ANNOUNCEMENT 29 Dec 2008

In December 2008, the government of Republic of Korea initiated a new safeguard investigation.

NUMBER OF INTERVENTIONS

1

  • 1 harmful
  • 0 neutral
  • 0 liberalising

SOURCE



Press Release, ''09 ', Ministry of Strategy and Finance, http://www.mosf.go.kr/news/news02.jsp?boardType=general&hdnBulletRunno=62&cvbnPath=&sub_category=&hdnFlag=&cat=&hdnDiv=&select=subject&date_start=2008-12-01&date_end=2014-11-01&&actionType=view&runno=86469&hdnTopicDate=2008-12-29&hdnPage=276


Inception date: 01 Jan 2009 | Removal date: 01 Jan 2010
Still in force

Safeguard

On 29 December 2008, Ministry of Strategy and Finance has announced that it will implement a Special Safeguards measure on 29 agricultural products for the year 2009. The ministry said that 'the measure is to protect the local producers of those products from either rapid increase of imports, or drop of import price.'
 
For the exact HS codes, trigger levels, tariffs, we refer to Appendix() 1-2 of this document. 

AFFECTED SECTORS

 
011 015 017 019 214 231 232 239 354

AFFECTED PRODUCTS

 
071310 071331 071332 071333 071339 071410 100810 100829 110220 110423 110812 110813 110814 110819 120242 121120 121190 130213 130219 130220 130232 130239 210610 210690 330124 330129 330190
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