WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/SG/N/11/PHL/7/Suppl.4 
G/SG/N/14/PHL/7 20 April 2012 
 
(12-2107) 
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 
 
(Steel Angle Bars) 
   The following communication, dated 16 April 2012,  is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the Philippines.
1   
 
_______________ 
 
  Further to G/SG/N/8/PHL/7/Suppl.1, G/SG/N /10/PHL/6, and G/SG/N/11/PHL/7/Suppl.1 
circulated on 31 August 2009, and pursuant to Artic le 12.1(c) and Article 9, Footnote 2, of the 
Agreement on Safeguards, the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the WTO hereby notifies that 
an affirmative finding has been made to extend the safeguard measure on steel angle bars for a period 
of 3 years at a duty of Philippine Pesos 3,901.08/MT on the first year of the extension;  3,706.03/MT for the second year:  and 3,520.73/MT for the third year.  The amount of the duty shall be subject to a regular review to provide for an opport unity to modify the rate as necessary. 
  
                                                      
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/11/PHL/7/Suppl.4 
G/SG/N/14/PHL/7 Page 2 
 
 
  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 
Bostwana 
Burundi Comoros 
Congo. Dem. Rep. 
Djibouti Eritrea 
Ethiopioa 
Kenya Lesotho 
Madgascar 
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 
Negeria 
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 
 
 
 
  G/SG/N/11/PHL/7/Suppl.4 
 G/SG/N/14/PHL/7 
 Page 3 
 
 
   
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 & Navis 
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 
Malaysia Marshall Islands 
Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 
Midway Is. Mongolia 
Myanmar 
Nauru New Caledonia 
Niue 
Northern Marianas Is. Palau 
Pitcairn Is. 
Papua New Guinea Samoa 
Singapore 
Solomon Islands Thailand 
Tokelau 
Tonga 
Tuvalu 
Vanuatu Vietnam 
Wake Is. 
Wallis & Futuna Is. 
 
__________