G/TFA/N/LCA/1/Add.4  
 
23 August 2023  
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Committee on Trade Facilitation  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION OF CATEGORY COMMITMENTS  
UNDER THE AGREEMENT ON TRADE FACILITATION  
COMMUNICATION FROM SAINT LUCIA  
Addendum  
The following communication, dated 21 August 2023 , is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Saint Lucia . 
 
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Following up from the notification dated 2 September 2022 ( G/TFA/N/LCA/1/Add. 3), Saint Lucia 
hereby submits the following notifications:  
 
1) Extension of implementation dates; and  
2) Shifting of categories  with extended implementation date.  
 
  
  G/TFA/N/LCA/1/Add.4  
 
- 2 - 1. The Government of Saint Lucia  hereby submits a request for an eighteen -month extension of the previously notified definitive date of implementation for the 
following Category C designated provision  in response to  Article  17 of the Trade Facilitation Agreement  (WT/L/931):  
 
Article  Heading/  
Description  Previously notified 
definitive date for 
implementation  New definitive date 
for implementation 
requested  Reasons for extension  
10.4 Single Window  31 December 2023  30 June 2025  The technical assistance and capacity building including financial support to obtain the necessary 
IT system notified as  a requirement for implementation of this measure has not been secured. 
As it relates to progress to date, the Government of Saint Lucia has been successful in securing 
the services of a Consultant under the Canada -CARICOM Expert Deployment Initiative to d evelop 
the technical specifications for its National Electronic Single Window. The technical work in this 
respect is still ongoing. The information is critical to redefining the scope of the platform to be 
implemented, costing the project, and in determini ng the level of external assistance and capacity 
building support that would be required for the successful implementation of the measure.  
 
 
2.  Saint Lucia also wishes to request  that the following provision be shifted from category B to category C and that the previously notified definitive implementation 
date be extended by eighteen -months , in response to Articles 19 and 17 of the TFA respectively:  
 
Article  Heading/  
Description  Previous 
category 
designation  New category 
designation  Previ ously notified 
definitive date for 
implementation  New definitive 
date for 
implementation 
requested  Reasons for extension  
7.7 Authorized 
operators  B C 29 December 2023  29 June 2025  An internal assessment revealed that additional time as well as 
external support is required for the development and successful 
roll-out of an Authorized Operator programme. More 
specifically, the legislative and regulatory framework has  to be 
further developed to take into account  new processes and 
procedures, as well  as the need for mutual recognition 
agreements. External assistance is also required to: (i) build 
the capacity of customs officials; and (ii) to develop awareness 
programmes aimed at enhancing the cooperation of potential 
operators in the sharing of confi dential information critical to 
the process, and to ultimately improve the uptake of the 
programme.  
 
 
Saint Lucia remains committed to undertaking the necessary trade facilitation reforms . 
 
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