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G/C/M/137/Add.1  
 
16 October 2020  
(20-7225) Page: 1/3 
Council for Trade in Goods    
 
 
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE IN GOODS  
10 AND 11  JUNE  2020  
AD HOC CHAIRPERSON: HE MR JOSE LUIS CANCELA  (URUGUAY ) 
Addendum  
In a communication dated Thursday, 23  July 2020, addressed to Heads of Delegations, the 
Chairperson of the Council for Trade in Goods (CTG) , HE Mr Mikael Anzén  (Sweden) , announced that 
the CTG would reconvene its meeting on Monday, 27  July 2020, with the sole intention of addressing  
Agenda Item 3, "Appointment  of Officers to the Subsidiary Bodies of the Council for Trade in Goods" , 
which had been suspended at the meeting of 10  June 2020 (documents  WTO/AIR/CTG/1 6/Rev.1  
and G/C/W/ 781). In that communication , he also announced that HE Mr José Luis Cancela, in his  
capacity as former CTG  Chair responsible for the preparation of the current slate of names,  would  
conduct the meeting on his behalf  as ad hoc  Chairperson . 
 
3. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS TO THE SUBSIDIARY BODIES OF THE COUNCIL FOR 
TRADE IN GOODS  
3.1.  The Chairperson  reminded  delegations that at the CTG 's meeting of 10-11 June 2020 he had 
informed delegations that, as a result of the consultations he had  carried out in the months of March 
to May  2020 with the Group Coordinators and with a number of delegations, he had drafted  a list of 
candidates that had been  circulated to Members on 20 May 2020.  Those consultations had been  held 
in an objective and transparent manner, and fully respecting the princi ple of rotation , as established 
in the Guidelines for the Appointment of Chairs to WTO  bodies , found in document s WT/L/510 and 
JOB/GC/22.  Despite this, and within the deadline given, one  delegation had present ed an objection 
to the list. He had therefore p roposed to suspend  Agenda Item 3 concerning the "Appointment of 
Officers to the Subsidiary Bodies of the Council for Trade in Goods" , so that  he could continue his 
consultations  with the aim of reach ing a consensus on that list.  
3.2.  He then informed delegation s that, since the date of the last CTG  meeting, he had  held both 
bilateral consultations and consultations with the Regional Group Coordinators, delegations that had 
candidates on the list , and the objecting delegation.  In those consultations , he had  presented 
different alternatives for consideration.  As a result of these consultations and the consultations 
among the delegations  that were  directly concerned by the objection, he was then in a position  to 
announce that a consensus had been reached on a revised list, which he had sent through a  written 
communication  to all delegations on 21 July 2020. In that communication, he had  also indicated 
that, u nless any delegation object ed to the revised  slate of names, through its respective Group 
Coordinator, i n a written communication sent to him via the Secretariat, by Thursday, 23  July at 
12 noon, it was his intention to suggest the adoption of the revised list to the Council through its 
Chair.  Since no objection to the list had been  received within that dead line, the CTG Chair , 
Ambassador Anz én, convened the present  meeting through a communication dated 23  July, in which 
he had indicated that, in accordance with Paragraph  7.3 of the Guidelines, the meeting would start 
in an open -ended informal mode for consideration of the list . Thereafter , if there were no objection s, 
the meeting would proceed in formal mode , in order  to adopt the proposed slate prepared  by 
Ambassador Cancela . This was the case and no objection s were presented.  
3.3.  Therefore, he considered  that the  present  list fully respected  the rotation  principle  among 
candidates of Regional Groups and reflected the  openness, transparency, and balance  with which it 
had been  drafted . In view of the selection of candidates whose names had been submitted to him by G/C/M/137/Add.1  
 
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  Group Coordinators, he also considered that the  proposed  slate of names reflected , to the extent  
possible, the  balance as provided for in the Guidelines.  
3.4.  The list of names of Chairpersons for the subsidiary bodies that he had prepared read as 
follows:  
CTG Subsidiary Body  Chairperson  
Committee on Market Access  Mr Anatoly CHAPLIN (Russian Federation)  
Committee on Agriculture  Ms Maria ESCANDOR (Philippines)  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Mr Gregory MACDONALD (Canada)  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Mr Laurence SANDRAL (Australia)  
Committee on TRIMs  Mr Manuel CHACÓN (Colombia)  
Committee on Anti -dumping Practices  Ms Maarit KEITANEN (Finland)  
Committee on Customs Valuation  Mr Carlos GUEVARA (Ecuador)  
Committee on Rules of Origin  Mr Han -Ming HUANG (Chinese Taipei)  
Committee on Import Licensing  Dr Muhammad IRFAN (Pakistan)  
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing 
Measures  Ms Sungyo CHOI (Republic of Korea)  
Committee on Safeguards  Mr Mustafa TUZCU (Turkey)  
Working Party on State Trading Enterprises  Ms Johana MÉNDEZ (Panama)  
Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade 
in Information Technology Products  Ms Uma MUNIANDY (Singapore)  
Committee on Trade Facilitation  HE Ms Katrina NAUT (Dominican Republic)  
 
3.5.  He proposed that the Council agree with the nominations as indicated.  
3.6.  The Council so agreed . 
3.7.  The Chairperson  recalled that, while all the other subsidiary bodies of the Council had provisions 
in their respective Agreement or rules of procedure requiring them to elect Chairpersons, Working 
Parties did not. As a result, he proposed that the Council appoint the nom inated Chairperson, 
Ms Johana  MÉNDEZ (Panama ), for the Working Party on State Trading Enterprises.  
3.8.  The Council so agreed . 
3.9.  The Chairperson  then observed that, on the question of Vice -Chairpersons, his understanding 
was that, in cases where the option existed under the Agreement or rules of procedure, it would be 
for the subsidiary bodies themselves to decide if they needed a Vice -Chair, and that it was for the 
respective Chair to hold the necessary consultations in this regard. In the case of the Worki ng Group 
on State Trading Enterprises, the Group would also proceed  to appoint a Vice -Chair, as had been 
agreed by this Council in November  2019. 
3.10.   The Council so agreed . 
3.11.   The Chairperson  thanked the outgoing Chairs of the various subsidiary bodies of the CTG  for 
their hard work and dedication over the course of 2019 and 2020. He wished  the incoming Chairs 
every success in discharging their mandates , which  ensure d the smooth work of the CTG  subsidiary  
bodies , as well as the proper functioning of the WTO  in gen eral. Finally, he thanked  the Regional G/C/M/137/Add.1  
 
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  Group Coordinators for their commitment and all their efforts to reach a consensus on the list, and 
the interested delegations for the  flexibility shown  over the course of the consultations.  
3.12.   The meeting was closed . 
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