. /.No. ___________________WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SECRET/HS96/37/Add.1
25 February 2000
(00-0710)
Original:  Spanish
1996 CHANGES IN THE HARMONIZED SYSTEM
Submission of Documentation
Schedule LXXXV – Costa Rica
Addendum
The following communication, dated 9 January 2000, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of Costa Rica.
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Please find attached hereto an addendum to the proposed modification to Costa Rica'a
Schedule of tariff concessions annexed to the WTO Agreement, concerning the transposition to the
1996 Harmonized System (G/SE CRET/HS96/37).  This addendum supplements the proposed
modifications submitted by Costa Rica on 21 March 1997, through the inclusion of a number of Initial
Negotiating Rights, which were omitted by mistake from the original proposal.
The attached Note also forms an integral part of the addendum.
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If no objection is notified to the Secretariat within 90 days from the date of this document,
Schedule LXXXV – Costa Rica will be deemed to be approved and will be formally certified.
Copies of the documentation (in Spanish only) are available for collection in the Market
Access Division (Office No. 3142).G/SECRET/HS96/37/Add.1
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Note to the Addendum to Schedule G/SECRET/HS96/37
1. The following addendum to the proposed modification to Costa Rica's Schedule of tariff
concessions annexed to the WTO Agreement, concerning the transposition to the 1996 Harmonized
System (G/SECRET/HS96/37), contains the Initial Negotiating Rights included in Annex B toSchedule LXXXV – Costa Rica annexed to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Annex B:
Initial Negotiating Rights (INRs) for products in Schedule LXXXV – Costa Rica ), which are
incorporated for the first time in Schedule CR/89.
2. The Initial Negotiating Rights contained in the addendum are bound at the tariff rate of 55 per
cent in accordance with the conditions set forth in the note to Annex B to Schedule LXXXV –
Costa Rica.
3. Any matter not specified in this Note or in the addendum, concerning the products referred to
in the addendum, shall be understood to be covered by the conditions governing the binding of the
Costa Rican Tariff Schedule as a whole, in accordance with the instruments containing such binding.
The conditions concerned include the generalized tariff, the period of application and other duties and
charges.
4. This Note forms an integral part of the addendum to the proposed modification to
Costa Rica's Schedule of tariff concessions (G/SECRET/HS96/37).
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