WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/REG126/3/Corr.1∗
26 March 2003
(03-1739)
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EFTA STATES AND MEXICO
GOODS ASPECTS
Corrigendum
Page 5, Section III, Article 5 - General Provisi ons of the Agreement, Institutional Framework.
The last sentence of the paragraph should read:
"The Joint Committee is to keep under review the removal of further barriers to trade between
the EFTA States and Mexico."
Page 6, Section IV, Article 4 - Other, Competition. The first sentence should read:
"Chapter IV on competition includes the Parties' commitment to avoid that the benefits of the
Agreement are undermined by anticompetitive business conduct."
Page 6, Section IV - Other.  The following subtitle and text should be included:
"6. Government Procurement
Chapter V of the Agreement apply any law, regulation, procedure or practice regarding
government procurement made by entities of goods, services and construction services, as provided
for in Annexes XII to XX.  Each Party will pr ovide access to the respective covered procurement
market, considering those procurements above the threshold foreseen in Annex XVI, and at central or
federal level and governmental enterprises.
The Chapter includes inter alia  the following provisions: principles of non-discrimination and
national treatment (Article 57), procurement procedures (Article 61), and bid challenge procedures
(Article 62).  Other provisions such as the subm ission of information and technical co-operation are
included."
Page 8, Annex, EFTA States' trade with Mexico by selected commodities (HS). In the table
"Exports – Switzerland", the relevant title for HS 91 is Clocks and Watches (instead of Misc. articles
of base metal).
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