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Bhutan

Bhutan's Working Party was established on 6 October 1999. Bhutan submitted a Memorandum on the Foreign Trade Regime in February 2003. Bilateral market access negotiations are ongoing on the basis of revised offers in goods and services. An Elements of a draft Working Party Report (a detailed document summarizing discussions in the Working Party) was circulated informally in September 2006. The Working Party held its third meeting in October 2006 to continue the examination of Bhutan's foreign trade regime.

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1.	Application Received	17 September 1999
2.	Working Party Established Chairperson: H.E. Mr. W. Petritsch (Austria, May 2003 —) Mr. Kreid (Austria, Oct 2000 — May 2003)	6 October 1999
3.	Memorandum	27 February 2003
4.	Questions and Replies	13 April 2004
5.	Meetings of the Working Party	8 November 2004 6 October 2005 20 October 2006
6.	Documentation (other)
	(a) Additional Questions & Replies	20 April 2005 25 July 2006 13 April 2007
	(b) Agriculture (WT/ACC/4)	31 August 2005 13 April 2007
	(c) Services (WT/ACC/5)
	(d) SPS/TBT (WT/ACC/8)	13 April 2004 13 April 2004
	(e) TRIPS (WT/ACC/9)	13 April 2004
	(f) Legislative Action Plan	13 April 2004 22 August 2005 6 June 2006 22 August 2005 25 July 2006 22 August 2005 25 July 2006 31 August 2005 13 September 2005 25 July 2006
7.	Market Access Negotiations
	Goods Offer	31 August 2005 30 April 2007
	Services Offer	31 August 2005 30 April 2007
8.	Factual Summary	8 August 2005
9.	Draft Working Party Report	28 September 2006

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