GATT/AIR/3078 3 SEPTEMBER 1990

SUBJECT: URUGUAY ROUND NEGOTIATING GROUP ON NON-TARIFF MEASURES

1. THE NEXT MEETING OF THE NEGOTIATING GROUP ON NON-TARIFF MEASURES WILL START AT 3 P.M. ON 19 SEPTEMBER 1990, AND WILL CONTINUE IF NECESSARY AT 10 A.M. ON 20 SEPTEMBER. THE MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE CENTRE WILLIAM RAPPARD IN ADDITION TO THE JOINT MEETING OF THE NEGOTIATING GROUPS ON TARIFFS, NON-TARIFF MEASURES, NATURAL RESOURCE BASED PRODUCTS AND TROPICAL PRODUCTS WHICH WILL BE HELD LATER THE SAME WEEK AND WILL BE CONVENED BY A SEPARATE AIRGRAM.

2. AS SUGGESTED BY THE CHAIRMAN AT THE LAST MEETING OF THE NEGOTIATING GROUP, THE FOLLOWING AGENDA IS PROPOSED FOR THE MEETING:

(A) INFORMATION ON PROGRESS IN NEGOTIATIONS ON PRESHIPMENT INSPECTION

AND RULES OF ORIGIN;

(B) INFORMATION ON PROGRESS IN REQUEST-OFFER NEGOTIATIONS;

(C) EXAMINATION OF PROPOSALS ON THE SECURITY OF CONCESSIONS;

(D) EXAMINATION OF PROPOSALS ON THE RECOGNITION OF LIBERALIZATION

MEASURES;

(E) OTHER BUSINESS.

3. THE NOTE PREPARED BY THE SECRETARIAT ON THE LAST MEETING OF THE NEGOTIATING GROUP IS CONTAINED IN MTN.GNG/NG2/20.

4. GOVERNMENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WHICH WISH TO BE REPRESENTED AT THIS MEETING ARE INVITED TO INFORM ME OF THE NAMES OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

A. DUNKEL