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Nepal

The Kingdom of Nepal submitted, on 24 March, its acceptance of the terms and conditions of membership set out in the Accession Protocol which was approved by the Ministerial Conference on 11 September 2003 and signed by the Kingdom of Nepal subject to ratification.

The Kingdom of Nepal became the 147th member of the WTO on 23 April 2004. Nepal is the first LDC to join the WTO through the full working party negotiation process.

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> Nepal main page

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1.	Application Received	16 May 1989
2.	Working Party Established Chairperson: H.E. Mr. P.-L. Girard (Switzerland)	21-22 June 1989
3.	Memorandum	26 February 1990 10 August 1998
4.	Questions and Replies	8 June 1999
5.	Meetings of the Working Party	22 May 2000 12 September 2002
6.	Documentation (other)
	(a) Additional Questions & Replies	15 October 2001
	(b) Agriculture (WT/ACC/4)	17 September 1998 8 July 1999
	(c) Services (WT/ACC/5)
	(d) SPS/TBT (WT/ACC/8)	12 April 2000
	(e) TRIPS (WT/ACC/9)	12 April 2000
	(f) Legislative Action Plan	21 May 2002 5 May 2003
7.	Negotiations on Goods
	(a) Tariff Offers	7 July 2000 13 May 2002 6 May 2003
	(b) Draft Goods Schedule
8.	Negotiations on Services
8.	Draft Services Schedule	7 July 2000 21 May 2002 6 May 2003
9.	Factual Summary
10.	Draft Working Party Report

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