RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/TRIMS/W/2
4October 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-2934)
Committee onTrade-Related Investment Measures
ANNUAL REPORT TOTHE COUNCIL FOR TRADE INGOODS
Draft
General
1. ThisReport issubmitted pursuant toArticle 7.3oftheAgreement onTrade-Related Investment
Measures, which requires theCommittee onTrade-Related Investment Measures toreport annually
totheCouncil forTrade inGoods. Theperiod covered inthisfirstReport isJanuary-October 1995.
2. TheCommittee elected Mr.Vassili Notis (Greece) Chairman.
3. TheCommittee heldformal meetings on3March, 15June[and19October].1
4. Participation intheCommittee isopentoallWTO Members. During theperiod January-July,
certain non-WTO Members participated inthework oftheCommittee inaccordance withtheDecision
oftheWTOGeneralCouncilof31January1995onParticipationinMeetingsofWTOBodiesbyCertain
Signatories oftheFinal ActEligible toBecome Original Members oftheWTO.2Inaddition, the
Committee agreed thatGovernments granted observer status bytheWTO General Council would be
allowed toattend meetings oftheCommittee asobservers, without prejudice tothepossibility ofholding
closed sessions without thepresence ofobservers.
5. Representatives oftheWorld Bank andIMFattended thefirstmeeting oftheCommittee in
anobserver capacity, following adecision bytheCouncil forTrade inGoods.3Inaccordance with
interim procedures agreed upon bytheGeneral Council inApril regarding theparticipation of
international intergovernmental organizations inmeetings ofWTO bodies4,representatives oftheWorld
Bank, IMF, OECD, UNandUNCTAD attended thesecond andthirdmeetings oftheCommittee as
observers.
[6. Atitsmeeting inOctober, theCommittee adopted itsrulesofprocedure, subject toapproval
bytheCouncil forTrade inGoods.]
1G/TRIMS/M/1-3
2WT/L/27
3G/C/M/1, paragraph 13.4
4WT/GC/M/3, page 3G/TRIMS/W/2
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Notifications
7. TheCouncil forTrade inGoods instructed theCommittee tocarry outthetasks assigned
under theAgreement totheCouncil withrespect tonotifications.5
8. Article 5.1oftheAgreement onTrade-Related Investment Measures requires Members to
notify anytrade-related investment measure inconsistent withtheAgreement within 90daysafterthe
entry intoforce oftheWTO Agreement.
9. TheCommittee endorsed astandard format fornotifications under Article 5.1.6TheCommittee
submitted totheGeneral Council through theCouncil forTrade inGoods arecommendation inregard
totheoperation ofthedeadline fornotifications under Article 5.1incaseofcountries eligible tobecome
original WTO Members thataccepted theWTO Agreement after1January 1995. Thisrecommendation
wasadopted bytheGeneral Council atitsmeeting on3April.7
10. [Twenty-five] Members havesubmitted notifications under Article 5.1.8Delegations generally
expressed satisfaction withthenumber andquality ofthese notifications. Several delegations raised
questions ofafactual nature anditwasnoted thatsome notifications didnotconform totheagreed
standard format. Comments werealsomade ontheimplications ofthesubmission oftwonotifications
onadateaftertheexpiry ofthetime-limit provided forinArticle 5.1.
11. Article 5.5oftheAgreement requires notification oftrade-related investment measures which
areapplied tonewinvestments during thetransition period provided inArticle 5.2tonewinvestments.
[TheCommittee adopted astandard format fornotifications under thisprovision.9]
12. Article 6.2oftheAgreement provides fornotification totheSecretariat ofpublications inwhich
information ontrade-related investment measures canbefound. TheCommittee discussed howbest
toimplement thisrequirement.
Dispute Settlement
13. Nodispute hasarisen under theAgreement during theperiod under review.
Future Meetings
14. TheCommittee agreed toholdregular meetings in1996 [on.....and.....].
5G/C/M/1, paragraphs 2.1-3
6G/TRIMS/1
7WT/L/64
8SeeAnnex
9[document reference]G/TRIMS/W/2
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ANNEX
NOTIFICATIONS RECEIVED UNDER ARTICLE 5.1OFTHE AGREEMENT
ONTRADE-RELATED INVESTMENT MEASURES
Member Document Symbol Date Issued
Argentina G/TRIMS/N/1/ARG/1 10April 1995
Barbados G/TRIMS/N/1/BRB/1 25April 1995
Switzerland G/TRIMS/N/1/CHE/1 11September 1995
Colombia G/TRIMS/N/1/COL/1 11April 1995
Colombia G/TRIMS/N/1/COL/Add.1 2August 1995
Colombia G/TRIMS/N/1/COL/2 21September 1995
Costa Rica G/TRIMS/N/1/CRI/1 12April 1995
Cuba G/TRIMS/N/1/CUB/1 1August 1995
Cyprus G/TRIMS/N/1/CYP/1 10August 1995
Dominican Republic G/TRIMS/N/1/DOM/1 10May1995
Honduras G/TRIMS/N/1/HND/1 [2October 1995]
Indonesia G/TRIMS/N/1/IDN/1 1June1995
India G/TRIMS/N/1/IND/1 11April 1995
Mexico G/TRIMS/N/1/MEX/1 12April 1995
Mexico G/TRIMS/N/1/MEX/1/Rev.1 10May1995
Mauritius G/TRIMS/N/1/MUS/1 4April 1995
Malaysia G/TRIMS/N/1/MYS/1 12April 1995
Pakistan G/TRIMS/N/1/PAK/1 7April 1995
Peru G/TRIMS/N/1/PER/1 18April 1995
Philippines G/TRIMS/N/1/PHL/1 25April 1995
Romania G/TRIMS/N/1/ROM/1 7April 1995
Slovenia G/TRIMS/N/1/SVN/1 29March 1995G/TRIMS/W/2
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Member Document Symbol Date Issued
Thailand G/TRIMS/N/1/THA/1 28April 1995
Uruguay G/TRIMS/N/1/URY/1 10April 1995
Uruguay G/TRIMS/N/1/URY/1/Add.1 21September 1995
Venezuela G/TRIMS/N/1/VEN/1 12April 1995
South Africa G/TRIMS/N/1/ZAF/1 8May1995
Zambia G/TRIMS/N/1/ZMB/1 25April 1995