WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/L/577/Add.1
14 July 2003
(03-3819)
REPORT (2002) OF THE COMMITTEE OF PARTICIPANTS ON THE EXPANSION
OF TRADE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS
Addendum
Further to the Report (2002) of the Committee of  Participants on the Expansion of Trade in
Information Technology Products, as circulated G/L/577, the Committee held two more meetings, on
28 January and 24 April 2003.  During these two meetin gs, the following took place: a) the election of
Mr. Yoshikawa of Japan as Chairman for 2003, b) the a ddition of China and Egypt as participants to the
Committee, thus bringing the number of participants to the Ministerial Declaration to fifty-nine, c) the
continuation of work on NTMs including the exam ination of a revised overview paper of the
submissions, d) a workshop on EMC/ EMI was held in order to make further progress on this NTM
under the pilot project, e) work on classification divergences continued and the Committee began its
examination of the report from customs experts, f) the review of the status of implementation continued
at each meeting, and g) the issue of the review of product coverage continued to be addressed under
"other business".
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