The new chairs to the subsidiary bodies will take office when they have been formally elected by the committee or working party concerned. They are:

• Market Access Committee:  Mr Fernando Bruno Escobar Pacheco (Bolivia)
• Agriculture Committee:  Mrs Christiane Daleiden Distefano (Luxembourg)
• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Committee:  Mr Daniel Arboleda (Colombia)
• Technical Barriers to Trade Committee:  Mr Sung hwa Jang (Republic of Korea)
• Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) Committee: Ms Tiziana Zugliano (Italy)
• Antidumping Committee:  Ms Lenka Šustrová (Czech Republic)
• Customs Valuation Committee: Mr Baroma Winega Bamana (Togo)
• Rules of Origin Committee:  Ms Uma Shankari Muniandy (Singapore)
• Import Licensing Committee:  Ms Carol Tsang (Hong Kong, China)
• Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Committee:  Ms Michèle Legault Dooley (Canada)
• Safeguards Committee: Ms Katherine Dellar (Australia)
• Working Group on State Trading Enterprises:  Dr Kristian Henk (Austria)
• Trade Facilitation Committee: HE Mr Mohammad Qurban Haqjo (Afghanistan)
• Information Technology Agreement Committee: Mr Kazunori Fukuda (Japan)

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