7. The annual growth rate for the quantitative limits application of paragraph 1 in any year preceding the final introduced under this Article shall be determined in Agreement year shall be subject to a growth rate so as to accordance with the provisions of Protocol D. ensure that the level of the quantitative limit set out in Annex 11 for the final Agreement year is regained in that year . 8. The provisions of this Article shall not apply where the percentages specified in paragraph 2 have been reached as a 4. Should the Parties be unable in the course of result of fall in total imports into the Community , and not as consultations to reach a satisfactory solution within the a result of an increase in exports of products originating in period specified in Article 17 of the Agreement, Pakistan Pakistan . undertakes , if so requested by the Community : 9. In the event of the provisions of paragraph 2 , 3 or 4 — to suspend wholly or in part , the provisions of Article 7 in being applied , Pakistan undertakes to issue export licences respect of the Community or any of its regions for the for products covered by contracts concluded before the category concerned , or introduction of the quantitative limit, up to the volume of the quantitative limit fixed . — to modify the quantitative limit set out in Annex II for the category concerned so as to restrain exports to the 10 . Up to the date of communication of the statistics Community or any of its regions to 125% of imports referred to in Article 10 , paragraph 6 , the provisions of attained during the preceding calendar year , or to theparagraph 2 of this Article shall apply on the basis of the level of exports up to the date of the request for annual statistics previously communicated by the consultations plus the level of exports provided forCommunity . during the consultation period under paragraph 2 ,