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 Issues covered by the WTO’s committees and agreements

 Information Technology Agreement

The Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products (ITA) was concluded by 29 participants at the Singapore Ministerial Conference in December 1996. The ITA provided for participants to completely eliminate duties on IT products covered by the Agreement by 1 January 2000. Developing country participants have been granted extended periods for some products.

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IT Symposium 18-19 October 2004  back to top

Information Technology Symposium, 18-19 October 2004
Link leads to symposium program with expert papers which can be consulted on-line

      

Introduction back to top

Overview of the information technology agreement and its implementation
  

The mandate back to top

Browse or download the text of the “Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products” from the legal texts gateway.

Find decisions of WTO bodies concerning the information technology agreement in the Analytical Index — Guide to WTO Law and Practice.

  

List of ITA participants back to top

Currently there are 63 Participants
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Work on ITA in the WTO, and official documents back to top

Work on this subject is handled by the Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products.

> Current Chairperson

Non Tariff Measures

Download the work programme (in MS Word format, 2 pages, 32KB)

  
Work in the Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products
  

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  • Annual reports of the Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products (Document code varies)    > search    > help

  
  
Other official ITA documents

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 General documents on ITA bear the document code G/IT/* (where * takes additional values).
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  • General documents on ITA (Document code G/IT/*)    > search
  • Status report on ITA implementation (Document code G/IT/* and keyword “status of implementation”)    > search
  • Classification of information technology products (Document code G/IT/* and and keyword “Classification of information technology products”)    > search
  • Products Classification (Divergences) of information technology products (Document code G/IT/* and and keyword “divergences or classification”)    > search

You can perform more sophisticated searches from the Documents Online search facility (opens in new window) by defining multiple search criteria such as document code, full text search or document date.

   
Consult and download schedules of concessions for tariff reductions by ITA signatory countries

  

Previous events back to top

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