WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/MA/NTM/QR/1/Add.8
1 March 2002
(02-1031)
Committee on Market Access
NOTIFICATIONS OF QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS
Note by the Secretariat
Addendum
1. Following the Decision on Notifi cation Procedures for Quantitative Restrictions, adopted by the
Council for Trade in Goods (G/L/59), Members shall make comple te notifications of the quantitative
restrictions which they maintain by 31 January 1996 and at two-yearly intervals thereafter1, and shall
notify changes to their quantitative restrictions as and when these changes occur.  Members which have
made, under other WTO provisions, notifications of quantitative restrictions which fulfil the
requirements for quantitative restriction notifica tions under the 1984 and 1985 decisions and which are
up-to-date, shall notify the fact to the Secretariat.  These notifications will be stored in the new database
of quantitative restrictions.
2. According to the Decision, "the Secretariat shall publish   periodically  a document listing the
WTO Members having made a notification.  The Secretariat shall make available to Members, as and
when requested, on paper or computer tape, detailed extracts of the quantitative restrictions data base.
The notifications themselves shall be available for consultation in the Secretariat."
3. In addition to those Members listed in G/MA/NTM/QR/1, Add.1 - A dd.7, notifications of
quantitative restrictions have also been received from the following Members:
Germany-EEC Oman
Hong Kong, China Switzerland
Japan
4. Notifications of changes to their quantitative restrictions were received by the following
Members:
Kingdom of Bahrain Morocco
Macao, China Tunisia
5. The following Members have notified that they do not maintain quantitative restrictions.
Burundi Gabon Myanmar
Dominica Madagascar Uganda
Estonia Mongolia Zimbabwe
6. Members that have not yet not notified under th e Decision contained in G/L/59 are urged to do
so as soon as possible.
7. These notifications are available for Members' consultation in the Market Access Division
(contact Mrs. Perrin, Room 3142, ext. 5041).
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1 By 31 January 1998, by 31 January 2000, by 31 January 2002.