RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/GC/M/76/Corr.1
23 January 2003
(03-0378)
General Council
15 October 2002
MINUTES OF MEETING
Held in the Centre William Rappard
on 15 October 2002
Corrigendum
Item 1, paragraph 8
Paragraph 8 should read as follows:
The representative of Argentina said that Ar gentina had joined in the consensus which had
just approved the accession of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and wished to
congratulate the country and its authorities upon its entry into this Organization.  Argentina welcomed
the commitments made by the new Member, particularly those to the effect that it would not grant
new export subsidies and would remove any that it might currently be granting.  However, Argentina
saw a need to place on record its position with regard to the breakdown of the tariff lines for cheeses
and certain alcoholic beverages included in the Schedule of goods for the Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia, No. CLIV, document WT/ACC/807/27/Add.1, Part I-A (i.e. to the lines whose first six
digits were:  HS 04 06 40;  04 06 90;  22 04 10;  22 04 21; 22 04 29 and 22 08 20) and which werethen differentiated according to origin or the name of a region.  She had made the following statement
in this connection:  Argentina considered that this novel form of tariff classification was not provided
for in the current Harmonized System Nomenclature, which took into account exclusively the nature
and objective characteristics specific to the set of goods classified, without establishing any
differentiation based on origin.  For Argentina, the goods included in these tariff lines in the Scheduleof the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were in each case like products within the meaning of
the GATT 1994 and other relevant WTO instruments, in particular the Agreement on Technical
Barriers to Trade.  Any tariff differentiation that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia wished
to apply in future to Argentine products under this classification would be considered a violation of
Article I:1 of the GATT 1994.  Argentina's consent to the accession of the Former Yugoslav Republicof Macedonia could not be construed as a precedent for accepting any similar breakdown of tariff
lines in other ongoing accession negotiations.
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