Information Technology Agreement
The Information Technology Agreement (ITA) was concluded by 29 participants at the Singapore Ministerial Conference in December 1996. Since then, the number of participants has grown to 82, representing about 97 per cent of world trade in IT products. The participants are committed to completely eliminating tariffs on IT products covered by the Agreement. At the Nairobi Ministerial Conference in December 2015, over 50 members concluded the expansion of the Agreement, which now covers an additional 201 products valued at over $1.3 trillion per year.
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Introduction
Information Technology Agreement — introduction
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The mandate
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.
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ITA schedules
- List of participants, with links to schedules
- Status of implementation
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Work on ITA in the WTO, and official documents
Work on this subject is handled by the Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products. The current chair is .
Non Tariff Measures
Download the work programme (MS Word format, 2 pages, 32KB, opens in a new window)
Work in the Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products
Other official ITA documents
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Documents Online
General
documents on ITA bear the document code
G/IT/* (where * takes additional values).
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> help with downloading these documents
- 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.
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Events
- Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of the
Information Technology Agreement (27 and 28 June 2017)
> Registration
- WTO ITA Workshop on Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) Affecting Trade in IT Products (7 May 2015)
> Registration
- Symposium of the 15th Anniversary of the Information Technology Agreement, 14-15 May 2012
> Registration
- Information Technology Symposium, 28-29 March 2007
> Programme
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Workshop for the ITA Committee Participants
to Meet the Representatives from Global ICT Industry Associations
18 January 2007, WTO, Geneva
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Information
Technology Symposium, 18-19 October 2004
Link leads to symposium program with expert papers which can be consulted on-line
- Workshop
on EMC/EMI for Information Technology Products, 23-24 April 2003
> Information about the Workshop (Word format, 27 KB, opens in a new window)
> Programme & papers
> Background documents > help
- WTO Information Technology Symposium
16 July 1999
Link leads to symposium program with expert papers which can be consulted on-line