RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/RO/M/31/Corr.1∗
19 October 2000
(00-4327)
Committee on Rules of Origin
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF 18 JULY 2000
Corrigendum
Paragraph 1.3 of document G/RO/M/31 should be replaced by the following text:
"The representative of the European Communities, facilitator for the informal
plurilateral discussions for overall architecture, recognized that many technical questions had
been clarified through extensive discussions ov er the past two years.  However, two main
obstacles, Rules 2(c) and (f) of Appendix 2 (concerning respectively the origin-retainingprinciple and the final residual rule based on the major portion principle), remained unsolved,
principally due to the hesitation of one delegation to join the consensus.  She was nevertheless
hopeful that the problem could be overcome in the near future.  The European Communities,
therefore, agreed that priority should be given to the overall architecture whose finalization
would reinstate the "momentum" lost after the Seattle failure."
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