GATT/AIR/3680/REV.1 21 APRIL 1995

SUBJECT: TOKYO ROUND COMMITTEE ON IMPORT LICENSING

 

1. THE THIRTY-SIXTH MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE ON IMPORT LICENSING, INITIALLY INTENDED FOR MONDAY, 24 APRIL 1995, WILL NOW BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 1995 IN THE CENTRE WILLIAM RAPPARD, STARTING IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE FIRST MEETING OF THE WTO COMMITTEE ON IMPORT LICENSING WHICH WILL BEGIN AT 10 A. M.

2. THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE PROPOSED FOR THE AGENDA:

A. ELECTION OF OFFICERS

B. STATUS OF SIGNATORIES AND OBSERVERS

- ACCEPTANCE OF THE AGREEMENT BY SLOVENIA (LIC/23)

- WITHDRAWAL FROM THE AGREEMENT BY THE UNITED STATES (LIC/24)

- OBSERVER STATUS FOR THE UNITED STATES

C. DECISION ON "TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS - AVOIDANCE OF PROCEDURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL DUPLICATION" (PC/11)

D. REPLIES TO THE GATT IMPORT LICENSING QUESTIONNAIRE FROM:

- HONG KONG (L/5640/ADD.36/REV.8)

E. PREPARATIONS FOR THE EIGHTH BIENNIAL REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION OF THE AGREEMENT

F. TERMINATION OF THE TOKYO ROUND AGREEMENT (LIC/W/73)

G. DATE OF NEXT MEETING

3. THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING WERE CIRCULATED IN LIC/M/35.

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

5. 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).

PETER D. SUTHERLAND