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Afghanistan’s Working Party was established at the General Council meeting on 13 December 2004. Afghanistan’s Memorandum on the Foreign Trade Regime was circulated in March 2009. The Factual Summary of Points Raised, prepared by the Secretariat, was circulated in May 2012. The Working Party met for the second time in June 2012 to continue the examination of Afghanistan’s foreign trade regime.

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1.	Application Received	21 November 2004
2.	Working Party Established Chairperson: H.E. Mr. B. J. van Eenennaam (Netherlands, May 2009 — ) H.E. Mr. I.M. De Jong (Netherlands, Dec 2005-May 2009)	13 December 2004
3.	Memorandum	31 March 2009
4.	Questions and Replies	26 July 2010
5.	Meetings of the Working Party	31 January 2011 18 June 2012
6.	Other Documentation
	(a) Additional Questions & Replies	28 October 2011
	(b) Information on agriculture (WT/ACC/4)
	(c) Information on services (WT/ACC/5)
	(d) SPS/TBT checklists (WT/ACC/8)	6 February 2012 (SPS) 26 April 2012 (TBT) 7 June 2012 (SPS)
	(e) TRIPS checklist (WT/ACC/9)	28 October 2011
	(f) Legislative Action Plan	6 June 2012
7.	Market Access Negotiations
	Goods Offer (a) initial (b) latest
	Services Offer (a) initial (b) latest	13 June 2012
8.	Factual Summary	3 May 2012
9.	Draft Working Party Report

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