RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONGPA/W/139
18 June 2001
(01-3009)
Committee on Government Procurement Original:  English
COMMUNICATION FROM THE UNITED STATES
The following communication, dated 15 June 2001, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the United States with the request that it be circulated to the Committee on Government
Procurement.
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On the basis of information provided by Japan, the United States of America withdraws its
objection, communicated in GPA/W/132, to the modi fications to Appendix I of the Agreement on
Government Procurement that had been proposed by Japan in GPA/W/129.  The United States
appreciates Japan's thorough responses to the questions that had been posed by the United States and
other delegations, in relation to these modifications.
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