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Working Party on the Accession of Kazakhstan   
 
  ACCESSION OF KAZAKHSTAN  
REVISED CONSOLIDATED DRAFT SCHEDULE OF TARIFF CONCESSIONS AND 
 COMMITMENTS ON GOODS 
This document (WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/Rev.4) contains the revised Consolidated Draft Schedule of 
Tariff Concessions and Commitments on Goods on the Accession of Kazakhstan.  It updates the previous revised consolidated Draft Goods Schedule of 26 September 2012 contained in 
WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/Rev.3.   
Document WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/Rev.4 was prepared by the WTO Secretariat, pursuant to the 
understanding at the Chairman's Plurilateral Consultations on the Chairman's "Proposal on Ordinary Custom Duties" (JOB/ACC/40) with 29 Signatory Members
1 with negotiated and signed 
Bilateral Market Access Agreements on Goods, depo sited with the Director-General, at the close of 
bilateral market access agreements on the Accession of Kazakhstan in 2012.   
The attached file contains the following:  
1) Revised Consolidated Draft Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments on 
Agricultural Goods of Kazakhstan in HS 2007; and,  
 
2) Revised Consolidated Draft Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments on 
Non-agricultural Goods of Kazakhstan in HS 2007.   
 
As requested by Members, pursuant to the understanding at the Chairman's Plurilateral 
Consultation on 22 July, the Secretariat proceeded,  technically, on the basis of the analysis and 
methodology, stated hereunder:  
3) Linkage and comparison of the revised and Consolidated Draft Goods Schedule of 
Kazakhstan to the Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments on Goods of the 
Russian Federation (Schedule CLXV) in HS 2007;  
 
4) Inclusion of all ITA Tariff Lines;  
 
5) Introduction of the comparison of the Final Bound Rates (FBR) column which shows 
for all 11,821 tariff lines the following flags:  
 
a. "Kz=Rf" where FBR of Kazakhstan is eq ual to the FBR of the RF for 4,923 TL 
(41.65%);  
 
b. "Kz>Rf" where FBR of Kazakhstan is grea ter than the FBR of the RF for 2,780 TL 
(23.52%);  
 
c. "Kz<Rf" where FBR of Kazakhstan is lower than the FBR of the RF for 3,171 TL 
(26.83%); and,  
 
                                               
1 Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Canada; China; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; 
European Union; Georgia; Guatemala;  Honduras; India; Israel; Japan; Korea, Republic of; Kyrgyz Republic; 
Malaysia; Mexico; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of; Switzerland; Chinese Taipei; Turkey; and United States.   WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/Rev.4 
 
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  d. "AVE" where Ad valorem  equivalents are necessary to compare FBRs for 947 TL 
(8.01%).   
 
6) For the 2,780 TLs where the FBR of Kazakhst an is greater than the FBR of the RF: 
 
a. The FBR of Kazakhstan was aligned to the FBR of the RF.   
 
b. The IBR corresponds to the RF current bound rate in 2015.   
 
c. The implementation period, where necessary, was updated using 2015 as the year 
of accession.   
 
7) INRs were updated. 
 
The Delegation of Kazakhstan submitted the Headnotes in this updated Consolidated Draft 
Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments.   
The attached package consists of one Excel file (in English only).  For ease of reference, it is being 
forwarded by electronic mail.   
Technical comments and questions, corrections, and/or requests for clarification, if any, should be 
addressed to any of the following: Ms. Maika Oshikawa; e-mail: Maika.Oshikawa@wto.org ; 
Mr. Mustapha Sekkate ( Mustapha.Sekkate@wto.org ), Mr. Eric Ng Shing ( Eric.NgShing@wto.org ), 
and Ms. Souda Tandara-Stenier ( Souda.Tandara-Stenier@wto.org ) in the Secretariat, no later than 
19 September 2014 at the latest.   
In accordance with WTO Accession practice, a Technical Verification Meeting (TVM) will be 
convened on 24 September 2014, at 10:00 am.  The purpose of the TVM will be for Signatory 
Members, the Delegation of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, to review this updated Consolidated Draft Schedule of Tariff Concession s and Commitments on Goods on the Accession of 
Kazakhstan.  A Convening Notice will be circulated  by the Director of the Accessions Division, who 
will chair this meeting.  Following the TVM, the Second Plurilateral Meeting will be held by the 
Chairman of the Working Party on the Accession  of Kazakhstan on the "Chairman's updated 
Proposal on Ordinary Customs Duties" (to be  issued as document JOB/ACC/40/Rev.1).   
 
  
 
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