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ORGANIZATIONG/IT/1/Rev.9
22 April 1999
(99-1652)
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in
Information Technology Products
STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION
Note by the Secretariat
Revision
1. As of 15 April 1999, the ITA had 31 participants (covering 46 Members and States or
separate customs territories in the process of acceding to the WTO) representing approximately
93 percent of world trade in information technology products.  Out of these 31, the formal
rectification and modification documents of the following 26 participants have been received andcirculated:
Australia Indonesia Poland
1
Canada Israel Romania2
Costa Rica Japan Singapore
Czech Republic1Korea Slovak Republic1
El Salvador Macau Switzerland2
European Communities Malaysia1Thailand1
Hong Kong, China New Zealand Turkey
Iceland Norway United States
India Philippines
Of the above, El Salvador and Poland, have indicated that implementation would begin after
the completion of domestic procedural requirements.3
2. The above mentioned participants that are currently Members of the WTO have submitted
their schedules for rectification and modification pursuant to the Decision of 26 March 1980 on
Procedures for Modification and Rectification of Schedules of Tariff Concessions (BISD 27S/25).
Estonia and the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu are not currently
Members of the WTO and are therefore not expected to submit documentation for rectification ormodification of schedules.
4  Latvia and the Kyrgyz Republic incorporated their commitments in their
schedules annexed to their Protocols of Accession, and therefore it was not necessary to follow the
                                                     
1First rate reduction occurred on 1 January 1998.
2First rate reduction occurred on 31 December 1997.
3India, Israel, Philippines, Switzerland, and Turkey which had also made such a notification, have
subsequently notified that these procedural requirements have been completed.
4For those participants that are not Members of the WT O, the Declaration states that:  "Each participant
that is not a Member of the WTO shall implement these measures on an autonomous basis, pending completion
of its WTO accession, and shall incorporate these meas ures into its WTO market access schedule for goods."G/IT/1/Rev.9
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procedures for rectification and modification of tariff schedules.  Panama has not yet submitted its
formal documentation.
3. Letters of acceptance, in accordance with the provision of paragraph 10 of the Annex to the
Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Produc ts, have been received from all participants
except three.
4. The following documentation5, noted as being submitted under item 1 above, has been
formally certified by the Director-General:
Australia; Canada; Costa Rica; Czech Republic; European Communities; Hong Kong, China;
Iceland; India; Indonesia; Israel; Japan; Korea; Macau; Malaysia; New Zealand; Norway;
Romania; Singapore; Slovak Republic; Swit zerland; Thailand; Turkey; United States.
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5 The certification of the schedule of the Philippines is in progress after recently receiving a
communication from the Philippines indicating that they  had completed their necessary domestic procedural
requirements.