WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/IT/7
10 February 1999
(99-0492)
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in
Information Technology ProductsOriginal:  English
COMMUNICATION FROM LATVIA
The following communication, dated 21 January 1999,  has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the Republic of Latvia.
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Hereby I would like to inform the Members of the Committee that the Notification of
Acceptance of the Protocol of Accession of Latvia to the WTO had been done on 11 January 1999,
and the said Protocol will enter into force on 10 February 1999.  Accordingly, Latvia's WTO tariff
schedule on Goods, Schedule CXLIII – Republic of Latvia together with the ITA schedule forming an
integral part of it, will be implemented by the Republic of Latvia on the same day – 10 February 1999.
I would like the Committee to consider this letter as a notification from the Republic of Latvia
on the implementation of its ITA schedule as of 10 February 1999 and ask the Members of the
Committee to consider the issue of Latvia's ITA participation during the next meeting of the
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products which is
foreseen to convene on 24 February 1999.
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