RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/MA/TAR/W/3
13April 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-0927)
Committee onMarket Access
TRANSPOSITION OFSCHEDULES INTO THE 1996 HARMONIZED
SYSTEM AND ESTABLISHMENT OFLOOSE-LEAF SCHEDULES
Additional Note bytheSecretariat
Inaddition totheinformation contained indocument TAR/W/93, dated 13October 1994, the
Secretariat hasprepared thefollowing noteshowing therevised listofcountries andthework tobe
carried outinconnection withtheconsolidation ofschedules, theintroduction ofHS96 changes and
thepreparation ofschedules inloose-leaf format.
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1. Themembers listed below haveoffered ceiling bindings inthecontext oftheUruguay Round
negotiations andtheirschedules arenotaffected bytheHSchanges. Theschedules will,however,
havetobetransposed intotheloose-leaf format:
Cameroon Chad TheGambia Guyana Kenya Kuwait
2. Themembers listed below willhavetointroduce theHS96changes directly intotheirUR
consolidated schedules (*where applicable) andsubmit them intheloose-leaf format:
Antigua andBarbuda*
Australia
Bahrain*
Barbados*
Belize*
Brunei Darussalam
Canada
Congo
Cyprus
Czech Rep.Dominica*
Egypt
Fiji*
Ghana*
Hong Kong
India
Japan
Korea
Liechtenstein
MacauMalta
Mauritius*
Namibia
NewZealand
Nigeria
Peru
Poland
Romania
St.Lucia*
St.Vincent and
theGrenadines*Slovak Rep.
Slovenia
South Africa
Swaziland
Switzerland
Tanzania*
Uganda*
United States
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3. Themembers listed below willfirstneedtoconsolidate theirpre-andpost-Uruguay Round
schedule, thenintroduce theHS96changes andsubmit theschedules intheloose-leaf format.
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
European
CommunitiesHonduras
Hungary
Iceland
Indonesia
Malaysia
MexicoNorway
Paraguay
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
TunisiaTurkey
Venezuela
Zimbabwe
4. Thefollowing members (under waiver) willfirsthavetofinalize thetransposition oftheir
schedules intotheHarmonized System andthenproceed asdescribed under 3above.
Argentina
BangladeshIsrael
SenegalSriLanka Zaire
5. Themembers listed below (under waiver) willfirstneedtosubmit thedocumentation related
tothetransposition oftheirschedules intotheHarmonized System andthenproceed asdescribed under
3above.
Bolivia
ElSalvador
GuatemalaJamaica
Malawi
MoroccoNicaragua
PakistanTrinidad &Tobago
Zambia
6. Thefollowing members needtotranspose theirformer concessions intoaHSschedule before
proceeding asdescribed under 3above.
Benin
Burkina Faso
Côted'IvoireDominican Rep.
Gabon
MadagascarMali
Mauritania
MyanmarNiger
Suriname
7. Theschedulesofthefollowingmembershaveeithernotbeensubmittedorhavenotbeenverified.
Angola
Botswana
Burundi
CentralAfricanRep.
Djibouti
GrenadaGuinea (Rep.of)
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Lesotho
Maldives
MozambiquePapua NewGuinea
Qatar
Rwanda
St.Kitts&Nevis
Sierra Leone
Solomon IslandsTogo
United Arab
Emirates
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8. Regarding thepreparation oftheconsolidated schedules inloose-leaf format, thefollowing
proposals areputforward fortheconsideration oftheCommittee.
Coverage oftheschedules
There should beonesequential listofconcessions including allproducts.
Asindicated indocument TAR/W/93, Section IBofPartI(Tariff quotas), PartII(Preferential
Tariff), PartIII(Non-tariff concessions) andPartIV(Commitments onagricultural subsidies) should
bereproduced asintheURschedules annexed totheMarrakesh Protocol.
Content ofPartIoftheloose-leaf schedules
Ifitisdesired toindicate thestaging ofreductions intheloose-leaf schedules, column 3should
besubdivided into(a)baserateand(b)finalrateandanadditional column 9inserted toshow the
implementation period, e.g.1995/2000. When bothadvalorem andspecific ratesneedtobeindicated,
column 3should besubdivided accordingly.
Forproducts subject tothespecial safeguard provisions (Article 5oftheAgreement on
Agriculture) thisshould beindicated withanasterisk (*)incolumn 1(HSItemNo.)rather thanin
column 3(Rate ofduty).
Thelevelofceiling bindings covering arange ofproducts (orallproducts) should beindicated
inageneral noteatthebeginning oftheschedules andreproduced oneachpageoftheschedule.
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9. Following agreement intheCommittee onthetechnical issues related tothepreparation of
consolidated loose-leaf schedules, theSecretariat willmake available apaper setting outprecise revised
guidelines regarding thepreparation ofthese schedules, including their computer version.