MARKET ACCESS: QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
Capacity building workshop on the notification of Quantitative Restrictions
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Programme
10:00-10:15 - Opening remarks
Speaker:
- Michael Cannon (Canada)
10:15-11:00 - Introduction to quantitative restrictions and the notification requirements
- Article XI of the GATT 1994
- The 2012 Decision on the Notification of Quantitative Restrictions (G/L/59/Rev.1)
- Overview of the notifications submitted to the WTO
Speaker:
- Roy Santana (Market Access Division)
Presentaiton - Roberta Lascari (Market Access Division)
Presentaiton
11:00-12:00 - What is a quantitative restriction? Jurisprudence on the interpretation of Article XI of the GATT 1994 and possible justifications
Speaker:
- Gabrielle Marceau (Legal Affairs Division)
Presentaiton - Julia Kuelzow (Legal Affairs Division)
Presentaiton
12:00-13:00 - Q&A session
15:00-16:00 - Panel session: Linkages to other WTO notifications
- Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures
- Agreement on Agriculture
- Agreement on Safeguards
Speaker:
- Xiaodong Wang (Market Access Division);
Presentaiton - Cédric Pene (Agriculture Division);
Presentaiton - Hiromi Yano (Rules Division)
Presentaiton
16:00-17:00 - Panel session: Sources of information on quantitative restrictions
- Trade Policy Reviews
- The Trade Monitoring exercise
- Prohibitions or restrictions resulting from non-WTO international conventions (e.g. CITES, Montreal Protocol, etc.)
Speaker:
- Masahiro Hayafuji (Trade Policy Review Division);
- Antonia Diakantoni (Trade Policy Review Division);
Presentaiton - Sajal Mathur (Trade and Environment)
Presentaiton
Q&A session with Panelists
17:00-18:00 - Panel session: How to improve national coordination?
- Experience sharing by WTO Members that have notified QRs
Speaker:
- Anne-Sophie Dreyfus Roth (Switzerland);
- Heidi Ip (Hong Kong, China);
Presentaiton - Veronique Brutus (Seychelles);
- Justin D. Hoffmann (United States)