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G/SG/N/11/PHL/1/Suppl.5 
G/SG/N/14/PHL/1/Suppl.5 9 January 2012 
 
(12-0087) 
Committee on Safeguards Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2, 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.1(C) OF THE  
AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS 
(EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING MEASURE)  
 
PHILIPPINES 
 
(Ceramic Floor and Wall Tiles) 
 
Supplement 
   The following communication, dated 3 January 2012,  is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the Philippines.   
 
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  Further to G/SG/N/14/PHL/1/Suppl.4 dated 09 February 2010, the Permanent Mission of the 
Philippines to the WTO notifies that, on 16 December 2011 the safeguard duty on ceramic floor and 
wall tiles was reduced from Philippine Pesos 1.80 pe r kilogram for the third year of the final 
extension of the measure, to Philippine Pesos 1.76 per k ilogram for the last year of the extension.  The 
Philippines also notifies the list of developing countries exempt from the measure pursuant to 
Article 9.1 of the Agreement on Safeguards.    
 
    
 
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  List of Developing Countries and Separate Cu stoms Territories Excluded from the Imposition 
of Definitive Safeguard Measure on Ceramic Floor and Wall Tiles 
 
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 
Equitorial Guinea Gabon 
Gamibi, 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 
Maldives Nepal 
Pakistan 
Sri Lanka
 
 
  
 
    
 
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Americas  Europe & Central 
AsiaMiddle East East Asia & Pacific
Anguilla 
Antigua and Barbuda 
Argentina 
Aruba 
Bahamas 
Barbados Belize 
Bermuda 
Bolivia, Plurinational State of British Virgin Is. 
Cayman Islands 
Chile Colombia 
Costa Rica 
Cuba Dominica 
Dominican Rep. 
Ecuador El Salvador 
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 
French Guiana Granada 
Guadeloupe 
Guatemala 
Guyana 
Haiti Honduras 
Jamaica 
Martinique Mexico 
Montserrat 
Netherland Antilles Nicaraguia 
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 and Caicos Is. Uruguay 
US Virgin Island 
Venezuela, Bolivarian       Republic of
 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, Kingdom of 
Iran, Islamic Rep. 
Iraq 
Israel 
Jordan 
Kuwait Lebanon 
Oman 
Qatar Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
Syrian Arab Rep. 
West Bank & Gaza Yemen, Rep.
 American Samoa Brunei Darussalam 
Cambodia 
Christmas Is. 
Cocos (Keeling) Is. 
Cook Is. Fiji 
French Polynesia 
Guam Johnston Is. 
Kiribati 
Korea, Dem. Rep. Lao PDR 
Macao, China 
Marshall Islands Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 
Midway Is. 
Mongolia Myanmar 
Nauru 
New Caledonia Niue 
Northern Marianas Island 
Palau 
Papua New Guinea 
Pitcairn Is. Samoa 
Singapore 
Soloman Islands Tokelau 
Tonga 
Tuvalu Vanuatu 
Wake Is. 
Wallis and Futuna Is.
 
 
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