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WT/WGTTT/M/47  
 
16 December 2014  
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Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology 
Forty-Seventh Session    
 
 NOTE ON THE MEETING OF 4 NOVEMBER 2014 
Chairperson: Mr. Ismael Ortiz Fernández (Mexico)1 
 
A. ADOPTION OF TH E AGENDA .................................................................................... 1  
B. ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRADE AND TRANSFER OF 
TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................... 1 
C. ANY POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATIONS ON STEPS THAT MIGHT BE TAKEN 
WITHIN THE MANDATE OF THE WTO TO INCREASE FLOWS OF TECHNOLOGY TO 
DEVELOPING CO UNTRIES ................................................................................................ 2  
D. OTHER BUSINESS .................................................................................................... 2  
 
 
1. The Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology held its 47th formal meeting on 
4 November 2014. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Ismael Ortiz Fernández of Mexico in the 
absence of the current Chairman Dr. Abdolazeez S. Al-Otaibi (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). 
A. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA  
2. The agenda contained in Airgram WTO/AIR/4378 of 20 October 2014 was adopted. 
B. ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRADE AND TRANSFER OF 
TECHNOLOGY  
3. At the outset, the Chairman recalled some of the salient themes that had emerged from the 
one-day workshop on technology transfer organized on 16 June 2014 by the Secretariat. He also 
recalled that at the 46th session of the Working Group, held  back-to-back with the workshop, 
Members had engaged in a useful interaction on these themes. They had found the deliberations in the workshop productive and useful as experts from across the globe provided different 
perspectives on the technology transfer debate and, hence, deepened their insight into various 
underlying issues, factors and actors that surround the complexity of this issue.  
4. The Chairman felt that at the last meeting of  the Working Group, Members had little time to 
reflect and analyse various emerging issues surf acing in the workshop and that the intervening 
period between the last meeting and the 47
th Session would have provided them with enough time 
for further reflection on these issues.  
5. The Chairman offered the floor to Members to express themselves on these elements, as 
well as on any other issues that could help to shed light on the nexus between trade and transfer 
of technology. No Member took the floor. 
 
                                               
1 The meeting was chaired by Mr. Ismael Ortiz Fern ández (Mexico), who stood in for the Chairman of 
the Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technolo gy, H.E. Dr. Abdolazeez S. Al-Otaibi (Kingdom of 
Saudi Arabia). Ambassador Al-Otaibi was unable to be present, and had requested Mr. Ismael Ortiz Fernández 
to chair the 47th Session of the Working Group on Tr ade and Transfer of Technology.  WT/WGTTT/M/47 
 
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  C. ANY POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATIONS ON STEPS THAT MIGHT BE TAKEN WITHIN 
THE MANDATE OF THE WTO TO INCREASE FLOWS OF TECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 
6. Under this agenda item, the Chairman stated  that Members had discussed, for quite some 
time, the room document titled "Facilitating A ccess to Information on Appropriate Technology 
Sourcing – A step to increase flows of technolo gy to developing countries", tabled by India, 
Pakistan and the Philippines. He also recalled that in the past few meetings, the proponents had 
informed the Working Group that they were consolid ating the room document so as to table it as a 
formal submission at one of the future meetings of the Working Group. He hoped that the deliberations that had taken place in the Workshop on Technology Transfer in June 2014 would have helped the proponents to reformulate their prospective submission.  
7. The Chairman then opened the floor asking th e proponents to inform the Working Group on 
the status of their work on the intended formal su bmission and on the possible timing of its tabling 
in the Working Group. No Member made any intervention.  
D. OTHER BUSINESS 
8. No matter was raised under other business. However, the Chairman shared his thoughts on 
the annual draft report 2014 that the Working Group is mandated to make to the General Council. 
 
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