Preferential Trade Agreement between Indonesia and Pakistan (GOODS)

Note on the meeting of 28 JUNE 2021

Chairman: H.E. Dr. Muhammad Mujtaba Piracha (Pakistan)

1.  The 14^th Dedicated Session on Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) of the Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) was convened in document WTO/AIR/COMTD/RTA/9/Rev.1 of 18 June 2021. Under item D (III) of the agenda, the Committee considered the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Indonesia and Pakistan (Goods) (WT/COMTD/RTA12/N/1, WT/COMTD/RTA12/1, WT/COMTD/RTA12/1/Corr.1, WT/COMTD/RTA12/2). The present document contains the minutes relating to the consideration of this agreement.^[1]

2.  The Chairman said that the PTA between Indonesia and Pakistan was notified under paragraph 4(a) of the Enabling Clause on 12 November 2019 in document WT/COMTD/RTA12/N/1. The factual presentation on this agreement – document WT/COMTD/RTA12/1 dated 28 January 2021 – had been prepared by the Secretariat on its own responsibility, and in full consultation with the parties. Written questions from Brazil, as well as the replies from the parties, were circulated in document WT/COMTD/RTA12/2. At the request of the delegation of Pakistan, a corrigendum to the factual presentation was subsequently circulated – on 4 June 2021 in document WT/COMTD/RTA12/1/Corr.1 – in order to modify paragraph 3.1 on page 7 of the document. Following the correction, paragraph 3.1 read: "Both countries do not apply any para-tariffs on all products that are committed in the PTA". The corrigendum also corrected some typing errors in the original document that were found during the translation process.