WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/MA/115/Add.2
3 December 2003
(03-6414)
Committee on Market Access Original:  English
DISSEMINATION OF THE INTEGRATED DATA BASE (IDB) AND
THE CONSOLIDATED TARIFF SCHEDULES (CTS) DATABASE
Note by the Secretariat1
Addendum
The Committee on Market Access at its formal meeting on 20 October 2003 approved the
request of the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau (ITCB) for full access to the Integrated Data
Base (IDB) and the Consolidated Tariff Schedules (CTS) database.2 The request is contained in
document G/MA/W/48.
The list of authorized users in paragraph 4 of documents G/MA/115 and G/MA/115/Add.1
has therefore changed and should now read as follows.
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B AUTHORIZED USERS
4. Authorized users are defined as:
a) all WTO Members;
b) Acceding countries or territories that have provided IDB submissions (hereafter referred to as
authorized Acceding countries);
c) the WTO Secretariat; and
d) the following intergovernmental organizations: Food and Agricultural Organization,
International Monetary Fund, International Textiles and Clothing Bureau, International TradeCenter, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development and World Bank.
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1 This document has been prepared under the Secretariat's own responsibility and without prejudice to
the positions of Members and to their rights and obligations under the WTO.
2 According to paragraph 5 of Document G/MA/115,  'Additional requests by other intergovernmental
organizations for access to the IDB and CTS database are subject to approval by the Committee on Market
Access on a case by case basis'.
3 In the spirit of inter-organizational co-operation, it is expected that other organizations that have been
granted access to the IDB and the CTS would give favour able consideration to gran ting similar access to their
own respective tariff and trade-related databases and analytical facilities to the WTO.