GATT/AIR/2733 2 FEBRUARY 1989

SUBJECT: COMMITTEE ON IMPORT LICENSING

1. THE COMMITTEE ON IMPORT LICENSING WILL HOLD ITS TWENTY-THIRD MEETING ON FRIDAY, 3 MARCH 1989, BEGINNING AT 10 A.M. IN THE CENTRE WILLIAM RAPPARD.

2. THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE PROPOSED FOR THE AGENDA:

A. ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN AND VICE-CHAIRMAN;

B. STATUS OF SIGNATORIES AND OBSERVERS;

C. INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON IMPORT LICENSING PROCEDURES (LIC/3/ADD.21). SINCE THE LAST MEETING, NEW REPLIES TO THE GATT IMPORT LICENSING QUESTIONNAIRE HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM ARGENTINA (L/5640/ADD.27/CORR.2), FINLAND (L/5640/ADD.6/REV.1), HUNGARY (L/5640/ADD.12/Rev.1), INDIA (L/5640/ADD.7/REV.3) AND THE UNITED STATES (L/5640/ADD.40/SUPPL.2);

D. IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION OF THE AGREEMENT (SEE LIC/M/22, PARAGRAPHS 6-10; LIC/W/45, COMMUNICATION FROM FINLAND);

E. WORK PROGRAMME (SEE LIC/M/22, PARAGRAPHS 11-14; LIC/W/46, NOTE BY THE SECRETARIAT);

F. RELATIONSHIP OF THE COMMITTEE'S WORK TO THE URUGUAY ROUND (SEE LIC/M/22, PARAGRAPHS 15-19);

G. PREPARATION FOR BIENNIAL REVIEW OF THE AGREEMENT TO TAKE PLACE IN AUTUMN 1989;

H. OTHER BUSINESS, INCLUDING DATE AND AGENDA FOR NEXT MEETING.

3. SIGNATORIES OF THE AGREEMENT AND OBSERVERS ARE REQUESTED TO INFORM ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OF THE NAMES OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES.

4. OBSERVERS FROM THE IMF AND UNCTAD ARE BEING INVITED BY THE CHAIRMAN TO ATTEND THIS MEETING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURES ADOPTED BY THE COMMITTEE (LIC/M/2).

 

 

A. DUNKEL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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