Proposed Agenda

I. Report by the Chairman of the Trade Negotiations Committee

II. Work programme on small economies — Report by the Chairman of the dedicated session of the Committee on Trade and Development

III. Work programme on special and differential treatment — report by the Chairman of the special session of the Committee on Trade and Development

IV. Non-recognition of rights under Article XXIV:6 and Article XXVIII of GATT 1994 — Communications from Honduras and Guatemala (WT/GC/85, WT/GC/90 and corr.1, WT/GC/100, WT/MIN(05)/9) — Statement by the Chairman

V. Transparency for preferential trade arrangements — Statement by the Chairman of the Committee on Trade and Development

VI. Committee on budget, finance and administration

A. Report of the committee on its meeting of May 2008 (WT/BFA/103)
B. Report of the committee on its meeting of July 2008  (WT/BFA/104)

VII. Waivers under article IX of the WTO agreement ¹

A. Introduction of harmonized system 1996 changes into WTO schedules of tariff concessions — Requests for extensions of waivers:

(i) Argentina (G/C/W/595)
(ii) Panama (G/C/W/596)

B. Senegal — Customs valuation agreement — Request for extension of waiver (G/C/W/581, G/C/W/582 and add.1, G/C/W/594)
C. Review of waivers pursuant to article IX:4 of the WTO agreement

(i) Preferential tariff treatment for least-developed countries, granted on 15 June 1999 until 30 June 2009 (WT/L/304)
(ii) Ldcs — Article 70.9 of the TRIPS agreement with respect to pharmaceutical products, granted on 8 July 2002 until 1 January 2016 (WT/L/478)
(iii) Albania — Implementation of specific concessions, granted on 26 May 2005 until 1 January 2009 (WT/L/610)
(iv) European communities — Preferences for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, granted on 28 July 2006 until 31 December 2011 (WT/L/654, WT/L/731/rev.1)
(v) United States — Former territory of the Pacific Islands, granted on 27 July 2007 until 31 December 2016 (WT/L/694, WT/L/730)
(vi) Mongolia — Export duties on raw cashmere, granted on 27 July 2007 until 29 January 2012 (WT/L/695)

VIII. International trade centre UNCTAD/WTO — Report of the joint advisory group on its forty-first session (ITC/AG(XLI)/216)

 

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