Text of the 2006 General Council
Decision on the Transparency Mechanism for
Regional Trade Agreements
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- How
many regional trade agreements
have been notified to the GATT or the WTO?
- Regional
Trade Agreements notified to the GATT/WTO and in Force
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Transparency Mechanism communications (early announcements of RTAs, notifications of changes, etc.)
Work on
regional trade agreements in the WTO, and official documents back to top
Work
on this subject is handled by the Committee on Regional Trade
Agreements, which reports to the Goods Council.
The
WTOs Committee on Regional Trade Agreements
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on regional trade agreements bear the document code WT/REG/*.
Under the Doha agenda’s trade negotiations mandate, they use
TN/RL/* (where * takes additional values).
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- Annual
reports of the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements
to the General Council (Document
code WT/REG/* and keyword “report”)
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- Minutes of the meetings of the Committee on Regional Trade
Agreements (Document
code WT/REG/M/*)
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- Working
documents of the Committee on Regional Trade
Agreements (Document
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- Biennial
Reports on the operation of the Agreement (Document
code WT/REG* and R and keyword “communication*”)
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Analysis and publications
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WTO Discussion Paper N° 12: The
Changing Landscape of Regional Trade Agreements — Update 2006
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WTO Discussion Paper N° 8: The
Changing Landscape of Regional Trade Agreements
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WTO Staff Working Paper: Services
liberalization in the new generation of Preferential Trade Agreements
(PTAs):
How much further than the GATS?
Contact Point:
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Regional Trade Agreements Section
rta@wto.org
+41 (0)22 7396430
+41 (0)22 739 5774
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