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Reference:    WLI/100         4 May 2006 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT 
DONE AT MARRAKESH ON 15 APRIL 1994 
 
CERTIFICATION OF MODIFICATIONS TO THE AGREEMENT 
 
TRANSMISSION OF CERTIFIED TR UE COPIES OF REPLACEMENT PAGES
 
IN THE LOOSE-LEAF SYSTEM  FOR APPENDICES CONTAINING  
THE CERTIFIED MODIFICATIONS TO THE AGREEMENT  
 
 
 I have the honour to furnish herewith a certifi ed true copy of replacement page 3/5 of Annex 1 
to Appendix I containing the certified modification. 
 
 The modification concerns the United States  and is effective as of 22 March 2006 . 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
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AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT 
DONE AT MARRAKESH ON 15 APRIL 1994 
 
CERTIFICATION OF MODIFICATIONS TO THE AGREEMENT 
 
  It is hereby certified that the modification to  Annex 1 to Appendix I of the Agreement on 
Government Procurement (1994) concerning the United States , which was notified to the Committee 
on Government Procurement (GPA/MOD/USA/4) pursu ant to the procedures of Article XXIV:6, 
became effective as of 22 March 2006 . 
 
 Pursuant to the Decision of the Commi ttee on Government Procurement adopted on 
4 June 1996 regarding the establishment of a loose-le af system with legal effect to periodically update 
the Appendices to the Agreement on Government  Procurement (GPA/M/2) and procedures with 
respect to the modifications to the loose-leaf syst em (GPA/M/5), this modification is contained in the 
attached replacement page to the loose-leaf sy stem.  Accordingly, the attached page replaces 
page 3/5 of Annex 1 to Appendix I of the  United States in the Loose-Leaf System of Appendices in 
conformity with the aforementioned Decisions. 
 
 This notification is furnished in accordance with paragraph 14 of Article XXIV of the Agreement. 
 
 This Certification is deposited with the Direct or-General of the World Trade Organization, who 
shall promptly furnish a certified true copy to each party to the Agreement on Government 
Procurement.  It shall be registered in accordance with  the provisions of Article 102 of the Charter of 
the United Nations.  
 Done at Geneva this seventh day of April, two thousand and six. 
  
 
  
 
 Pascal Lamy  
 
 
Certified true copy: 
  
 
  
 
  
Director-General 
 
APPENDIX I UNITED STATES  ANNEX 1 Page 3/5
 
 
22 March 2006 (WT/Let/537) 
 68. National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities 
69. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission 
70. Office of Government Ethics 
71. Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator 72. Office of Special Counsel 73. Small Business Administration 74. Susquehanna River Basin Commission 
75. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation 
76. Federal Prison Industries, Inc. 
77. Government National Mortgage Association 78. Uranium Enrichment Corporation 79. Department of Defense, including the Corps of Army Engineers  
This Agreement will not apply to the followi ng purchases of the Department of Defense: 
 (a) Federal Supply Classification (FSC) 83 - all el ements of this classifi cation other than pins, 
needles, sewing kits, flagstaffs, fla gpoles, and flagstaff trucks; 
(b) FSC 84 - all elements othe r than sub-class 8460 (luggage); 
(c) FSC 89 - all elements other th an sub-class 8975 (tobacco products); 
(d) FSC 2310 - (buses only); (e) Speciality metals, defined as steels melted in steel manufacturing facilities  located in the United 
States or its possessions, wh ere the maximum alloy content exceeds one or more of the 
following limits, must be used in products purch ased by DOD:  (1) manganese, 1.65 per cent; 
silicon, 0.60 per cent; or copper, 0.06 per cent; or which contains mo re than 0.25 per cent of any 
of the following elements: aluminium, chromium, cobalt, columbium, olybdenum, nickel, titanium, tungsten, or vanadium;  (2) metal allo ys consisting of nickel, iron-nickel and cobalt 
base alloys containing a total of other alloying metals (except iron) in excess of 10 per cent;  
(3) titanium and titanium alloys;  or (4) zirconium base alloys; 
(f) FSC 19 and 20 - that part of these classificatio ns defined as naval vessels or major components 
of the hull or superstructure thereof; 
(g) FSC 5l and 52; (h) Following FSC categories are not generally co vered due to application of Article XXIII, 
paragraph 1:  10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 28, 31, 58, 59, 95. 
 
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