. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/COMTD/51/Add.5 
18 May 2007 
 (07-2039) 
Committee on Trade and Development Original:   English 
  
FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT ON COMPRE HENSIVE ECONOMIC COOPERATION 
BETWEEN THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATIONS  
AND THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 
 
Communication from the Parties to the Agreement
 
 
Addendum  
  
 The following communication dated 11 May 20 07 has been received from the United States, 
and is being circulated at its request. 
 
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QUESTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES CONCERNING THE CHINA-ASEAN  
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 
 
  The United States appreciates the efforts to answer our questions contained in document 
WT/COMTD/51/Add.3.  We have no new questions  on the China-ASEAN Framework Agreement or 
the Agreement on Trade in Goods.  We ask the Parti es to provide more fulsome and direct answers to 
our previous questions.   
 1. In question 5(a), the United States asked the Parties to provide trade flow and tariff data for 
products in each of the four liberalization schedules:  Early Harvest Program, Normal Track, Sensitive List, and Highly Sensitive List.  The Parties provided no trade flow data at all nor any tariff line data 
line data for the Early Harvest Program.  
• Could the Parties please provide the data originally requested?    
 2. In response to question 5(b), the Parties assert that upon completion of liberalization, on 
average, 95 per cent of tariff lines for ASEAN6 an d China will be duty-free, and 93.7 per cent for 
CLMV will be duty free.      
• For each  party to the agreement, please provide the total number of tariff lines that will be 
duty-free upon full liberalization and the total number of tariff lines in that country's schedule (i.e., the numerator and denominator for this calculation.) 
 
3. The Parties have not provided the information re quested in question 5(c).  For each Party to 
the Agreement, please provide the number of tariff lines and value of trade not included in the Early 
Harvest Program, the Normal Track, the Sensitive List or the Highly Sensitive List. 
4. In question 7, we asked whether the tariff reduc tions and eliminations under Article 6(3)(b)(i) 
of the Framework Agreement (as modified by the Protocol), had been completed .  The Parties 
responded that the liberalization/elimination had commenced .  Please provide information as to the WT/COMTD/51/Add.5 
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  completion, not commencement, of the liberalizati on/elimination of tariffs under the Early Harvest 
Program. 
5. In question 9, the United States requested an upda te as to tariff reduc tions and eliminations 
that have taken place to date.  The Parties' generi c response stated that only those Parties who have 
enacted the agreement must implement the tariff reductions/eliminations.   
• Please provide an update as to which tariff re ductions and elimina tions have actually 
occurred.  
 6. In response to question 10, the Parties referred to what should  happen under the liberalization 
schedule of the ACFTA.  Our question, however, sought an update as to the actual schedule for 
liberalization.  Please provide update on which wh ether each Party is adhering to the scheduled 
liberalizations required under the Normal Track.  
7. In question 16(a), we requested the trade-weight ed and simple average tariff rates for each 
Party's Sensitive List and Highly Sensitive List af ter full implementation of the ACFTA.  No data 
were provided.  Please provide at least the simple average tariff rates for each Party’s Sensitive List 
and Highly Sensitive List.   
 
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