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ORGANIZATIONG/IT/1/Rev.15
15 September 2000
(00-3629)
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in
Information Technology Products
STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION
Note by the Secretariat
Revision
1. As of 13 September 2000, the ITA had 38 participants (covering 53 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.  Out of these 38, the formal
rectification and modification documents of the following 27 participants have been received andcirculated:
Australia Indonesia Philippines
Canada Israel Poland
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Costa Rica Japan Romania2
Czech Republic1Korea Singapore
El Salvador Macau, China Slovak Republic1
European Communities Malaysia1Switzerland2
Hong Kong, China Mauritius Thailand1
Iceland New Zealand TurkeyIndia Norway United States
Of the above, El Salvador and Poland, have indicated that implementation would begin after
the completion of domestic procedural requirements.
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2. The above mentioned participants that are currently Members of the WTO have submitted
their schedules for rectification and modification pursuant to the Decision of 26 March 1980 on
Procedures for Modification and Rectification of Schedules of Tariff Concessions (BISD 27S/25).
Croatia; the Separate Customs Territory of Taiw an, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu; and Lithuania are
not currently Members of the WTO and are therefore not expected to submit documentation forrectification or modification of schedules.
4  Albania, Estonia, Georgia, Jordan, the Kyrgyz Republic,
and Latvia incorporated their commitments in their schedules annexed to their Protocols of Accession,
                                                     
1First rate reduction occurred on 1 January 1998.
2First rate reduction occurred on 31 December 1997.
3India, Israel, Philippines, Switzerland, and Turkey which had also made such a notification, have
subsequently notified that these procedural requirements have been completed.
4For 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 completion
of its WTO accession, and shall incorporate these meas ures into its WTO market access schedule for goods."G/IT/1/Rev.15
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and therefore it was not necessary to follow the procedures for rectification and modification of tariff
schedules.  Panama and Slovenia have not yet submitted their formal documentation.
3. Letters of acceptance, in accordance with the provision of paragraph 10 of the Annex to the
Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Produc ts, have been received from all participants
except seven.
4. The following documentation, noted as being submitted under paragraph 1 above, has been
formally certified by the Director-General:
Australia; Canada; Costa Rica; Czech Republic; European Communities; Hong Kong, China;
Iceland; India; Indonesia; Israel; Japan; Korea; Macau, China; Malaysia; Mauritius; New
Zealand; Norway; Philippines; Romania; Sing apore; Slovak Republic; Switzerland; Thailand;
Turkey; United States.
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