. /. RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/MA/TAR/RS/45/Add.1 
10 December 2004 
 
 (04-5436) 
Committee on Market Access Original:   Spanish 
 
 
RECTIFICATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS OF  
URUGUAY ROUND SCHEDULES 
 
Schedule LXXXVII – El Salvador  
 
Addendum  
 
 
 The following communication, dated 21 October 2004, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegation of El Salvador. 
 
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 I refer to document G/MA/TAR/RS/45 concerning rectifications and modifications of 
Uruguay Round schedules (Schedule LXXXVII – El Salvador) presenting a schedule of concessions 
pursuant to paragraph 2 of the Annex to the Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products of 13 December 1996.
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 By the Agreement adopted in the above-mentioned Ministerial Declaration, the parties 
undertook that:  (1) all products listed in the Declaration should be included in its acceptance;  (2) all 
tariff rates for such products should be reduced to  zero;  and (3) all other customs duties and charges 
should be bound at zero also.  In this connection, the ITA clearly defines two types of product covered 
by the Agreement: 
 
 (a) All products classified (or classifiable) with Harmonized System (1996) 
("HS") headings listed in Attachment A to the Annex to the Declaration;  and 
  (b) all products specified in Attachment B to the Annex to the Declaration, whether or 
not they are included in Attachment A. 
 
 A review of the said attachments clearly show s that tariff subheading 8524.32 (discs for laser 
reading systems, for reproducing sound only) is not included in Attachment A to the Annex to the 
Declaration, nor does it correspond to any of the prod ucts described in Attachment B.  In other words, 
the parties to the ITA entered into no tariff reduction  commitment in respect of discs for laser reading 
systems, for reproducing sound only. 
 
 Since El Salvador submitted changes to its tari ff concessions in the context of the ITA, and 
tariff item 8524.32.00 is not included anywhere in  the Agreement, it is clear that El Salvador 
committed an involuntary error in including it in th e schedule of commitments contained in document 
G/MA/TAR/RS/45.  Consequently, the bound level of this tariff item and the other concessions 
should revert to the level contained in the corresponding bound tariff commitments, in accordance 
with the results of the Uruguay Round trade negotiations. 
                                                     
 
1 It should be pointed out that this Schedule will enter into force for my country once the internal 
formalities for ratification by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador have been completed. G/MA/TAR/RS/45/Add.1 
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 In view of these considerations, we hereby re quest that the following paragraph be added to 
document G/MA/TAR/RS/45 referred to above: 
 
 "4. Elimination of tariff line 8524.32.00, which was included in our Schedule by 
involuntary error." 
 
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   If no objection is notified to the Secretariat within three months from the date of this 
document, the rectifications and modifications to Schedule LXXXVII – El Salvador will be deemed to 
be approved and will be formally certified. 
 
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