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Reference:     WLI/100                 22 March 2006  
  
 
  
 
  
MARRAKESH AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING 
THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION 
DONE AT MARRAKESH ON 15 APRIL 1994 
 
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE 1994 
 
CERTIFICATION OF MODIFICATIONS  AND RECTIFICATIONS TO  
SCHEDULE XII – INDIA 
 
 
TRANSMISSION OF CERTIFIED TRUE COPY
 
 
 I have the honour to furnish herewith a certified tr ue copy of the Certification of Modifications 
and Rectifications to Schedule XII – India, effective 7 July 1994 . 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
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SCHEDULES OF TARIFF CONCESSIONS TO THE 
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE 1994 
 
CERTIFICATION OF MODIFICATIONS AND RECTIFICATIONS 
 
SCHEDULE XII – INDIA  
  
 WHEREAS the CONTRACTING PARTIES to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 
1947 (the "GATT") adopted, on 26 March 1980, a Decision on Procedures for Modification and 
Rectification of Schedules of  Tariff Concessions (L/4962)
1; 
 
 WHEREAS Contracting Parties to the GATT carried out negotiations with a view to 
introducing into Schedule XII of India the Harm onized Commodity Description and Coding System 
(the "Harmonized System") pursuant to Article XXVIII  of the GATT and the special procedures relating 
to the transposition of the current GATT conce ssions into the Harmonized System, adopted by the 
GATT Council on 12 July 1983 (BISD 30S/17);  
 WHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of the above-ment ioned Decision, a draft of the 
consolidated Schedule XII – India in the nomenclat ure of the Harmonized System was communicated 
to all Contracting Parties to the GATT in document TAR/232 on 26 October 1993; 
 
 WHEREAS the Government of India annexed to the Geneva (1994) Protocol to the General 
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade the consolidated Schedule XII in the nomenclature of the 
Harmonized System on 7 July 1994 (L/7463/Add.2), which Protocol did not enter into force;  
  WHEREAS provision should now be  made for the entry into force of the consolidated 
Schedule XII in the nomenclature of the Harmonized System by means of a Ce rtification, as agreed 
by the Council for Trade in Goods at its meeting on 10 November 2005 (G/C/M/82);  
 
 IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the modification s and rectifications to Schedule XII - India are 
established in conformity with the above-mentioned Decision.   
 
 The modifications in the annexed Schedule enter  into force as of 7 July 1994, without 
prejudice to any modifications and rectifications made effective subsequent to that date and without 
prejudice to the Marrakesh Protocol to the GATT 1994 of 15 April 1994. 
  This Certification is deposited with the Dire ctor-General of the Worl d Trade Organization, who 
shall promptly furnish a certified true copy to each  Member of the World Trade Organization.  It shall 
be registered in accordance with the provisions of  Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations. 
 
 
 DONE at Geneva this fourteenth day  of March, two thousand and six. 
 
 
  
 
 
 
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Certified copy: 
  
 
  
 
Director-General 
                                                      
1 BISD 27S/25.   
 PP – 3 - 36 
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