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Bhutan

Bhutan's Working Party was established on 6 October 1999. Bhutan submitted a Memorandum on the Foreign Trade Regime in February 2003. Bilateral market access negotiations are ongoing on the basis of revised offers in goods and services. The multilateral examination of the foreign trade regime is ongoing and a draft Working Party Report was circulated in December 2007.

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1.	Application Received	17 September 1999
2.	Working Party Established Chairperson: H.E. Mr. W. Petritsch (Austria, May 2003 —) Mr. Kreid (Austria, Oct 2000 — May 2003)	6 October 1999
3.	Memorandum	27 February 2003
4.	Questions and Replies	13 April 2004
5.	Meetings of the Working Party	8 November 2004 6 October 2005 20 October 2006 30 January 2008
6.	Recently submitted documentation
	(a) Additional Questions & Replies	13 April 2007
	(b) Information on agriculture (WT/ACC/4)	13 April 2007
	(c) Information on services (WT/ACC/5)
	(d) SPS/TBT checklists (WT/ACC/8)	19 October 2007 (SPS) 13 April 2004 (TBT)
	(e) TRIPS checklist (WT/ACC/9)	13 April 2004
	(f) Legislative Action Plan	6 June 2006 (Customs Valuation) 25 July 2006 (TBT) 25 July 2006 (TRIPS) 31 August 2005 19 October 2007 (SPS) 25 July 2006
7.	Market Access Negotiations
	Goods Offer (a) initial (b) latest	31 August 2005 8 November 2007
	Services Offer (a) initial (b) latest	31 August 2005 8 November 2007
8.	Factual Summary	8 August 2005
9.	Draft Working Party Report latest revision	28 September 2006 10 December 2007

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