GATT/AIR/2610 24 MAY 1988

SUBJECT: TECHNICAL GROUP ON QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS AND OTHER NON-TARIFF

MEASURES

1. COMPLETE NOTIFICATIONS BY ALL CONTRACTING PARTIES OF THE QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS WHICH THEY MAINTAIN WERE DUE BY 30 APRIL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONTRACTING PARTIES' DECISION OF 30 NOVEMBER 1984 (BISD, 31S, P.222 AND GATT/AIR/2566). TO FACILITATE THE TASK OF CONTRACTING PARTIES, THE SECRETARIAT SENT TO EACH DELEGATION, IN MARCH, THE RELEVANT EXTRACT OF THE DATA BASE FOR UP-DATING.

2. CONTRACTING PARTIES ARE URGED TO SUBMIT THEIR NOTIFICATIONS SOON SO

THAT THE WORK ON UPDATING THE BASIC DOCUMENTATION CAN BE COMPLETED IN TIME

TO HOLD THE NEXT MULTILATERAL REVIEW IM THE AUTUMN.

3. THE 1984 DECISION OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES CALLS FOR NOTIFICATIONS EITHER TO BE MADE IN CCCN OR, IF NOT, FOR THE CORRESPONDING CCCN TO BE INDICATED. SINCE THAT TIME, HOWEVER, THE HARMONIZED SYSTEM HAS BEEN INTRODUCED. THE SECRETARIAT UNDERSTANDS THAT SOME CONTRACTING PARTIES WILL BE NOTIFYING THEIR QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS IN THE HARMONIZED SYSTEM ONLY. IT, THEREFORE, PROPOSES TO PRODUCE TWO SETS OF BASIC DOCUMENTS, ONE IN CCCN AND ONE IN THE HARMONIZED SYSTEM, AND WORK IS UNDERWAY TO THIS END. THE SECRETARIAT WILL ALSO UPDATE THE ANALYSES OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE BASIC DOCUMENTS, TO THE EXTENT THAT RESOURCES PERMIT. FOR THE DOCUMENTATION TO BE CONSISTENT, IT IS NECESSARY THAT FOR EACH COUNTRY THE WHOLE NOTIFICATION IS MADE OR UP-DATED IN THE SAME NOMENCLATURE.

4. DELEGATIONS ARE INVITED TO INFORM THE SECRETARIAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,

WHEN THEY EXPECT TO SUBMIT THEIR NOTIFICATIONS, AND WHETHER THEY WILL BE

DOING SO IN CCCN OR IN THE HARMONIZED SYSTEM.

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