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G/MA/M/61  
 
14 September 2015  
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Committee on Market Access   
 
 MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE ON MARKET ACCESS  
4 JUNE 2015 
VICE-CHAIRMAN: MR SEBASTIÁN ORTIZ (PARAGUAY) 
Subjects discussed                   Pages 
A. INTRODUCTION OF HARMONIZED SYSTEM 1996 (HS96) CHANGES TO 
SCHEDULES OF CONCESSIONS (L/6905 AN D WT/L/756) - STATUS REPORT ................... 1  
B. INTRODUCTION OF HARMONIZED SYSTEM 2002 (HS02) CHANGES TO 
SCHEDULES OF CONCESSIONS USING THE CTS DATABASE (WT/L/605 AND WT/L/807) - STATUS REPORT ......................................................................................... 2
 
C. INTRODUCTION OF HARMONIZED SYSTEM 2007 (HS07) CHANGES TO 
SCHEDULES OF CONCESSIONS USING THE CTS DATABASE (WT/L/673 AND 
WT/L/830) - STATUS REPORT ......................................................................................... 2  
D. INTRODUCTION OF HARMONIZED SYSTEM 2012 (HS2012) CHANGES TO 
SCHEDULES OF CONCESSIONS USING THE CTS DATABASE (WT/L/831) - STATUS 
REPORT ............................................................................................................................ 2  
E. OPERATION OF THE INTEGRATED DATA  BASE (IDB), INCLUDING STATUS 
OF SUBMISSIONS (G/MA/IDB/2/REV.41), AND THE CTS DATABASE - STATUS 
REPORT ............................................................................................................................ 3  
IDB Submissions ............................................................................................................... 3  
F. NOTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO THE DECISION ON NOTIFICATION 
PROCEDURES FOR QUANTITATIVE RE STRICTIONS (G/L /59/REV.1) ............................... 3  
2012-2014 NOTIFI CATIONS ............................................................................................... 3  
2014-2016 NOTIFI CATIONS ............................................................................................... 4  
G.  DRAFT DECISION DERESTRICTING THE BILATERAL NEGOTIATING MATERIAL 
OF THE TOKYO ROUN D (G/MA/W/115) ........................................................................... 6  
H.  KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN - CUSTOMS DUTIES ON CIGARETTES – STATEMENT 
BY SWITZE RLAND ............................................................................................................ 7  
I.  PAKISTAN - DISCRIMINATORY TAXES - STATEMENT BY THE EUROPEAN 
UNION ......................................................................................................................... .... 7 
J.  SITUATION OF SCHEDULES OF WTO MEMBERS (G/MA/W/23/REV.11) ....................... 8  
K.  OTHER BUSINESS ........................................................................................................ 8  
L.  ELECTION OF THE CHAIRPERSON ................................................................................ 8  
The Committee adopted the agenda as reproduced in WTO/AIR/MA/1, with the inclusion of the 
following item under Other Business: "Date of the next meeting." An annotated agenda was 
circulated in JOB/MA/119.  
A. INTRODUCTION OF HARMONIZED SYSTEM 1996 (HS96) CHANGES TO SCHEDULES 
OF CONCESSIONS (L/6905 AND WT/L/756) - STATUS REPORT  
1.1.  The Chairman recalled that there were two procedures which had been used by Members to 
introduce HS96 changes to schedules of concessions. The general procedure contained in GATT G/MA/M/61 
 
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  document L/6905 dated October 1991 and the specific one contained in WTO document WT/L/756 
dated 29 May 2009.  Under the first one, Members had to transpose their own schedules, whereas under the second one the Secretariat had transposed the schedules of 64 developing countries and LDCs. 
1.2.  There were three Members whose HS96 files remained to be finalized namely Bangladesh, 
South Africa and Venezuela. In the case of Bangladesh, contact had recently been resumed 
between the delegation and the Secretariat.  In th e case of South Africa, questions were raised by 
a delegation concerning the changes in the binding of some tariff lines in HS chapters 4, 33 and 
35.   In the case of Venezuela, the next step continued to be the organization of a meeting or a video conference between the Secretariat and the relevant Venezuelan authorities so that they could review the revised documentation sent by the Secretariat to Venezuela in 2012.   
1.3.  The Committee took note of the report.  
B. INTRODUCTION OF HARMONIZED SYSTEM 2002 (HS02) CHANGES TO SCHEDULES 
OF CONCESSIONS USING THE CTS DATABASE (WT/L/605 AND WT/L/807) - STATUS 
REPORT  
1.4.  A member of the Secretariat (Mr. Jurgen Rich tering) noted that a revised full report had been 
issued as JOB/MA/42/Rev.14 on 14 April 2015. The status of the HS02 transposition after the 
multilateral review held on 23 April 2015 was the following; 110 HS02 files had been certified; one 
HS02 file had been approved in multilateral review; five HS02 files had been released for multilateral review and had comments from other Members; one draft HS02 file had been completed and sent to Members for their first review; and one Member had circulated its schedule 
in HS 2002. Finally, 14 Members had not been affected by the transposition as the schedule at the 
time of their accession had been either in HS02 (seven Members) or in HS07 (seven Members). 
1.5.  The Committee took note of the Secretariat report.  
C. INTRODUCTION OF HARMONIZED SYSTEM 2007 (HS07) CHANGES TO SCHEDULES 
OF CONCESSIONS USING THE CTS DATABASE (WT/L/673 AND WT/L/830) - STATUS REPORT  
1.6.  A member of the Secretariat (Mr. Jurgen Richtering) stated that a revised full report had 
been issued as JOB/MA/104/Rev.8 on 14 April 2015.  The status of the HS07 transposition after 
the multilateral review held on 23 April 2015 was the following: 83 HS07 files had been certified; 13 HS07 files had their transposition approved in the multilateral review process; five HS07 files 
had been released for multilateral review and had comments from other Members; nine draft HS07 
file had been completed and sent to Members for their first review; and 15 draft HS07 files 
remained to be prepared. Finally, seven Members had not been affected by the transposition as 
the schedule at the time of their accession was in the HS07 nomenclature. 
1.7.  The Committee took note of the Secretariat report.  
D. INTRODUCTION OF HARMONIZED SYSTEM 2012 (HS2012) CHANGES TO 
SCHEDULES OF CONCESSIONS USING THE CTS DATABASE (WT/L/831) - STATUS 
REPORT  
1.8.  A member of the Secretariat (Mr. Jurgen Richtering) noted that as work was on-going on the 
HS07 transposition the only information to report under this item was that the Secretariat had 
received the submission of the United States for the HS2012 transposition.   
1.9.  The Committee took note of the Secretariat report.  G/MA/M/61 
 
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  E. OPERATION OF THE INTEGRATED DATA BASE (IDB), INCLUDING STATUS OF 
SUBMISSIONS (G/MA/IDB/2/REV.41), AND THE CTS DATABASE - STATUS REPORT 
IDB Submissions 
1.10.  The Chairperson drew the Committee's attention to document G/MA/IDB/2/Rev.41, which 
contained the status of submissions to the IDB.   1.11.  A member of the Secretariat (Mr. Jurgen Richtering) stated that since the circulation of the 
Status of Submissions document the Secretariat had received the following submissions: Egypt 
MFN tariff for 2015 and its COMESA preferences;  Morocco MFN tariff for 2015 and preferences; 
Qatar imports for 2012; Bahrain imports for 2012 and 2013; Norway imports for 2013; Indonesia imports for 2014; and Israel imports for 2014. 
1.12.  On IDB dissemination, the database contained 1,903 country-periods covering all WTO 
Members and six acceding countries (Algeria; Bahamas; Belarus; Iran; Liberia; and Serbia). 
Data was available on the IDB website. 
1.13.  With respect to technical assistance in co nnection with the IDB, he noted that the following 
technical assistance (TA) activities had taken pl ace since the last meeting of the Committee in 
2014: Regional Trade Policy Courses for Arab and Middle Eastern countries, Caribbean countries and English speaking countries in Africa; and the Advanced Trade Policy Course in English in 
Geneva.  
1.14.  The Secretariat also noted that there were  132 files in the new CTS formats (described in 
G/MA/244), which were available on the Members' website. Out of these 132 CTS files, 92 were 
available in HS07 and 32 in HS02. The remaining eight were still in the HS1996 nomenclature and 
based on the previous CTS format. Their files woul d be updated to the new format once their HS02 
changes had been certified. 
1.15.  The Committee took note of the Secretariat report.  
F. NOTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO THE DECISION ON NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES 
FOR QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS (G/L/59/REV.1) 
1.16.  The Chairman noted there were two issues to discuss under this agenda item: 1) the review 
of notifications received; and 2) the status of notifications. With respect to the review of 
notifications, he recalled that Paragraph 1 of the QR Decision provided that notifications would be 
automatically placed in the agenda of the Committee.  He announced that seven notifications had been received in 2015, five of which had been  submitted after the informal meeting of the 
Committee of 9 March 2015. Besides the new notifications, there was one outstanding notification 
from the previous meeting of the Committee, as well as one notification which stemmed from the 2012-2014 biennial period and several others from the 2014-2016 biennial period. 
- Russian Federation (G/MA/QR/N/RUS/2)  
1.17.  The Chairman noted that, at the last m eeting, the representative of Switzerland had 
requested more time to review the notification by the Russian Federation (G/MA/QR/N/RUS/2). 
1.18.  The Committee took note of the notification. 
2012-2014 NOTIFICATIONS 
- China (G/MA/QR/N/CHN/1 and G/MA/QR/N/CHN/2) 
 
1.19.  The Chairman drew the Committee's attentio n to the notifications by China circulated in 
G/MA/QR/N/CHN/1 and G/MA/QR/N/CH N/2.  Additional information was provided by China for the 
years 2010 and 2011 under the previous procedure, which had been announced in document 
G/MA/NTM/QR/1/Add.13. G/MA/M/61 
 
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  1.20.  The representative of Switzerland thanked China for the notifications. In his delegation's 
understanding, document G/L/59/Rev.1 required biennial notifications, but it seemed that the 
Chinese notifications only covered 2012. He therefore asked China to clarify why 2013 was not covered.  
1.21.  The representative of China clarified that  three notifications had been submitted for the 
period 2010 to 2014.  
1.22.  The Committee took note of the notifications.  
2014-2016 NOTIFICATIONS - Australia
 (G/MA/QR/N/AUS/2) 
 1.23.  The Chairman drew the Committee's attention to the notification by Australia circulated in 
G/MA/QR/N/AUS/2.   
1.24.  The Committee took note of the notification.  
- Canada (G/MA/QR/N/CAN/2) 
 
1.25.  The Chairman drew the Committee's attention to the notification by Canada circulated in 
G/MA/QR/N/CAN/2. 
1.26.  The Committee took note of the notification. 
- China (G/MA/QR/N/CHN/3) 
 1.27.  The Chairman drew the Committee's attention to the notification by China circulated in 
G/MA/QR/N/CHN/3. 
1.28.  The representative of the United States indicated that his delegation had a detailed technical 
question, which had been submitted to Ch ina prior to the meeting. In document 
G/MA/QR/N/CHN/3, China had identified export quotas that it continued to maintain on numerous 
industrial raw materials, including natural sand (QR No.11); magnesium sand, talc, tin and its products, indium and its products (QR No.17); antimony and its products, and coal (QR No.18). 
For such export quotas, China had listed Article XX of the GATT 1994 as its WTO justification. To 
date, the United States and other WTO Members had brought two WTO cases successfully challenging export quotas maintained by China on several other industrial raw materials. In those cases, namely "China — Measures Related to the Exportation of Various Raw Materials" (DS394; 
DS 395; and DS398); and "China — Measures Related to the Exportation of Rare Earths, Tungsten 
and Molybdenum" (DS431; DS432; and DS433), China had raised Article XX:(b) and Article XX:(g) of the GATT 1994 as defences, but the WTO panels and the Appellate Body had rejected them. He 
therefore asked China to indicate for each industri al raw material identified above which paragraph 
of Article XX it was invoking as a WTO justification. To the extent that China's WTO justification was Article XX:(b) or Article XX:(g) of the GATT 1994 for a particular industrial raw material, he 
asked China to explain why it believed that the justification remained viable in light of the rulings 
made by the WTO in the two above-mentioned cases. 
1.29.  The representative of China thanked the Un ited States for the question. She acknowledged 
that the question had been received a few minutes before the meeting, so it would be submitted to 
capital and the answer provided as soon as possible. 
1.30.  The Committee agreed to revert to this notification at the next meeting. 
- Japan (G/MA/QR/N/JPN/2) 
1.31.  The Chairman drew the Committee's attention to the notification by Japan circulated in 
G/MA/QR/N/JPN/2. G/MA/M/61 
 
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  1.32.  The representative of Switzerland aske d Japan to provide more detailed information 
regarding the product coverage of QR No.9 entitl ed "non-automatic licences for exports of others" 
as it was not possible to identify the products cove red on the basis of the information provided.    
1.33.  The representative of Japan replied that th ey would answer Switzerland's question as soon 
as possible.  
1.34.  The Committee agreed to revert to this notification at the next meeting. 
- Lao, PDR (G/MA/QR/N/LAO/1) 
1.35.  The Chairman drew the Committee's attention to the notification by Lao, PDR circulated in 
G/MA/QR/N/LAO/1. 
1.36.  The Committee took note of the notification. 
- Philippines (G/MA/QR/N/PHL/1) 
1.37.  The Chairman drew the Committee's attent ion to the notification by the Philippines 
circulated in G/MA/QR/N/PHL/1. 
1.38.  The representative of Switzerland asked the Philippines to provide more detailed information 
about QR No.11 covered by Presidential Decree No. 34, particularly with regard to the product 
coverage. 
1.39.  The representative of the Philippines replied th at they had tried to indicate in the notification 
the HS code of the products covered by each meas ure.  However, they had not been successful for 
this particular QR.  Her delegation would try to get more input from capital about this specific QR. She also thanked the Secretariat for the assistance  which had been provided in the preparation of 
notification. At the informal meeting of the Comm ittee, it had been observed that most of the 
notifications included "various" under product coverage but, thanks to the Secretariat's assistance, 
the Philippines had been able to identify some of the HS codes and even add more information on the specific products covered.  
1.40.  The Committee agreed to revert to this notification at the next meeting. 
- Singapore (G/MA/QR/N/SGP/2) 
1.41.  The Chairman drew the Committee's attention to the notification by Singapore circulated in 
G/MA/QR/N/SGP/2. 1.42.  The Committee took note of the notification. 
- Chinese Taipei (G/MA/QR/N/TPKM/1/ADD.1) 1.43.  The Chairman drew the Committee's attention to the notification by Chinese Taipei 
circulated in G/MA/QR/N/TPKM/1/Add.1. 1.44.  The Committee took note of the notification. 
1.45.  With respect to the status of notifications, the Chairman drew the Members' attention to 
document G/MA/W/114 entitled "Quantitative Restrictions: Factual Information on Notifications 
Received". A first draft of this report had been circulated by fax and discussed at the informal meeting of the Committee of 9 March 2015. At that  meeting, Members had considered it a useful 
document, and requested the Secretariat to update and circulate it for the formal meeting.  The 
new version of the document included factual information on the notifications that had been received to date, with the exception of the notification of Côte d'Ivoire, which had accidentally been omitted. He asked Members to agree to the inclusion of the notification of Côte d'Ivoire in a 
future revised version of the document. G/MA/M/61 
 
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  1.46.  According to the Secretariat report, only 28 Members had made a QR notification under the 
new procedures (counting the European Union as  one), which meant that more than 100 Members 
still needed to notify for the first time.  The Chairman encouraged Members to work with their 
capitals towards notifying as soon as possible and recalled that the Secretariat was ready to 
provide assistance in case needed.  He believed the new report would assist Members in preparing 
their notifications. 
1.47.  The Chairman also noted that Annex 1 to the fax convening the informal meeting of 9 March 
had provided information on the five main difficulties that Members appeared to be facing in 
complying with the notification requirement.  These included: 1) the wrong impression that 
notifying a QR was equivalent to admitting a violation of Article XI of the GATT; 2) lack of clarity on what types of measures should be notified ; 3) duplication of notification requirements; 
4) lengthy and complex process in capital to comply with this notification requirement; and 5) the 
low compliance presented itself an incentive not to notify.  He noted there could obviously be more factors involved, but Members seemed to agree at the meeting that these were the main ones. 
1.48.  The representative of the Philippines than ked the Secretariat for preparing a very helpful 
document. She considered that the document could be updated at least once a year so that 
Members had an overall idea of the status of notifications. 
1.49.  The representative of Chinese Taipei than ked the Secretariat for a useful document, which 
would help Members submit correct notifications. He noted that Chinese Taipei had submitted a QR 
notification for the period 2014-2106 on 29 September 2014, as well as an addendum in September 2014.  The addendum should also be  reflected in the Annex to the document.   
1.50.  The representative of the European Union observed that, despite some improvements, there 
were still very few Members who had notified their QRs in force. Without expanding too much on 
the importance of transparency as a key aspect of the WTO, he recalled that the EU had been 
raising notification compliance issues in severa l other committees and urging Members to submit 
their notifications on time. The lack of notifications had a huge impact in terms of lack of transparency and legal certainty, and it was impo rtant to know whether Members had fulfilled their 
obligations in terms of WTO commitments. He, therefore, urged Members to make an effort and 
notify their QRs.  He also thanked the Secretariat for preparing a valuable support. In this regard, he noted that a certain degree of inconsistency still characterized notifications made by Members, despite the informal meeting held in March. In this respect, the EU proposed to organize a 
dedicated session on QR notifications during the workshop on Import Licensing notifications that 
Members had agreed to hold in October back-to-back with the Import Licensing Committee meeting. This would be justified as the most common type of measure notified across all 
provisions was non-automatic licensing procedures. If Members agreed to this proposal, the EU 
stood ready to collaborate with the Secretariat and with other Members to organize this dedicated session. Furthermore, as it had been discussed at the informal meeting in March, the EU was also 
willing to work with other Members and the Secretariat on best practices on notifications.  
1.51.  The Committee took note of the statemen ts and agreed to the proposal by the EU.  
G.  DRAFT DECISION DERESTRICTING THE BILATERAL NEGOTIATING MATERIAL OF THE 
TOKYO ROUND (G/MA/W/115) 
1.52.  The Chairman recalled that the Committee, at its formal meeting on 22 October 2014, had 
adopted the procedures contained in document JOB/MA/112.  Pursuant to these procedures, 
Members had six months from the date of the document (14 October 2014) to review their 
negotiating material and to notify the Secretaria t of any document which they considered should 
remain restricted for a further period of time.  The procedures also envisaged that open-ended 
informal consultations would be held in May 2014 to  consider a draft decision that would propose 
the general derestriction in the near future of all the documents listed in the annex to document 
JOB/MA/112. Since no comments had been submitted, it had not been necessary to organize an informal meeting, and a draft Decision had been circulated in G/MA/W/115. The draft Decision was 
practically the same as the one adopted for the derestriction of materials in the Kennedy Round 
(G/MA/W/113). The Chairman proposed to forward the draft decision contained in G/MA/W/115 to 
the Council for Trade in Goods for transmittal to the General Council for adoption. G/MA/M/61 
 
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  1.53.  The representative of the European Union informed Members that their internal review was 
still ongoing, so further time was required. The EU would inform the Secretariat as soon as the 
internal process had been completed.  
1.54.  The Chairman asked whether the Committee could adopt the decision on an ad referendum  
basis, with two months for objections.   
1.55.  The Committee so agreed. 
H.  KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN - CUSTOMS DUTIES ON CIGARETTES – STATEMENT BY 
SWITZERLAND 
1.56.  The representative of Switzerland recalled  that the issue of customs duties on cigarettes 
levied by the Kingdom of Bahrain had been raised previously.  Bahrain applied a tariff of 100% on 
cigarettes despite having a bound rate of 35% in its WTO schedule. Switzerland had already raised 
this issue with Bahrain on several occasions, including bilaterally, at the CTG, and in previous 
meetings of the Market Access Committee. At the CTG meeting of 17 November 2014, Switzerland had reminded Bahrain that specific procedures should be followed to address situations of this 
kind, and in particular Article XXVIII of the GATT.  Switzerland had also encouraged Bahrain to 
work in that direction. With this background, he asked two questions: 1) what actions had been taken by Bahrain since the beginning of the year to solve the situation?; and 2) what next steps 
were foreseen by Bahrain in order to comply with its WTO obligations?  
1.57.  The representative of the Kingdom of Ba hrain thanked Switzerland for its statement. He 
explained that the discrepancy between bound and applied rate was the result of an oversight 
during Bahrain's accession to the WTO. The intentio n had been to bind all tariffs at 35%, with the 
exception of tobacco and alcohol products, which were intended to be bound at 100% and 135%, 
respectively. More specifically the intention had been to bind the entire HS Chapter 24 for tobacco products at 100%, but the schedule had only bound HS heading 24.01 at 100%, which had 
accidentally left HS headings 24.02 and 24.03 bound at 35%. He thanked Switzerland for bringing 
this issue to Bahrain's attention and for its bilateral cooperation. He confirmed that Bahrain had submitted a notification under paragraph 5 of GATT Article XXVIII, reserving the right to modify its 
schedule.  Bahrain was in the process of preparin g the full Article XXVIII notification, which would 
hopefully rectify the error and bring Bahrain's practices in line with its WTO commitments.  
1.58.  The representative of the European Union expressed satisfaction with Bahrain's engagement 
to solve the issue.  
1.59.  The Committee took note of the statements.  
I.  PAKISTAN - DISCRIMINATORY TAXES - STATEMENT BY THE EUROPEAN UNION 
1.60.  The representative of the European Unio n expressed concern over what appeared to be 
discriminatory taxation by Pakistan between imported products and like domestic products. More 
specifically, Pakistan's "Statutory Regulatory Or der (SRO) 1125" related to domestic sales taxes 
covering a large number of products destined for both industrial use and retail sale. Such 
regulatory order had been amended several time s in 2013 and 2014.  The result had been that 
imported finished goods ready for use by the general public were charged a sales tax of 17%, while like locally manufactured goods in retail sale were charged a tax of 5%.  EU companies had complained about this discriminatory treatment wh ich had negatively affected their exports to 
Pakistan, and in particular on leather, leather articles and leather footwear.  All these products had 
seen their export figures decrease between 2013  and 2014, which contrasted with the overall 
increase of EU exports to Pakistan. The EU had raised these concerns bilaterally with Pakistan in a 
large number of occasions without receiving any meaningful response to date. The EU had also 
expressed these concerns during Pakistan's recent Trade Policy Review, where other WTO Members had also raised questions regarding the non-transparent and almost impenetrable web of 
tax and tariff concessions and preferences granted through a multitude of SROs. During the Trade 
Policy Review, the EU had welcomed Pakistan's co mmitment to establish a simplified and broader 
tax regime and, in that context, to eliminate the SROs.  Unfortunately this process would take until 
June 2017. Additionally, Pakistan had not provided any specific information regarding its plans and 
intentions regarding the elimination of SROs despite a multitude of questions from the EU and G/MA/M/61 
 
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  other WTO Members. The EU requested Pakistan to provide detailed information on what actions 
would be taken to ensure that any discriminatory treatment of imported finished goods in the application of its sales taxes be removed, and to explain why Pakistan considered that such treatment was not contrary to its obligations under Article III:2 of the GATT 1994. 
1.61.  The representative of the United States indicated that this issue was of long-time concern to 
his delegation.  Pakistan’s recourse to Statutory Regulatory Orders disproportionally increased the 
price on certain imported items by means of a sales tax, which resulted in a much greater price for 
imported items than on domestic items.  The Unit ed States had raised the issue with Pakistan on 
several occasions, but had not been advised as to when this practice would cease . 
1.62.  The delegation of Canada echoed the comments from the European Union and the United 
States. Canada had a systemic interest on this issue and looked forward to learning more from 
Pakistan.  
1.63.  The representative of Japan stated that they would continue to pay close attention to 
Pakistan's policy on this issue.  
1.64.  The representative of Switzerland expresse d concerns of a systemic nature and encouraged 
Pakistan to provide more information on this issue so as to have a better understanding.  
1.65.  The Committee took note of the statements and agreed to revert to this item at the next 
meeting.  J.  SITUATION OF SCHEDULES OF  WTO MEMBERS (G/MA/W/23/REV.11) 
1.66.  The Chairman drew Members' attention to a document prepared by the Secretariat 
concerning the current status of schedules whic h had been circulated in G/MA/W/23/Rev.11. Its 
usefulness derived from the fact that it compiled, in a single document, all the legal instruments 
relating to each Member's schedule.  It also prov ided an overview of the procedures that remained 
outstanding and, in particular, a number of renegotiations under Article XXVIII where there had 
been no information for many years. He encouraged each Member to use this document as a guide 
to make sure that any pending issues were resolved. 
1.67.  The Committee took note of document G/MA/W/23/Rev.11.  
K.  OTHER BUSINESS 1.68.  The next date of the Committee had provisionally been scheduled for 29 September 2015 
and the HS informal multilateral review session for 7 July 2015.  
L.  ELECTION OF THE CHAIRPERSON 
1.69.  The Committee elected Ms Krizia Matthews (Panama) as Chairperson. 
 
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