No. ____________________WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SECRET/HS96/48/Rev.1
4 June 2002
(02-3059)
Original:  Spanish
1996 CHANGES TO THE HARMONIZED SYSTEM
Schedule CXLI - Panama
Submission of Documents
Revision
The following communication, dated 19 April 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of Panama.
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As a follow-up to our communication MPP-OMC-02-057 of 21 February 2002 concerning the
submission by the Government of Panama to the Committee on Market Access of the supporting
documentation1 for Harmonized System 1996 changes required to request a waiver, I have the
pleasure to transmit herewith the documentation in 12 electronic files, thereby completing the
correlation of the tariff headings submitted by Panama in its Schedule of Concessions between the
1992 Harmonized System and the 1996 Harmonized Syst em and vice versa. As regards the import
tariff headings which do not appear in the Schedule, Panama maintains its commitment to reduce the
bound rates from 40 per cent to 30 per cent over five years.
I should be grateful if the Chair would submit this documentation to the Committee on
Market Access at its next meeting and reiterate the Government of Panama's request for a waiver withrespect to the introduction of Harmonized System 1996 changes to its Schedule of Concessions.
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If no objection is notified to the Secretariat within 90 days of the date of this document, the
modifications to Schedule CXLI - Panama will be deemed to be approved and will be formally
certified.
Copies of the above-mentioned documentation are available in electronic form (Excel) or
hard copy in the Market Access Division (Ms. D. Wood, Office 3142).
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1 In Spanish only.