KOREA - MEASURES CONCERNING THE SHELF-LIFE OF PRODUCTS
Document: Notification of Mutually Agreed Solution Communication from the Republic of Korea Addendum The followingcommunication, entitled"Notificationof theCorresponding HarmonizedSystem Headings of the Products, for which Shelf-Life Requirements Will Be Removed from the Korean Food Code on 1 July 1996", dated 1 July 1996, from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea, is circulated at the request of that delegation.
Date: 19 July 1996
Document codes: WT/DS5/5/Add.4; G/SPS/W/27/Add.4; G/TBT/D/3/Add.4; G/AG/W/8/Add.4
Complainant: U.S.
Respondent: South Korea
Dispute stage: Consultation
Agreements cited: Art. 4  AgricultureArt. III, XI  GATT 1994Art. 2, 5  Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)Art. 2  Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)

KOREA - MEASURES CONCERNING THE SHELF-LIFE OF PRODUCTS
Notification of Mutually Agreed Solution
Communication from the Republic of Korea
Addendum
The followingcommunication, entitled"Notificationof theCorresponding HarmonizedSystem
Headings of the Products, for which Shelf-Life Requirements Will Be Removed from the Korean Food
Code on 1 July 1996", dated 1 July 1996, from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea, is
circulated at the request of that delegation.
In accordance with the agreement regarding the shelf-life issue between the Government of
the Republic of Korea and the Government of the United States of America which was notified to the
WTO Secretariat on 26 January 1996, the Government of the Republic of Korea hereby notifies the
WTO Secretariat of the corresponding Harmonized System headings of the products for which shelf-life
requirements will be removed from the Korean Food Code on 1 July 1996. The list of those products
is attached hereto.

NOTIFICATION OF THE CORRESPONDING HARMONIZED SYSTEM HEADINGS
OF THE PRODUCTS FOR WHICH SHELF-LIFE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE
REMOVED FROM THE KOREAN FOOD CODE ON 1 JULY 1996
Products
Categories under
the Food Code
Products HS No. Remark
1. Confectionaries 1-1 Breads and rice cakes
- Frozen 1905
4. Milk and Milk
Products
4-6 Fermented milk
Products
- Frozen
4-8 Concentrated milk
- Sterilized
4-9 Milk cream
- Frozen
0403
0402.9
0401.30
0402.9

Products
Categories under
the Food Code
Products HS No. Remark
5. Meat &
Meat Products
5-1 Meat Products
(1) Sausage, mixed sausage
(a) Cooked
- Frozen
(b) Uncooked
- Frozen
(c) Sterilized
(2) Semi-dry sausage, semi-dry
mixed sausage
(3) Seasoned meat
(Marinated meat)
- Frozen
(4) Ground meat products
(a) Cooked
- Frozen
(b) Uncooked
(c) Sterilized meat
(5) Packaged meat
(a) Beef
- Frozen
(b) Pork
- Frozen
(c) Poultry meat
Miscellaneous meat
- Frozen
(d) Vacuum packed chilled
meat
- Beef
- Pork
- Lamb
(6) Frozen meat
(a) Beef
(b) Pork
(c) Lamb
(d) Poultry meat
Miscellaneous meat
5-2 Egg products
(1) Frozen liquid
(2) Pidan
1601.00
1601.00
1601.00
1601.00
1602
1602
1602
1602
0202
0203
0207,
0204,
0205,
0208
0201
0203
0204
0202
0203
0204
0205.00
0207, 0208
0407.00
0408

Products
Categories under
the Food Code
Products HS No. Remark
6. Fishery Products 6-1 Fishery products
- Frozen surimi
1604, 1605
0304, 0305
7. Bean Curd
Products
7.2 Processed bean curd (tofu)
- Freeze-dried bean curd
7-4 Mook (Korean traditional Jelled
Food)
- Conjak Mook
2106.10
2106.90
9. Noodles 9-1 Noodles
- Frozen 1902.19
11. Beverages 11-1 Fruit & Vegetable beverages
- Frozen concentrated products
for raw material
11.3 Soy milk
(1) Pasteurized (below PH4.6)
(2) Sterilized
2009
2202.90
2202.90
13. Health Foods 13-6 Fermented agricultural products
containing enzyme
13-7 Products containing lactic acid
bacteria
13-19 Aloe products
(1) Liquid
(2) Solid
2106.90
2106.90
2106.90
2106.90
18. Alcoholic
Beverages
18-1 Takju Pasteurized
18-2 Yakju Pasteurized
2206.00
2206.00
20. Miscellaneous
Foods
20-8 Processed fruit and vegetable
products
- Frozen
20-9 Seasoned laver
2202,
2204,
2208
2106.90
*Others Frozen foods not covered by individual
food categories
The following
HS codes are
included in
this group:
0306, 0710,
0811, 1604,
1605, 2002,
2004, 2008