MEETING OF 27-28 NOVEMBER 2025
1.1. This document has been prepared under the responsibility of the
Chairperson of the Council for Trade in Goods (hereinafter "CTG", or
"the Council") with a view to implementing the Council's agreement[1] by providing a follow‑up
note to this formal meeting, and in preparation for the next formal meeting of
the Council, which has been tentatively scheduled for 5 May 2026.
1.2. Please take note of the following information:
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DETAIL
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1._ Remarks by the
Chairperson:
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The
Chairperson's remarks under each item are available on eAgenda.
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2._ Decisions taken at
the meeting:
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Under Agenda Item 2, the Council agreed to forward the Collective
Waiver Decisions to the General Council for appropriate action.
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Under Agenda Item 4, on future work, the Council agreed to hold
an informal meeting in April 2026, after MC14, and to request the
Secretariat to update the submission rates statistics in Table 1 of the
Secretariat report in document _G/C/W/859.
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Under Agenda Item 11.2, "Adoption of the Annual Report of
the Council for Trade in Goods to the General Council", the Council
agreed to follow written procedures for the approval of an updated version of
the annual report that was circulated in document _G/C/W/885. The Secretariat circulated a revised
draft report in document _G/C/W/885/Rev.1, which was also sent to delegates by
email, with a deadline for objections of close of business on Wednesday, 3 December 2025.
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3._ Upcoming meetings:
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The
provisional dates of upcoming meetings of the Council are currently described
in the tentative calendar of meetings (_JOB/CTG/73/Rev.2). A regularly updated list of such information is available via the WTO Calendar of meetings and the Council for Trade in Goods gateway.
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4._ Key dates for the
upcoming meeting:
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Please take
note of the following tentative dates concerning the CTG's next formal
meeting:
Date of the
meeting: Tuesday, 5 May 2026,
continuing as necessary
Circulation
of the meeting's initial convening notice: Thursday, 2 April 2026
Activation
of the meeting's eAgenda: Thursday, 2 April 2026
Closure of
the meeting's agenda: Monday, 20 April 2026
Circulation of the meeting's revised convening notice: Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Circulation
of the meeting's annotated agenda: Thursday, 23 April 2026
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5._ Guidance on how to
add items to the agenda of the next meeting
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_Members can add
items to the agenda in two ways:
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Directly through
the Collaborative
Agenda section of the eAgenda[2]; or
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by sending an email
to the CTG team (Roy.Santana@wto.org, Arti.Daswani@wto.org and Craig.James@wto.org). For transparency, the Secretariat will also include any such
request in the eAgenda.
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6._ Agreed items reverted
to by the Council, and standing items
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At the
upcoming meeting, the Council will consider the following standing agenda
items:
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Notification of Regional Trade Agreements;
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A report by the Secretariat on the Status of Notifications Under the
Provisions of the Agreements in Annex 1(a) of the WTO Agreement, as
of 31 December 2025, which will be circulated as the next revision
in the _G/L/223/- document series.
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[1] At its meeting of 30 November–1 December 2023, the
Council for Trade in Goods agreed on a trial basis on "the creation of a
new 'follow‑up' document, under the authority of the Chairperson, concisely
collating agreed next steps, deadlines, and actions to be taken by delegations
in preparation for the next formal meeting." (_G/L/1522).