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ORGANIZATIONG/IT/1/Rev.20
17 September 2001
(01-4388)
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in
Information Technology Products
STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION
Note by the Secretariat
Revision
1. As of 14 September 2001, the ITA had 41 participants (covering 56 Members and States or
separate customs territories in the process of acceding to the WTO) representing approximately
93 percent of world trade in information technology products.
Albania Georgia Lithuania Separate Customs Territory
Australia Hong Kong, China Macau, China   of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen,
Bulgaria Iceland Malaysia   and MatsuCanada India Mauritius Singapore
Costa Rica Indonesia New Zealand Slovak Republic
Croatia Israel Norway Slovenia
Cyprus Japan Oman Switzerland
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Czech Republic Jordan Panama Thailand
El Salvador Korea Philippines Turkey
Estonia Kyrgyz Republic Poland United States
European Communities2Latvia Romania
2. If the participant was a WTO Member at the time of their participation in the ITA, they were
required to follow the procedures for the formal rectification and modification of schedules (Decision
of 26 March 1980 on Procedures for Modification and Rectification of Schedules of TariffConcessions, BISD 27S/25) pursuant to paragrap h 2 of the Annex to the Ministerial Declaration.
Thus, documents from the following 30 participants have been received and circulated pursuant to
these procedures:
                                                     
1 On behalf of the customs union Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
2 The schedule of the European Communities comprises the commitments of the 15 member states.G/IT/1/Rev.20
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Australia India Philippines
Bulgaria Indonesia Poland3
Canada Israel Romania4
Costa Rica Japan Singapore
Cyprus Korea Slovak Republic3
Czech Republic3Macau, China Slovenia
El Salvador Malaysia3Switzerland4
European Communities Mauritius Thailand3
Hong Kong, China New Zealand Turkey
Iceland Norway United States
Of the above, Bulgaria and El Salvador have indicated that implementation would begin after
the completion of domestic procedural requirements.5  Panama has not yet submitted its formal
documentation.
3. The Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu is not currently a
Member of the WTO and therefore not expected to submit documentation for rectification or
modification of schedules.  However, they are required by the Declaration to implement the
concessions on an autonomous basis.6
4. Albania, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Jordan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, andOman incorporated their commitments in their sche dules annexed to their Protocols of Accession, and
therefore it was not necessary to follow the procedures for rectification and modification of tariff
schedules.
5. Letters of acceptance, in accordance with the provision of paragraph 10 of the Annex to the
Declaration, have been received from all participants except seven.
6. The following documentation, noted as being submitted under paragraph 2 above, has been
formally certified by the Director-General:
Australia; Canada; Costa Rica; Cyprus; Czech Republic; European Communities; Hong
Kong, China; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Israel; Japan; Korea; Macau, China; Malaysia;
Mauritius; New Zealand; Norway; Philippi nes; Poland; Romania; Singapore; Slovak
Republic; Slovenia
7; Switzerland; Thailand; Turkey; United States.
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3 First rate reduction occurred on 1 January 1998.
4 First rate reduction occurred on 31 December 1997.
5India, Israel, Philippines, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Turkey which had also made such a
notification, have subsequently notified that these procedural requirements have been completed.
6For those participants that are not Members of the WT O, the Declaration states that:  "Each participant
that is not a Member of the WTO shall implement these measures on an autonomous basis, pending completionof its WTO accession, and shall incorporate these meas ures into its WTO market access schedule for goods."
7 Currently in the process of being certified by the Director-General.