. /.  RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/BFA/W/203 
12 May 2010 
 
 (10-2717) 
Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration  
  
 
ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES FOR THE 
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 
 
 1. In accordance with its decision of 15 May 2006
1, the General Council of the World Trade 
Organization (WTO) may suspend the application of administrative measures for Members in 
Category IV which agree to, and abide by, a defi ned schedule of instalment payments aimed at 
liquidating all arrears. 
2. To that end, the WTO Secretariat proposed to  the Central African Republic a plan for the 
payment of arrears in instalments based on the following: 
(a) The Central African Republic's arrears at  31 March 2010 amount to CHF 1,125,246.  
This amount corresponds to 31 years of arrears; 
(b) the Central African Republic can benefit from a specific payment mechanism for 
arrears prior to 1988 approved by the General Council in 19942 which allows the 
arrears to be reduced to CHF 828,105.  This represents a saving of CHF 297,141; 
(c) the Central African Republic undertakes to pay, on an annual basis starting in 2010, 
the amount of CHF 26,657 over a period of 30 years; 
 
Number of 
Years Year Instalments Outstanding 
Total arrears as at March 2010 828,105 
Payment of the contribution for 2010 (28,410) 
Total arrears as at 31 December 2009 799,695 
Year 1 2010 (26,657) 773,039 
Year 2 2011 (26,657) 746,382 
Year 3 2012 (26,657) 719,726 
Year 4 2013 (26,657) 693,069 
Year 5 2014 (26,657) 666,413 
Year 6 2015 (26,657) 639,756 
Year 7 2016 (26,657) 613,100 
Year 8 2017 (26,657) 586,443 
Year 9 2018 (26,657) 559,787 
Year 10 2019 (26,657) 533,130 
                                                      
1 See document WT/BFA/86. 
2 See document C/M/273, para. 11. WT/BFA/W/203 
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  Number of 
Years Year Instalments Outstanding 
Year 11 2020 (26,657) 506,474 
Year 12 2021 (26,657) 479,817 
Year 13 2022 (26,657) 453,161 
Year 14 2023 (26,657) 426,504 
Year 15 2024 (26,657) 399,848 
Year 16 2025 (26,657) 373,191 
Year 17 2026 (26,657) 346,535 
Year 18 2027 (26,657) 319,878 
Year 19 2028 (26,657) 293,222 
Year 20 2029 (26,657) 266,565 
Year 21 2030 (26,657) 239,909 
Year 22 2031 (26,657) 213,252 
Year 23 2032 (26,657) 186,596 
Year 24 2033 (26,657) 159,939 
Year 25 2034 (26,657) 133,283 
Year 26 2035 (26,657) 106,626 
Year 27 2036 (26,657) 79,970 
Year 28 2037 (26,657) 53,313 
Year 29 2038 (26,657) 26,657 
Year 30 2039 (26,657) 0 
 
(d) the Central African Republic further undertak es to pay its annual contribution as from 
2010.  Its contribution for 2010 is CHF 28,410; 
(e) the Central African Republic wishes to pay in  four instalments per year.  The total 
annual amount due must be received by the WT O no later than 31 December of each 
year, failing which the administrative measures will be reinstated; 
(f) payments will be booked against the oldest a rrears, starting with the arrears subject to 
the specific payment mechanism. 
3. The WTO Secretariat received a letter of acceptance of the payment plan, including the terms 
set out above, on 1 April 2010. 
4. In accordance with the decision of the General Council of 15 May 2006, the Committee 
on Budget, Finance and Administration recomm ends that the General Council suspend the 
application of administrative measures for th e Central African Republic, which agrees to, and 
undertakes to abide by, a schedule of instalment payments aimed at liquidating all arrears over 
a period of thirty years starting on 1 January 2010.  The payments must be received no later 
than 31 December of each year, failing which the administrative measures will be reinstated . 
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