. /.RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/MA/NTM/W/3/Rev.1
23 January 2001
(01-0342)
Committee on Market Access
NOTIFICATIONS UNDER THE DECISION ON REVERSE NOTIFICATION
OF NON-TARIFF MEASURES (G/L/60)
Note by the Secretariat
Revision
1. Following the Decision on Reverse Notification of Non-Tariff Measures, adopted by the
Council for Trade in Goods (G/L/6 0), Members shall have the possibility of making notifications of
non-tariff measures maintained by other Members in so far as such measures are neither subject to
any existing WTO notification obligations nor to any other reverse notification possibilities under theWTO Agreement.  The Member maintaining the measures shall comment on each of the points
contained in the notification.   Such comments shall be included in the Inventory together with the
notification. In cases where the inclusion of the contents of the notification is challenged, further
information will be sought from the notifying member.  In these cases, the Members might hold
bilateral consultations with the aim of verifying the existence of the measure and its precise andcomplete description.  The result of these consultations shall be transmitted to the Secretariat for
appropriate action.
2. The new Inventory of Non-Tariff Measures that is open for notification as from the date of
this Decision covers all non-tariff measures relating to all products  (Chapters 1-97 of the HS
nomenclature).  It is made available to Members in a loose-leaf format in the 3 WTO languages;
amendments to the Inventory (including additions and deletions) shall be circulated to all Members bythe Secretariat.
3. According to the Decision, "the Committee shall, at two-yearly intervals on the occasion of
the review of the notifications of quantitative restrictions, review the reverse notifications of non-tariff
measures received, on the basis of Secretariat analyses similar to the analyses prepared for the GATTTechnical Group on Quantitative Restrictions and Other Non-Tariff Measures".
4. To this date, one Notification has been received from the following Member:
Notifying Non-tariff measure P roduct Maintaining Inventory(1)
Member Member numbering
Hong Kong, Legalization of Dominican II.D.
China Commercial Invoices; Republic
Consular Invoices andBills of Lading; Consular Fees
Legalization of Commercial Egypt II.D
Invoices and Certificates of Kuwait II.D
Origin and Fees
                                                     
1 Numbering of the Inventory according to the Table of Contents of the Inventory of Non-tariff
Measures created and used in GATT document series NTM/INV/-.G/MA/NTM/W/3/Rev.1
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5. All the Members maintaining the measures have commented on the points raised in the
notification by Hong Kong, China.
6. These notifications and comments are available for Members' consultation in the Market
Access Division (contact Mrs. Perrin, Room 3142, ext. 5041).
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