WT/COMTD/RTA/W/3  
 
11 November 2019 
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Committee on Trade and Development  
Dedicated Session on Regional Trade Agreements    
 
CONSIDERATION OF REG IONAL TRADE AGREEMEN TS 
STATUS OF THE WORK O F THE DEDICATED SESS ION 
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  From Singapore 
on 25 October 
2019. No 
comments from 
the GCC  No comments received  
from the GCC  
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  
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 all 
parties except 
Cambodia, Lao 
PDR and Viet Nam  Comments received 
from all parties except 
Cambodia, Lao PDR and 
Viet Nam  
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 . No 
comments from 
India Comments received 
from Afghanistan. No 
comments from India  
 
2. Comments delayed (Agreements with Non Members)  
 
3. Data delayed (Agreements among Members)  
        
El Salvador -Cuba (G)  29.11.2013  24.4.2014  Data from Cuba but 
incomplete ; remaining data 
for Cuba to be sourced from 
the LAIA website.     Awaiting data from 
El Salvador ; data for 
Cuba to be sourced from 
the LAIA website  
Korea -India (G)  27.9.2010  10.11.2010  Data received from Korea; 
Some data received from 
India    Awaiting clarification on 
data from India  
India-Nepal (G)  2.8.2010  20.12.2010  No data received.     Awaiting data from India 
and Nepal  
 
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.    
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- 3 - RTA Name  Date of 
notification  Data due  Data received  Factual 
Presentation 
sent to  
parties  Comments 
due Comments 
received  Status  
SAFTA -Accession of Afghanistan (G)  29.7.2016  22.12.16  Trade d ata 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  
SAFTA (G)  21.4.2008  10.8.2009  Some d ata received from 
Bangladesh     Awaiting data from 
Bangladesh, 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  
Morocco -United Arab Emirates Free 
Trade Agreement  19.6.2019  29.11.2019       
Ecuador -Mexico Partial Scope 
Agreement  23.7.2019  14.1.2020       
Mexico -Paraguay Partial Scope 
Agreement  23.7.2019  14.1.2020       
Argentina -Mexico Economic 
Complementarity Agreement  23.7.2019  13.1.2020       
Mexico -Cuba Economic 
Complementarity Agreement  23.7.2019  13.1.2020       
Brazil -Mexico Economic 
Complementarity Agreement  23.7.2019  13.1.2020       
Mexico -Plurinational State of Bolivia 
Economic Complementarity 
Agreement  23.7.2019  14.1.2020       
 
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