These chairs will take office when they have been formally elected by the committee or working party concerned:

• Market Access Committee: Mr Ahmed El Libedy (Egypt)
• Agriculture Committee: Mr Alf Vederhus (Norway)
• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Committee: Mr Marcial Espínola Ramirez (Paraguay)
• Technical Barriers to Trade Committee: Mr Jose Manuel Campos Abad (Chile)
• Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) Committee: Mr Ali Alwaleed Al-Thani (Qatar)
• Anti-dumping Practices Committee: Mr Faisal Saud Sulaiman Al-Nabhani (Oman)
• Customs Valuation Committee: Ms María Luciana Nader Leandri (Uruguay)
• Rules of Origin Committee: Mr Gerald Pajuelo (Peru)
• Import Licensing Committee: Mr Fawaz Almuballi (Saudi Arabia)
• Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Committee: Ms Ieva Baršauskaitė (Lithuania)
• Committee on Safeguards: Mr Kensuke Tsunoda (Japan)
• Working Group on State Trading Enterprises: Ms Rike Octaviana (Indonesia)
• Information Technology Agreement (ITA): Ms Zsófia Tvaruskó (Hungary)

Aside from these 13 bodies, the newly created Committee on Trade Facilitation will also be reporting to the Goods Council. Members on 7 April had noted their consensus on appointing Ambassador Daniel Blockert (Sweden) as the chair of that committee. They had also noted their consensus on appointing Republic of Korea ambassador Kyonglim Choi as the new Goods Council chair. Ambassador Choi chaired the 11 May Goods Council meeting. Next year, the chair of the Goods Council will need to conduct consultations on 14 chairmanships of its subsidiary bodies.

More information on the Goods Council and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is available here.