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31. Non-application of definitive safeguard measure to certain developing countries

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other provisions of this Act, a definitive safeguard measure shall not be applied to imports of the investigated product originating in a developing country Member, so long as those imports account for not more than three per centum of Sri

Lanka’s total imports of the investigated product.

(2)

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), where imports from developing country Members which individually account for less than three per centum of Sri

Lanka’s imports of the investigated product, collectively account for more than nine per centum of Sri Lanka’s imports of the investigated product, a definitive safeguard measure may be applied to such imports from those developing country Members.

Read on from s 32