  19 November 2004,  
13 December 2004, 17 December 2004,  
12 January 2005, 18 February 2005,  
10 March 2005, 17 March 2005 
 
1901.20, 1901.90 Food preparations of flour, meal, or starch, 
containing one or more of those groats, meal, 
pellets of rice, wheat, triticale, barley or starch, which total weight is more than 85% of the 
articles and mostly containing starch 
 Date of application: 
from 1 March 2005 to 31 March 2005 None 
1904.10.212 Prepared foods containing not less than 50% by 
weight of those obtained by merely swelling or 
roasting of rice, wheat, triticale or barley, of rice None Date of application: 
8  December 2004 
 
2106.90.129 Food preparations cont aining by weight not less 
than 30% natural milk constituents on the dry matter None Date of application: 
4 February 2005, 9 February 2005,  16 March 2005, 28 March 2005 
 
 
 
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