 
  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/MA/W/54/Add.1 
6 October 2004 
 
 (04-4178) 
Committee on Market Access Original:   English 
  
 
DISSEMINATION OF THE INTEGRATED DATA BASE (IDB) AND  
THE CONSOLIDATED TARIFF SC HEDULES (CTS) DATABASE 
 
Communication from the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery
 
 
Addendum  
 
  The following communication, dated 15 Se ptember 2004, was received from the Caribbean 
Regional Negotiating Machinery in response to a letter by the Chairman and is being circulated at his 
request. 
 
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  I refer to your letter of 16 July 2004 and the letter of Mr. Guy Karsenty of the Economics and 
Statistics Division of 20 July 2004 enclosing copi es of the June 2004 releases of the IDB and CTS 
databases.  I wish to express the thanks of the CRNM that our request for access to these databases 
has been approved by the WTO Mark et Access Committee.  This data will prove extremely useful in 
our work.  
 In response to your question on data available at the CRNM, it is with regret that I must 
inform you that the CRNM does not collect or stor e data on the Caribbean c ountries or elsewhere.  It 
is the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (C ARICOM) that is responsible for collection and 
management of economic data on its member stat es.  Whilst the CRNM liaises frequently with the 
CARICOM Secretariat during the course of its work , the two are distinct organisations and as such, 
the CRNM is unfortunately unable to offer th e WTO access to data held by the CARICOM 
Secretariat. 
 
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