. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/MA/243 
5 November 2010 
 (10-5872) 
Committee on Market Access  
  
 
PERIODIC REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO THE 
COUNCIL FOR TRADE IN GOODS 
 
 1. The Committee met on 11 October 2010 a nd examined the following issues: 
 
2. The Committee approved the draft periodic repor t to the Council for Trade in Goods (CTG) 
(G/MA/SPEC/45) which provided an overview of the issues discussed at the meeting.  3.  The Committee approved the extensio n of the HS2002 waiver (G/C/W/637). 
 
4. The Committee approved the extension of the HS2007 waiver (G/C/W/638). 
 5. The Committee took note of the status of submis sions of HS96 documentation as set out in 
document G/MA/TAR/2/Rev.45.  It also took note of the report by the Chai rman on the multilateral 
review held to examine the schedules of 64 Member s pursuant to the decision on "Procedures leading to 
the verification and certification of HS96 chan ges relating to the schedules of 64 Members" 
(WT/L/756).   6. The Secretariat reported on the status of work concerning the introduction of HS2002 changes 
to schedules of concessions using the CTS database.  The Committee also considered some changes to 
the existing procedure to incorporate such changes to schedules which were circulated in JOB/MA/51.  
In light of comments made at th e meeting, the Committee agreed that  the Secretariat should revise the 
document and that Members be allowed time to review the changes. It was also agreed that if no comments were submitted following su ch a review, the revised document
1 would be transmitted to the 
General Council for adoption.   
7. With reference to the modalities and operation of the Integrated Data Base, the Committee 
examined the status of IDB submissions on the basis of the documents G/MA/IDB/2/Rev.32. The 
Secretariat reported on inter alia the status of processing of IDB subm issions, use of IDB information,  
the status of software development and technical assistance.    
8. The Secretariat reported on the status of work  with respect to the Consolidated Tariff 
Schedules (CTS) Database.   In this connection, the Committee approved the revised formats for the 
CTS database concerning tariff commitments and specific commitments in agriculture in HS2002 
nomenclature (JOB/MA/13/Rev.1)
2. 
 
9. The Committee approved the request (G/MA/W/103) from the European Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development for acc ess to the IDB and CTS database.   
                                                      
1 In light of comments made on the revised document, the Chairman proposed that JOB/MA/51 be once 
again considered by Members and a time-period was given for comments.  As no comments were received, 
document JOB/MA/51 was considered approved by the Committee and was re-issued as G/MA/W/104.  This 
document was forwarded to the General Council for adoption. 
2 The approved document was re-issued as G/MA/244.  G/MA/243 
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  10. The Committee took note of the report by the Ch airman on consultations or action taken in 
relation to the Decision on Notification Proce dures for Quantitative Restrictions (G/L/59). 
 11.  The Committee took note of the report by the Chairman about an ongoing process to 
derestrict certain bilateral negotiating documenta tion relating to earlier GATT rounds of negotiations.  
The Committee also took note of the Secretaria t document which provided website addresses of 
national tariffs (G/MA/TAR/13/Rev.14).   12. The Committee considered its draft report (2010) to the CTG (G/MA/SPEC/46). It was agreed 
that an update of this report which took into acc ount the developments at this meeting would be 
circulated to all Members. If no comments were  forthcoming then the updated report would be 
considered adopted
3. 
 13. The Committee elected Ms. Sabrina Musumeci (Switzerland) as Vice-Chairperson.  
 
 
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3 Adopted report was circulated as G/L/938.