WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONGPA/W/166
25 October 2001
(01-5225)
Committee on Government Procurement Original:  English
COMMUNICATION FROM THE UNITED STATES
The following communication, dated 19 October 2001, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the United States with the request that it be circulated to the Committee on Government
Procurement.
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Pursuant to Article XXIV:6, and on the basis of information provided by Japan, the
United States hereby withdraws its objection, co mmunicated in GPA/W/95, to the modification to
Appendix I of the Agreement on Government Procurement that had been proposed by Japan inGPA/W/91, dated 6 September 1999, relating to NTT Communications Corporation.  The
United States would like to thank the Government of Japan for its thorough responses to questions
that the United States posed in GPA/W100 and GPA/W100/Add.1, as well as for engaging in
extensive bilateral discussions on this issue.
The United States notes that withdrawal of this objection is based on a detailed evaluation of
the particular circumstances relating to NTT Co mmunications Corporation and is without prejudice to
US views on any other proposal for potential modification of GPA coverage.
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