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RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/4/Rev.1 
18 April 2001 
 (01-1962) 
Working Party on the 
Accession of Kazakstan Original:   English 
 
 
 
ACCESSION OF KAZAKSTAN 
 
Market Access Offer on Goods  
 
Revision  
 
 The Chairman of the Inter Ministerial Commission on WTO Issues of the Republic of 
Kazakstan has submitted a revised market access o ffer goods which is available from the secretariat 
(Accessions Division, Room 1126) or in electroni c format upon request from accessions@wto.org. 
An introductory note to the revised market access offer on goods also reproduced hereunder. 
 
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The Republic of Kazakstan presents its offers  on market access for goods in a manner 
consistent with the WTO requirements and are divided into two larger groups: (I) Agricultural 
Products and (II) Other Goods. 
The first and the second columns of the submitte d offers are titled as "Codes and Appellations 
of Agricultural Products" and "Other Goods" that incl ude 9,864 lines.  The codes and appellations of 
goods correspond with the effective Kazakstani Nomenc lature of Goods involve d in foreign economic 
activities, which is based on the Harmonized Sy stem of Appellations of Goods and Codes. 
The third column of the offers titled as the "Initial Binding Level" lays down the threshold, at 
which the Republic of Kazakstan offers to bind its  customs import tariffs starting January 1 the year 
following the year of accession to the WTO. 
The fourth column of the offers titled as the “Final Binding Level” lays down the level, at 
which the Republic of Kazakstan offers to bind its customs import tariffs at the end of the transition 
period. 
The fifth column of the offers titled as the “Transitional Period” determines the duration of 
the transition period, in the course of which the initial binding level will be reduced to the final 
binding level. 
Agricultural Products  
The Republic of Kazakstan tried to consider as much as possible  requests and suggestions, 
which were formulated by the WTO members. 
 More than 80 per cent of the tariff nomenclatu re for agricultural products were revised and 
significantly reduced. 
The number of tariff peaks has been considerab ly decreased. The implementation period for 
all tariff positions has been also reduced. WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/4/Rev.1 
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In order to make combined rates of duties more transparent, they have been restructured from 
“%+euro” to “...%, but not less than ... euro per unit” in revised offers. 
The above mentioned amendments  and revisions have resulted in the significant reduction of 
the average trade-weighted levels of bound tariff rates for Agricultural Products as for Initial Bound 
Rate and Final Bound Rate (IBR&FBR). 
Other Products
 
The Government of the Republic of Kazakstan took into consideration requests of the WTO 
Members and offered to bind import customs duties on all industrial products. 
More than 70 per cent of the tariff nomenclat ure for industrial products were revised and 
significantly reduced. 
The corrections and amendments made in the revised offers cover both IBR&FBR based on 
requests of major partner countries of Kazakstan. 
Revised offers also consider partial partic ipation in the sector initiations (on Chemical 
Harmonization and Paper).  
Combined rates of duties have been restructured  from "per cent + euro" to "...per cent, but not 
less than ... euro per unit". 
The implementation period has been drastically  reduced for final tariff binding on industrial 
products. 
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