WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/L/963 
10 October 2011 
 (11-4902) 
Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures  
  
 
TRANSITIONAL REVIEW MECHANISM PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH 18 OF THE 
PROTOCOL OF ACCESSION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA TO THE 
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
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Report of the Chairperson 
  1. Pursuant to Paragraph 18 of the Protocol of Accession of the People's Republic of China, the 
Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures carri ed out the ninth and final annual review under 
China's Transitional Review Mechanism (TRM ) at its meeting on 3 October 2011.   
2. In a communication dated 23 September 2011, Ch ina submitted information on Annex 1A of 
its Protocol of Accession in connection with this  review.  This submission was distributed in 
document G/TRIMS/W/90 dated 23 September 2011. 
3. A written communication regarding China's Trans itional Review was submitted in advance of 
the review by Japan. This communication was circulated in document G/TRIMS/W/85 dated 
21 September 2011. 
4. Annex 1 to this report reproduces the releva nt sections of the Minutes of the TRIMs 
Committee's meeting held on 3 October 2011 in whic h Members' substantive discussions regarding 
China's ninth and final Transitional Review are reflected.  
 
 
 
                                                      
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Annex 1 
  
Relevant Sections of the Minutes  
of the meeting held on 3 October 2011 
 
(G/TRIMS/M/31) 
 
 
G. T RANSITIONAL REVIEW MECHANISM PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH  18 OF THE PROTOCOL OF 
ACCESSION OF THE PEOPLE 'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION  
1. The Chairperson recalled that under Paragra ph 18 of China's Protocol of Accession 
(WT/L/432) the TRIMs Committee was required to revi ew annually, over a period of eight years after 
China's accession, the implementation by China of  the TRIMs Agreement and the related provisions 
of the Protocol of Accession, and to report to th e Council for Trade in Goods (CTG) on the results of 
its review.  The eighth annual review of China had taken place on 16 Octobe r 2009, and the relevant 
report had been submitted to the CTG as document G/L/899. 
2. With respect to this year's review, the ninth an d final, the Chairperson said that in order to 
discharge its reporting obligations in a timely ma nner, the TRIMs Committee n eeded to undertake the 
review and submit its report in advance of the ne xt meeting of the CTG which was scheduled for 
7 November 2011.  Pursuant to para graph 18 of China's Protocol of Accession, the CTG would in turn 
report to the General Council by December 2011. 
3. The Chairperson said that the Committee had received a communication from China 
concerning information required under Annex 1A of  its Protocol of Accession, which had been 
circulated as document G/TRIMS/W/90.  She added that the Committee had also received a 
communication from Japan in connection with this review.  This communication was circulated in 
document G/TRIMS/W/85. 
4. The Chairperson proposed that, in keeping with previous practice, the Committee would 
conduct the review in the following manner:  she woul d first give the floor to the delegation of Japan 
that had submitted a communication in connection with  the review, and to any other delegation that 
wished to comment on this item.  She would then  invite the delegation of China to answer the 
questions posed and provide any other information it might wish to share with the Committee.    
5. The Committee so agreed.  
6. The representative of Japan welcomed generally China's efforts to simplify the verification 
processes for investment projects in recent years, in cluding efforts on decentralization, liberalization, 
and enhancement of transparency. However, there were still difficulties for foreign SMEs to follow 
the implementation of the verification processes, since a unified response could not be expected 
among different local governments. In this sense, fu rther transparency and predictably for foreign 
investors would be appreciated. He added that restri ctions on foreign capital participation remained in 
many sectors. For instance, commitments had been  made to open up certain sectors under the Law on 
Management of Foreign Investme nt in the Commercial Sectors, but the implementing regulations 
were not enforced yet. He indicated that China wo uld be required to enforce related regulations to 
fulfil its commitments. He submitted that although Ch ina had committed itself to fully comply with 
the relevant provisions under the TRIMs Agreement as well as its Accession Protocol, in particular 
paragraph 7.3 of Part I, performance requirements on local content or technology transfer still remain 
as impediments.   G/L/963 
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  7. On China's consistency with its commitments  under paragraph 7.3 of the Protocol, the 
representative of Japan noted that Japan was con cerned that the Government of China was still 
imposing a kind of technology transfer requirements on investments in the new-energy vehicles production.  He requested China to provide its view  in this regard. He indicated that it would be 
appropriate for China to refrain from intervening in the market in order to enhance the visibility and 
creditability of the Chinese market.  
8. The representative of the United States recalle d that the TRM was created largely because 
China was admitted to the WTO Membership before it had revised all of its trade-related laws and 
regulations to become WTO-compatible, and because China was allowed a variety of transition periods before it took on certain WTO obligations . The annual TRM meetings, therefore, provided 
Members with opportunities to review with China, in  a multilateral setting, the efforts that China had 
taken to implement specific commitments made in its Protocol of Accession as well as China's efforts 
to comply with the obligations that it had taken on under the many agreements that made up the WTO 
Agreement.      
9. The representative of the United States indicated that looking back on past transitional 
reviews, the focus of these reviews had changed over  time. For the first five years of China's WTO 
Membership, the transitional reviews focused pr edominantly on the scheduled phase-in of key 
commitments that China had made in its Protocol of Accession. However, once that phase-in-period ended, and China could no longer be considered a new WTO Member, the focu s of the TRM shifted. 
At that point, the transitional reviews focused more  on China's adherence to the range of WTO rules 
that obligate all Members. She added that during the initial phase-in period, China implemented a set 
of sweeping commitments, including reducing tariffs , eliminating non-tariff barriers that denied 
national treatment and market access for goods and services imported from other WTO Members, and making legal improvements in intellectual property protections and in transparency. These actions 
deepened China's integration into  the international trading system, facilitating and strengthening 
China's rule of law and economic reform. Trade a nd investment also expande d dramatically between 
China and its many trading partners.    
10. The representative of the United States stated  that even though China had taken many 
impressive steps to reform its economy since joining the WTO ten years ago, the overall picture remained complex, given a troubling trend in China toward increased state in tervention in the Chinese 
economy in recent years. Frequently, trade frictions with China could be traced to China's pursuit of 
industrial policies that rely on excessive, trad e-distorting government intervention intended to 
promote or protect China's domestic industries and state-owned enterprises. This government 
intervention reflected that China' s rapid transition from a centrally planned economy to a free-market 
economy governed by rule of law remained incomplete.  
11. On developments relating to investment measu res in particular, the representative of the 
United States recalled that, as a result of its ac cession negotiations, China had not only taken on the 
obligations of the TRIMs Agreement, but also made additional commitments that Members had 
sought in order to discipline China's use of a variet y of investment restrictions. For example, China 
agreed to eliminate export performance, local cont ent and foreign exchange  balancing requirements 
from its laws, regulations and othe r measures, and not to enforce the terms of any contracts imposing 
these requirements. In addition, China agreed that it would no longer condition importation or 
investment approvals on these requirements or on requirements such as technology transfer and 
offsets. 
12. Furthermore, the representative of the Unite d States submitted that before and after its 
accession, China revised many laws and regulations  on foreign-invested enterprises to eliminate 
WTO-inconsistent requirements re lating to export performance, local content, foreign exchange 
balancing and technology transfer. However, some of  the revised laws and re gulations have continued G/L/963 
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  to "encourage" technology transfer or the use of  local content, without formally requiring it. 
Moreover, even when laws and regulations had not expressly enc ouraged it, enterprises from the 
United States and other Members had continually re ported that some Chinese government officials, 
who retained a high degree of discretion when re viewing investment applications, still considered 
factors such as technology transfer and local content when deciding whether to approve an 
investment. She added that one sector that had been particularly hit with investment restrictions and 
related problematic policies designed to shie ld Chinese enterprises from foreign competition 
throughout China's ten years of WTO Membership was the auto sector. Unfortunately, these policies 
had included guidelines which appeared to conflict with China's WTO obligations. 
13. In addition, even though China had committed to  revise its industrial policy for the auto 
sector to make it compatible with WTO rules, the revised policy that China issued in 2004 included 
provisions discouraging the importation of auto  parts and encouraging the use of domestic 
technology. It also required new automobile and au tomobile engine plants to include substantial 
investment in research and development facilities, despite its commitment not to condition the right of 
investment on the conduct of research and develo pment. One of the measu res that emanated from 
China's revised auto policy was a 2005 regulation th at unfairly discriminated against imported auto 
parts and discouraged automobile manufactures in  China from using imported auto parts in the 
assembly of vehicles. In 2006, after bilateral di alogue failed to convince China to withdraw its 
regulation, the United States, the European Un ion and Canada initiated a WTO case challenging 
China's regulation as inconsistent with several  WTO provisions, including Article III of the 
GATT 1994 and Article 2 of the TRIMs Agreement,  as well as the commitment in China's accession 
agreement to eliminate all local content requireme nts relating to importation. A WTO panel and the 
WTO Appellate Body had both ruled in favour of th e United States and the other complaining parties 
and China repealed its regulation in 2009.    
14. The representative of the United States also expl ained that China had, more recently, taken a 
series of problematic actions related to the so-ca lled "new energy vehicles" or NEVs. For example, 
regulations issued by the National Development a nd Reform Commission in 2007 and the Ministry of 
Industry and Information Technology in 2009 required that the foreign manufactures' NEV 
investments in China be subject to project a pproval. Through this approval process, foreign 
manufacturers may be required to transfer sensitiv e technologies to their joint ventures with Chinese 
partners - the only investment mechanism through which foreign manufacturers may build vehicles in 
China - in order for any new NEV manufacturing facilities and new NEV models to be approved, 
given the regulations' requirement that the ma nufacturing entity in China should "hold" and 
demonstrate "mastery" of certain core NEV t echnologies. The regulations also required the 
manufacturers to set up research and development units  in China. These aspects of China's regulations 
had raised serious concerns in the United States a nd other Members in light of the commitment that 
China made not to condition investment on the tran sfer of technology or the conduct of research and 
development. 
15. Moreover, based on statements made by Ch inese government officials and reports from 
various non-governmental sources, it appeared that  China had begun to implement, or may soon 
implement, a number of other troubling policies re lating to NEVs, either through the exercise of 
discretionary authority by Chinese regulatory agen cies or the issuance of new regulations. In 
particular, China appeared to be imposing new requirements to sell NEVs in China only under 
Chinese brands, even though China committed to elim inate restrictions on the types of cars foreign 
enterprises produce or sell in China. Revisions to China's Foreign Investment Catalogue ,
 currently 
under consideration, would limit foreign manufacturers to no more than 50 per cent of a joint venture 
to manufacture NEV parts, even though parts manufac turers (unlike manufacturers of whole vehicles) 
previously had been able to operate in Chin a through wholly foreign-owned enterprises. China 
appeared to have begun, or might soon begin, ma king substantial subsidies available in connection 
with the purchase of domestically produced NEVs, but not imported NEVs, raising national treatment  G/L/963 
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  concerns under Article III of the GATT 1994. China al so appeared to be considering incentives that 
would allow purchasers of domestically produced NEVs to complete automobile registration in municipalities like Beijing and Shanghai more quickly and easily.         
16. The representative of the United States also st ated that the steel sector was another sector 
which had been impacted by troubling investment restrictions since China acceded to the WTO. For 
example, the industrial policy for the steel sector that China issued in 2005 required that foreign 
investors possess proprietary technology or intellectual property in the processing of steel. Given that foreign investors were not allowed to have a cont rolling share in steel enterprises in China, this 
requirement would seem to constitute a de facto  technology transfer requirement, in conflict with 
China's commitment not to condition investment on the transfer of technology. This policy also 
appeared to discriminate against foreign equipment and technology imports. Like other measures, this 
policy encouraged the use of local content by callin g for a variety of government financial support for 
steel projects utilizing newly developed domestic equipm ent. It also called for the use of domestically 
produced steel-manufacturing equipment and domes tic technologies whenever domestic suppliers 
exist, apparently in contravention of the commitme nt that China made not to condition the right of 
investment or importation on whether co mpeting domestic suppliers existed. 
17. In a number of other sectors, the United States and other Members had become increasingly 
concerned over the last few years about new r estrictions on investment being proposed and 
implemented by China. Often, these restrictions were accompanied by other problematic industrial policies, such as the increased use of subsidies, preferences for using domestic rather than imported 
goods, and the development of China-specific standard s. Many of these investment restrictions could 
be traced to a five-year plan, issued in 2006, which sought to restrict foreign enterprises' acquisition of 
"dragon head" enterprises, prevent the "emergence or expansion of foreign capital monopolies", 
protect national economic security, particularly "ind ustry security", and prevent "abuse of intellectual 
property". China's investment restrictions – includi ng the restrictions that China placed on foreign 
acquisitions of Chinese companies, which went be yond genuine national security concerns – had run 
counter to the market-oriented principles that were  the basis for much of China's economic success 
over the past few decades. Indeed, these types of invest ment restrictions were more likely to retard the 
growth and development of the Chinese economy than to accomplish the state planners' ultimate objective of creating internationall y competitive domestic enterprises. 
18. Finally, the representative of the United States me ntioned that in the area of investment, like 
many other areas, it appeared that China had made  progress but had not yet implemented all of the 
cross-cutting transparency commitments that it made  when it acceded to the WTO, and that serious 
concerns remained, even after ten years of the WTO Membership. 
19. First, with regard to China's commitment to publish all laws, regula tions and other measures 
pertaining to or affecting trade in goods or services (as set forth in paragraph 331 of China's Working 
Party Report), China had complied with this commitment in many respects. However, it still did not 
appear that China had published measur es that provided "internal guidance".  
20. Second, with regard to China's commitment to publish measures for comment before 
implementing them (as set forth in paragraph 2 (C ) 2 of Part I of China's Protocol of Accession), 
China had made improvements, but it appeared that  China had still not institutionalized a notice-and-
comment mechanism for all Chinese agencies. To date, while the State Council had been regularly 
publishing proposed regul ations for public comment, it appeared that Chinese agencies had had more 
difficulty publishing proposed departmental rules and other proposed measures. The United States 
noted that, in case of the NEVs discussed previous ly, while proposed revisi ons to China's Foreign 
Investment Catalogue were published for public comment, other proposed measures had not been 
made public, even though it appeared that Chinese government officials might already be 
implementing some of them. G/L/963 
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  21. Third, with regard to China's commitment to make available all laws, regulations and other 
measures pertaining to or affecting trade in goods or services in one or more WTO languages (as set 
forth in paragraph 334 of China's Working Part y Report), it appeared that China had made no 
progress in implementing this important commitment.  
22. Going forward, the representative of the Unite d States urged China to reconsider its heavy 
reliance on investment restrictions as a tool of i ndustrial policy. She also ur ged China to review its 
existing investment restrictions, particularly in the auto and steel sectors, in light of its WTO 
commitments and make appropriate revisions where necessary. She concluded by indicating that the 
United States would continue to e ngage with China, both in the Committee and bilaterally, until these 
outstanding issues were satisfactorily resolved.  
23. The representative of Mexico indicated that there was no doubt that the accession of China 
had marked an important step for the multilateral trading system. The importance of China in the 
multilateral trading system had required great monitoring of its commitments within the framework of its accession to the WTO. He noted that China made important progress in terms of FDI, the elimination of certain requirements such as export performance and local content requirements, but 
noted that there were many concerns which inte rested foreign companies had with regard to 
performance requirements and the recruiting of local staff, among other things. He was of the view 
that this was not in line with paragraph 203 of th e Report of the Working Party on the Accession of 
China which stated that the allocation, permission or rights of importation and investment would not 
be conditional upon performance requirements set by nati onal or sub-national authorities, or subject to 
secondary conditions covering, for example, the con duct of research, the provision of offsets or other 
forms of industrial compensation including specifi ed types or volumes of business opportunities, the 
use of local inputs or the transfer of technology.  He also recalled that paragraph 49 of China's 
Protocol of Accession stated that China would not impose any requirements pertaining to the transfer 
of technology which were not compatible with the TRIMs Agreement. He finally submitted that this 
had given rise to concerns within the private sect or in Mexico and urged China to review these 
measures in line with the commitments  it took upon its accession to the WTO. 
24. The representative of the European Union indicated  that after ten years of its accession to the 
WTO, China has moved from being an emerging economy to a global economic power. Its WTO 
Membership had certainly not been alien to its im pressive transformation; as a corollary, it was also 
expected that China's domestic policies and measu res would fully abide by WTO rules and be duly 
designed and implemented in line with the commitments  made in the run up to its accession. He noted 
that this TRM had provided the WTO Members with the opportunity to review the implementation of 
these commitments. He added that, like many other Members, the European Union had made active 
use of this TRM throughout the process – be it ora lly or via written submissions – and thanked China 
for its cooperation. He also thanked China for subm itting, though belatedly, the information prior to 
this meeting2 in accordance with Article 18.1 and Annex 1A of China's Accession Protocol.  
25. The representative of the European Union had welcomed China's overall efforts to enhance 
transparency as far as the investment approva l process and publication and consultation on new 
legislative initiatives which impact investment we re concerned. However, he submitted that the 
European Union had also noted that investment a pproval in China remained a very difficult process 
and that there were no clear "one-stop" shops pert aining to these approval procedures and that further 
streamlining would be appreciated. In 2011, the Ch inese government published a draft revision of the 
Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment  Industries, which listed the sectors in which 
foreign direct investment was either encouraged, re stricted or prohibited and would eventually update 
the 2007 version of the Catalogue. The European Union had also welcomed the opportunity to comment in the public consultation and has submitted  comments to China, but would like to receive 
                                                      
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  some update on the next steps in this process.  He also regretted that in its draft version, the revised 
Catalogue did not substantiv ely remove restrictions for sectors a nd had even added some sectors, such 
as postal and courier services to the list of prohibited sectors.  
26. The representative of the European Union note d that China continued to maintain an 
investment environment where all foreign investme nts appear to be subject to some form of 
government approval.  The European Union welcomed  the steps undertaken in the past to facilitate 
the approval process by increasing the threshold unde r which sub-central authorities could approve 
foreign investments. However, the Chinese investment environment continued to include many restrictions on foreign investment, including comple te bans on foreign investment in certain sectors, 
reflecting the government's continued role  as a very active manager of the economy.  He emphasized 
that in the future more restrictions should be lifte d. In this context, the European Union had been 
concerned about the new national security screeni ng mechanism for foreig n investment through 
mergers and acquisitions of domestic Chinese enterp rises. While national security concerns were of 
course important, he stressed that national security  had to remain a narrowly defined concept and 
should not be used beyond what would be proporti onate. In particular, the European Union was 
concerned about the retroactive applicability of this screening mechanism,  which seemed to allow 
China to even force disinvestments with no timefra me for already established foreign enterprises. He 
urged China to implement such measures ensuring tr ansparency and predictability.  Furthermore, 
while the European Union recognized that China ha d revised many laws and regulations on foreign-
invested enterprises to eliminate WTO-inconsistent  requirements relating to export performance, local 
content, foreign exchange balancing and technology  transfer (as required by China's Protocol of 
Accession, part I, paragraph 7.3, and China's Work ing Party Report, paragra ph 203), he believed that 
this process had not been finalized and encouraged  China to ensure these requirements were fully 
removed. 
27. The representative of the European Union added th at it regrettably appeared that the Chinese 
Government continued to pressure foreign companies to transfer technology, use local content or set 
up research facilities in China. These requirements were still contained in certain joint-venture 
operations. In particular, he e xpressed concern about this in the area of new energy vehicles 
production. He referred to his delegation's earlier statem ents in this respect in this Committee, and to 
documents G/TRIMS/W/60 (14 October 2008) and G/TRIMS/W/69 (5 October 2009), and indicated 
that the European Union would remain concerned w ith the joint-venture requirements and the "2+2" 
regulation that was severely limiting foreign invest ment opportunities in the automobiles and auto-
components sector. In a sector which had now become the world's largest, protection of infant 
industry was an argument that could no longer hold.  Therefore, the European Union would once again 
encourage China to completely eliminate these require ments in all cases with a view to really pursue 
the consolidation of the automobile industry. 
28. Another example where the European Union rema ined concerned about restrictive conditions 
for foreign investors was the wind power sector. Th e representative of the European Union submitted 
that while localization requirements might have been  removed, serious limita tions persisted, that 
would effectively hinder foreign investors from partic ipating in this market, for instance by requiring 
that wind turbine generators be produced domestical ly. Foreign developers c ould only participate in 
offshore wind projects via Chinese-controlled jo int ventures. Another additional worrisome 
development was the issuance of measures aiming at the exclusion of foreign-invested enterprises 
from the implementation of Clean Development Mechanism projects. 
29. Finally, the representative of the European Uni on stated that his delegation would monitor all 
those important issues. He believed that, within its  remit, this Committee would continue to provide 
an appropriate forum for spurring Me mbers to ensure that their trade regimes were fully in conformity 
with the rules of the multilateral trading system, to the benefit of the whole WTO Membership.  G/L/963 
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  30. The representative of China started by respondi ng to the question posed by Japan concerning 
the Rules on the Access of New-Energy Vehicle Manufacturers and Products . He also referred to the 
statements made by the United States and the Europ ean Union in which the relevant policies of the 
Chinese government were mentioned. He explained that  with respect to the specific rules on the new 
energy vehicles and following consu ltations with the relevant Chinese authorities, it became apparent 
that Members had probably misunderstood some of the Chinese measures or policies. He clarified that 
the rules themselves did not impose TRIMs inconsiste nt compulsory technology transfer requirements 
as understood by China's trading partners. He explaine d that what was specified  in the rules was that 
the manufacturers, both foreign and domestic, shoul d indeed have their own key technology in the 
area of new energy vehicle manufacturing, but that did not mean that the technology owned by 
foreign investors should be transferred. The Chinese au thorities were of the view that since this sector 
was relatively new and still at an early stage of technology development and industrialization, such 
requirement would be necessary at this stage to guara ntee the safety and quality of the products and to 
demonstrate the effectiveness of the product' s performance as a new energy vehicle.  
31. The representative of China also re ferred to China's efforts in the past ten years with regard to 
the implementation of China's TRIMs-related commitm ents. He explained that as reflected in all the 
nine submissions provided by China to the Committe e pursuant to Annex 1 (A) of China's Protocol of 
Accession, China had seriously fulfilled its commitm ents with respect to the TRIMs Agreement. 
Furthermore, China had also been engaged in discu ssions and consultations w ith Members in an open 
and candid spirit on issues concerning China's TRIMs with the aim that the implementation of these 
measures would be consistent with  the requirements of the TRIMs Agreement. Such exchanges had 
by no means been limited only to this item of the Committee meeting's agenda.  
32. The representative of China indicat ed that China would continue to take rights and obligations 
in the WTO seriously, including those under the TR IMs Agreement.  He had taken note of the 
concerns and views expressed by some other Member s in their previous statements and it was not 
surprising that Members had either misunderstandi ngs or concerns on some of China's policies, 
particularly in the industrial policy area. On that part icular issue, he stated that China as a sovereign 
state had the right to design its regimes including th at concerning foreign investment. He also stated 
that China, in  the welfare of its own people and to achieve economic progress and development, 
certainly had the right to design its own policies and measures which it believe d to be important and 
adequate. However, in this course, China and other WTO Members shared a common ground of WTO 
rules and principles including those of the TRIMs Agreement. He expressed China's readiness to 
continue its discussions with Members b ased on these common rules and principles.  
33. The representative of China assured the Committe e that China would continue to further 
expand its opening up to foreign investment, and the la test move of China in this respect was reflected 
in the latest submission made by China to th e Committee as contained in document G/TRIMS/W/90, 
that is, as noted by the European Union, China w as revising its Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign 
Investment Industries, and in this revision Chin a would open up some sectors further to foreign 
investment. He concluded that China's excha nge with Members on TRIMs-related issues would 
certainly continue in view of China's further opening and that the end of this transitional review would 
not mean the end of China's communication with other Members.  China would continue to participate in the activities of this Committ ee in an open and cooperative spirit.    
34. The Chairperson said that with regard to the Committee's reporting obligation to the CTG, she 
understood that Members would wish the Committee to follow the same pro cedure that had been 
adopted in previous years, i.e. the Chairperson would submit a brief, factual report, which would include references to the submissions made in conn ection with this year's Review and would contain 
in the Annex the relevant parts of the Minutes of th is meeting.  She indicated that she had taken the 
liberty of asking the Secretariat to prepare a draft outline of her report for Members' consideration.   G/L/963 
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  This had been circulated as document G/TRIMS/W/84.  If Members agreed to this outline, and once 
the relevant section of the Minutes had been attached to it, she would forward the report to the CTG.  
35. The Committee took note of the statements made under this item and agreed on the proposed 
procedure to discharge its reporting obligations concerning China's TRM.  
 
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