Committee on Safeguards - Notification under Article 12.1(a) of the Agreement on Safeguards on Initiation of an Investigation and the Reasons for it - Questions Posed by Peru in Relation to the Notification[...]nama - (Printed Film in Rolls)

World Trade Organization G/SG/Q2/PAN/3 7 May 2007 (07-1885) Committee on Safeguards Original: Spanish NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 12.1(a) OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS ON INITIATION OF AN INVESTIGATION AND THE REASONS FOR IT Questions Posed by PERU in Relation to the Notification Submitted by PANAMA (Printed Film in Rolls) The following communication, dated 23 April 2007, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Peru. _______________ 1. Representativeness, major proportion and analysis of serious injury The Agreement on Safeguards establishes that a general safeguard measure may only be applied if imports have increased in such a way as to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the domestic industry. Pursuant to Article 4.1(c) of the Agreement, "domestic industry" is understood to mean the producers as a whole operating within the territory of a Member, whose collective output constitutes a major proportion of th