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FTAA.ngma/com/16
November 23, 2001

Original Spanish
Translation: non FTAA Secretariat


FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON MARKET ACCESS
Sixteenth Meeting

Panama, November 19 - 23, 2001

PRESS COMMUNIQUÉ

The Sixteenth Meeting of the Negotiating Group on Market Access was held in Panama City, Panama from 19-23 November 2001. Delegations from the following countries were in attendance: Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The NGMA agreed on the Agenda, which is attached. All the items on it were covered.

The next meeting of the Group will be held from 28 January to 1 February 2002.

FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON MARKET ACCESS
Sixteenth Meeting

Panama,  November 19 - 23, 2001

AGENDA

  1. Approval of the Agenda
     

  2. Organization of the work of the Group
     

  3. Report of the Chair of the Negotiating Group on Agriculture
     

  4. General items:
     

    • Follow up of the List of Tasks
    • Follow up of the Hemispheric Data Base
    • Notification on Special Regimes
    • Notifications and counter-notifications of non tariff measures
    • Proposals submitted
    • Relations with NGAG and other FTAA entities

    • Contributions from the Committee of Government Representatives on the Participation of the Civil Society
       

  5. Timetable and modalities for the establishment of rules of origin in the FTAA
     

  6. Tariffs

    • Special Regimes

     

  7. Non-tariff measures
     

  8. Safeguards

  9. Agenda for the next meeting

  10. Other business

 
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