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Internet:  http://www.wto.orgReference:   WLI/100 12 April 2000
MARRAKESH AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING
THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
DONE AT MARRAKESH ON 15 APRIL 1994
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE 1994
CERTIFICATION OF MODIFICATIONS AND RECTIFICATIONS
TRANSMISSION OF CERTIFIED TRUE COPY
I have the honour to furnish herewith a certified true copy of the Certification of Modifications
and Rectifications to Schedule XX-United States, done at Geneva on 22 March 2000.
Mike Moore
Director-General
00-1536 WT/Let/336SCHEDULES OF TARIFF CONCESSIONS TO THE
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE 1994
CERTIFICATION OF MODIFICATIONS AND RECTIFICATIONS
SCHEDULE XX – UNITED STATES
WHEREAS the CONTRACTING PARTIES to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
1947 adopted, on 26 March 1980, a Decision on Procedures for Modification and Rectification ofSchedules of Tariff Concessions (BISD 27S/25);
WHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of the above-mentioned Decision, a draft
containing modifications and rectifications to Schedule XX – United States was communicated to allMembers of the World Trade Organization in document G/MA/TAR/RS/64 on 22 December 1999;
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the following modifications and rectifications to Schedule XX
– United States are established in conformity with the above-mentioned Decision:
A. Additional Note 2 to Chapter 84 shall be deleted in its entirety, and the concessions
on the items listed in Additional Note 2 shall be retained.
B. Additional Note 12 to Chapter 85 shall be modified to read as follows:
12. Implementation of the concessions on the subheading listed below is
conditional upon the provision by other major countries of adequate entity coverageunder the Agreement on Government Procurement:
ex 8518.90.10 (8518.90.40 in WT/Let/182): Other.
The result of this modification will be that the concessions on the subheadings which were
formerly listed in Additional Note 2 to Chapter 84, and the concessions on the subheadingsother than ex 8518.90.10 which were formerly listed in Additional Note 12 to Chapter 85, aremade unconditionally, effective as from 1 January 2000.
The above modifications and rectifications shall become effective on 22 March 2000.
This Certification is deposited with the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, who
shall promptly furnish a certified true copy thereof to each Member of the World Trade Organization.It shall be registered in accordance with the provisions of Article 102 of the Charter of the United
Nations.
DONE at Geneva this  twenty-second day of March, two thousand.
Mike Moore
Certified true copy:
Director-General