RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/C/W/340
6 November 2001
(01-5442)
Council for Trade in Goods Original:  Spanish
REQUEST FOR WAIVER FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF COLOMBIA
CONCERNING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTICLE 5.2
OF THE AGREEMENT ON TRADE-RELATED
INVESTMENT MEASURES
The following communication, dated 5 November 2001, has been received from the
Permanent Mission of Colombia.
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Pursuant to Article IX:3(b) of the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, I
am submitting herewith to the Council for Trade in Goods my Government's request for a waiver
concerning the implementation of Article 5.2 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment
Measures.
This request concerns the trade-related investment measure applicable to beans under tariff
subheadings 0713319000, 0713329000, 071339000 and 0713399000, which was duly notified by the
Government of Colombia in 1995 in document G/TRIMS/N/1/COL/2, where it is stated that the
absorption policy would be applied to all agricultural products.
The waiver is being requested because of the difficulties faced by Colombia's agricultural
sector, which prevent the TRIM in respect of the aforementioned products from being eliminated
without further delay and consist of structural weaknesses in the domestic marketing of agricultural
goods and the adverse effects on the agricultural sector of the structural adjustment resulting from the
change in the economic model from 1991 onwards.  These difficulties are explained in detail in
document G/C/W/296, circulated on 17 September 2001.
As this request is the outcome of the consultations held in the context of approving the phase-
out programmes, I would request that it be included in the agenda when the above-mentioned decision
is adopted and I should like to inform you that we have started to introduce the relevant amendments
to our phase-out programme for trade-related in vestment measures, an updated copy of which is
attached to this communication.G/C/W/340
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TRADE-RELATED INVESTMENT MEASURE PHASE-OUT PROGRAMME
FOR THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
31 December 2000
Colombia undertakes not to apply the absorption policy to the unrelated agricultural, livestock
and fishery products listed in this Annex and to abolish the absorption policy for the following:
NANDINA Description
0207320000 Meat and edible offal of ducks, geese and guinea fowls, not cut in pieces, fresh or
chilled
0207330000 Meat and edible offal of ducks, geese and guinea fowls, not cut in pieces, frozen
1502001100 Raw tallow and other raw fats, denatured
1502001900 Other raw tallow and fats
1502009000 Other fats of bovine animals or goats, raw
1503000000 Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or
otherwise prepared
1506001000 Neat's-foot oil, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
1506009000 Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not
chemically modified
1515900000 Other vegetable fats and oils, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
1516100000 Animal fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated
1516200000 Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated
3823110000 Stearic acid
3823120000 Oleic acid
31 December 2002
Colombia undertakes to abolish the absorption policy for the following products:
1507100000 Crude soya bean oil, whether or not degummed
1507900010 Other (with added denaturing substances in a proportion of not more than 1 per cent)
1507900090 Other
1511100000 Crude palm oil and its fractions
1511900000 Other refined palm oil and its fractions, not chemically modified
1512110000 Crude sunflower seed or safflower oil and fractions thereof
1512190000 Refined sunflower seed or safflower oil and fractions thereof, not chemically
modified
1512210000 Crude cotton seed oil and its fractions, whether or not gossypol has been removed
1512290000 Other cotton seed oil and its fractions, not chemically modified
1513110000 Crude coconut oil and its fractions
1513190000 Other coconut oil and its fractions, not chemically modified
1513211000 Crude palm oil and its fractions
1513291000 Other palm kernel oil
1514100000 Crude rape, colza or mustard oil and fractions thereof
1514900000 Other rape, colza or mustard oil, not chemically modified
1515210000 Crude maize (corn) oil and its fractions, not chemically modified
1515290000 Crude maize (corn) oil and its fractions, refined, but not chemically modified
1515500000 Sesame oil and its fractions
2309100000 Dog or cat food, put up for retail saleG/C/W/340
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31 DECEMBER 2003
Colombia undertakes to abolish the absorption policy for the following products:
NANDINA Description
0207110000 Meat and edible offal of fowls of the species gallus domesticus , not cut in pieces, fresh
or chilled
0207120000 Meat and edible offal of fowls of the species gallus domesticus , not cut in pieces,
frozen
0207240000 Meat and edible offal of turkeys, not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled
0207250000 Meat and edible offal of turkeys, not cut in pieces, frozen
1001109000 Other durum wheat
1001902010 Wheat for forage
1001902090 Other wheat excluding durum wheat
1001903000 Meslin
1003009000 Other barley
1005901100 Hard yellow maize (corn)
1005901200 Hard white maize (corn)
1005909010 Other white maize (corn)
1005909090 Other maize (corn)
1006109000 Other rice in the husk
1006200000 Husked (brown) rice
1006300000 Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed
1006400000 Broken rice
1007009000 Other grain sorghum
1101000000 Wheat or meslin flour
1102200000 Maize (corn) flour
1103110000 Groats and meal of wheat
1103210000 Pellets of wheat
1107100000 Malt made from barley in grain form whether or not malting barley, not roasted
1107200000 Malt made from barley in grain form whether or not malting barley, roasted
1108110000 Wheat starch
1108120000 Maize (corn) starch
1108190000 Other starches
1109000000 Wheat gluten, whether or not dried
1201009000 Other soya beans (for other uses), whether or not broken
1205009000 Other rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken
1206009000 Other sunflower seeds, whether or not broken
1207999000 Other oilseeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken
1208900000 Other flours and meals of oilseeds and ol eaginous fruits, other than those of mustard
2309901000 Sweetened forage
2309902000 Pre-mixes used in animal feeding
2309909000 Other preparations of a kind used in animal feeding
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