RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE WT/ACC/ALB/11
10July1996
ORGANIZATION(96-2701)
Original: English
ACCESSION OFALBANIA
Communication from Albania
Thefollowing communication hasbeenreceived fromtheMinistry ofIndustry, Transport and
Trade oftheRepublic ofAlbania.
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Inresponse torequests bytheWorking Party, andinsupport ofthebilateral negotiations on
market access, Iamtransmitting comprehensive dataonrecent Albanian trade performance.
Thedataiscontained inthethreeenclosed computer diskettes (program ASCI). Thedatacovers
imports andexports bycountry andbycommodity (both industrial andagricultural) forthethirdand
fourth quarters of1995 andthefirstquarter of1996. Thedataispresented intables which indicate,
reading fromlefttoright: region oforigin (forimports) ordestination (forexports); country oforigin
ordestination; harmonized system codenumber; description ofcommodity (inAlbanian); quantity
imported orexported forthatperiod (netandgross); andvalue (inlek). With thisdatawebelieve
thattheWorkingPartyhasacompletepictureofAlbania'sinternationalcommoditytradeflows,including
main supplier andrecipient countries.
Inaddition wehaveenclosed several national publications which canbeusedtocomplete the
WTO library 'seconomic dossier onAlbania. These publications giverecent dataonmain economic
indicators andbalance-of-payments statistics. Thename, address, telephone andfaxnumbers forthe
relevant Albanian institutions (National Institute ofStatistics, Bank ofAlbania) arealsoenclosed.
Additional copies ofthecomplete Albanian customs nomenclature andtariffschedule arebeing
sentunder separate cover.
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Theabove documentation isavailable intheSecretariat (Accessions Division, Room 1126)
forconsultation.