. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/L/773 
27 October 2009 
 (09-5320) 
  
  
 
REPORT (2009) OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
TRADE IN CIVIL AIRCRAFT 
  
1. This report is submitted under Article 8.2 of  the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft 
(hereinafter the "Agreement") and Article IV.8 of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World 
Trade Organization.  It sets out the activities of the Committee since November 2008.   
2. There are 31 Signatories to the Agreement:  Albania, Canada, the European Communities
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(the following 20 EC Member States are also Signatories to the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft in their own right:  Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, 
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Ne therlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and 
the United Kingdom),
 Egypt, Georgia, Japan, Macao China, Norway, Switzerland, Chinese Taipei and 
the United States.  Those WTO Members with observe r status in the Committee are:  Argentina, 
Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Co lombia, Gabon, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Israel, 
the Republic of Korea, Mauritius, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and 
Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey and the Ukraine.  In add ition the Russian Federation is also an observer.  
The IMF and UNCTAD are also observers.   
3. Since its last Annual Report to the General Council (WT/L/743), the Committee on Trade in 
Civil Aircraft held one regular meeting, on 15  October 2009.  At this meeting, the Committee 
considered the following matters on its agenda:  re vision of the Product Coverage Annex of the 1979 
Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft;  transparency ex ercise and the date of the next regular meeting.  
The agenda and minutes of this meeting will be issued as document TCA/M/25.   
4. At its regular meeting, the Committee considered the Technical Note prepared by the 
Secretariat (circulated by fax of 3 September 2008) on possible revisions to the Product Coverage 
Annex in the light of the Harmonized Commodity and Description System that entered into force 
in 2007.  Various Signatories intervened with co mments and questions, as well as suggestions for how 
the Committee could progress this ite m.  The Committee agreed with the Chairperson's suggestion to 
request the Secretariat to prepare and circulate an updated Technical Note, taking into account the 
comments and questions received thus far, which c ould serve as a basis for further dicussions at the 
next meeting of the Committee in 2010.   
5. At its regular meeting, the Committee reconsider ed the letter of February 2009 from the Chair 
of the General Council inviting Signatories to hold consultations on ways to  improve the timeliness 
and completeness of notifications and other inform ation flows on trade measures falling within the 
scope of its areas of responsibility under the Trade in Civil Aircraft Agreement.  The letter had 
already been circulated by the Committee Chair earli er in 2009, when she had asked Signatories to 
express their views on whether they considered it might  be useful to call an informal meeting of the 
                                                      
1 Currently comprising 27 member States:  Austri a, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, 
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hu ngary, Ireland, Italy, Latv ia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, 
Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Roma nia, Slovakia, Slovenia,  Spain, Sweden, and 
the United Kingdom.   WT/L/773 
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  Committee in order to discuss the matters mentioned in the Chair's letter.  The Committee agreed that, 
at present, there was no need to discuss how to improve the information flows on trade measures 
falling within its scope of the work.   
6. The Technical Sub-Committee of the Committee on Trade in Civil Aircraft did not meet 
during the period under review and neither did the Sub-Committee of the Committee on Trade in 
Civil Aircraft.   
 
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