WT/COMTD/W/246  
 
17 June  2019 
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Committee on Trade and Development    
 
NOTIFICATION S UNDER THE ENABLING CLAUSE  
IMPLEMENTATION OF TH E TRANSPARENCY MECHA NISM FOR REGIONAL TR ADE 
AGREEMENTS  
STATUS OF THE PREPAR ATION OF FACTUAL PRE SENTATION S 
Report by the Chairman  
 
 
 
 
   
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- 2 - RTA Name  Date of 
notification  Data due  Data received  Factual 
Presentation 
sent to  
parties  Comments 
due Comments 
received  Status  
 
1. Comments delayed (Agreements among Members)  
GCC-Singapore (G)  30.6.2015  23.11.2015  Data received from 
Singapore; data prepared 
by the WTO Secretariat for 
the GCC  10.10.2016; 
additional  
tables sent 
20.12.2017  21.11.2016  
 
19.1.2018 for 
tables  No No comments received  
from either Party  
EAC Enlargement (G)  1.8.2012  8.3.2013  Data received  19.5.2014  16.6.2014  No No comments received  
from any of the Parties  
India-Thailand (G)  18.6.2017  10.11.2017  No data received. Data 
from the WTO-IDB used  3.5.2018  31.5.2018  From Thailand 
on 28 June 
2018  Comments received 
from Thailand. No 
comments received 
from India  
Korea -ASEAN (G)  6.7.2010  27.2.2012  Data received from Korea 
and ASEAN members  31.10.2019  14.03.2019 ; 
extended to 
22.03.2019  Comments 
received from 
Korea, 
Indonesia, 
Myanmar, 
Singapore, 
Thailand and 
Viet Nam.  Comments received 
from Korea, Indonesia, 
Myanmar, Singapore, 
Thailand and Viet Nam. 
No comments from 
Brunei Darussalam, 
Cambodia, Lao PDR, 
Malaysia, and the 
Philippines  
India-Afghanistan (G)  8.3.2010  26.7.2010  No data received  9 April 2019  7 May 2019  Comments 
received from 
Afghanistan on 
9 May 2019  Preferential tariffs were 
constructed based on 
the parties' schedules . 
The MFN tariff for 
Afghanistan was 
sourced from the World 
Integrated Trade 
Solution ( WITS) 
database . Import data 
is from UNSD, 
Comtrade  database and 
WTO-IDB. Comments 
received from 
Afghanistan. No 
comments from India  
 
2. Comments delayed (Agreements with Non Members)    
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- 3 - RTA Name  Date of 
notification  Data due  Data received  Factual 
Presentation 
sent to  
parties  Comments 
due Comments 
received  Status  
 
3. Data delayed (Agreements among Members)  
MERCOSUR -SACU (G)  19.7.2017  11.12.2017  MERCOSUR (27.11.17); 
Data received from Namibia 
on its imports from 
MERCOSUR for 2015;  To be sent    The missing data will be 
sourced from the 
Agreement and the 
WTO-IDB. Factual 
presentation being 
drafted  
El Salvador -Cuba (G)  29.11.2013  24.4.2014  Data from Cuba but 
incomplete     Awaiting data from 
El Salvador and Cuba  
Korea -India (G)  27.9.2010  10.11.2010  Data received from Korea; 
data on preferential tariff 
(2010 -2019) outstanding 
from India     Awaiting data from 
India 
India-Nepal (G)  2.8.2010  20.12.2010  No data received.     Awaiting data from 
India and Nepal  
MERCOSUR -Egypt (G)  19.2.2018  10.7.2018  Data received from Egypt 
and some data from Brazil.  To be sent    The missing data will be 
sourced from 
Agreement and the 
WTO-IDB. Factual 
presentation being 
drafted  
 
4. Data delayed (Agreements with Non Members)  
Egypt accession to COMESA (G)  3.1.2017  6.6.2017  Data received from Egypt, 
Madagascar, Seychelles, 
Zimbabwe,  and trade data 
from Eswatini      The missing data will be 
sourced from the WTO -
IDB, ITC, TradeMap and 
information from the 
Agreement.  
SAFTA -Accession of Afghanistan (G)  29.7.2016  22.12.16  Trade data received from 
Sri Lanka     Awaiting data from 
Afghanistan, 
Bangladesh, Bhutan, 
India, Maldives, Nepal, 
Pakistan and tariff data 
from Sri Lanka  
India-Bhutan (G)  30.6.2008  10.8.2009  No data received; MFN 
tariff and trade data for 
India available in the IDB     Awaiting preferential 
tariff data from India 
and trade and tariff data 
from Bhutan    
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- 4 - RTA Name  Date of 
notification  Data due  Data received  Factual 
Presentation 
sent to  
parties  Comments 
due Comments 
received  Status  
SAFTA (G)  21.4.2008  10.8.2009  Data received from 
Bangladesh     Awaiting data from 
Bhutan, Maldives, 
Nepal, India, Pakistan, 
Sri Lanka  
 
5. Agreements not in force for all parties (Agreements among Members)  
 
6. Agreements not in force for all parties (Agreements with Non -Members)  
Pacific Islands Trade Agreement 
(PICTA)  28.8.2008       Agreement not in force 
for all parties  
 
7. Other  
El Salvador – Ecuador (G)  22.3.2018  30.8.2018   Yes 29 March  2019; 
Spanish on 26 
April 2019   25 April 2019 ; 
comments on 
Spanish version 
by 13  May 
2019 14 May 2019  Comments received. 
Factual presentation will 
be circulated shortly.  
 
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