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Lao People’s Democratic Republic

The Lao People's Democratic Republic's Working Party was established on 19 February 1998. The Memorandum on the Foreign Trade Regime was circulated in March 2001. Bilateral market access negotiations have begun on the basis of an initial offer on goods. The second meeting of the Working Party was held in November 2006 to continue the examination of Lao's foreign trade regime.

Laos is officially the “Lao People’s Democratic Republic” or “Lao PDR”, but familiarly “Laos”.

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1.	Application Received	16 July 1997
2.	Working Party Established Chairperson: H.E. Bruce Gosper (Australia, Jul 2006 —) Mr. T. Groser (N. Zealand, May 2004 — Jul 2006) Mr. G. Raby (Australia, Apr 1998 — May 2004)	19 February 1998
3.	Memorandum	28 March 2001
4.	Questions and Replies	2 October 2003
5.	Meetings of the Working Party	28 October 2004 30 November 2006
6.	Documentation (other)
	(a) Additional Questions & Replies	31 July 2006 31 October 2006
	(b) Agriculture (WT/ACC/4)	19 July 2006
	(c) Services (WT/ACC/5)
	(d) SPS/TBT (WT/ACC/8)	27 July 2006
	(e) TRIPS (WT/ACC/9)	27 July 2006
	(f) Legislative Action Plan	30 October 2006
7.	Market Access Negotiations
	Goods Offer	3 November 2006
	Services Offer
8.	Factual Summary
9.	Draft Working Party Report

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