STATE TRADING
NEW AND FULL NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE
XVII:4(A) OF THE
GATT 1994 AND PARAGRAPH 1 OF THE UNDERSTANDING ON
THE INTERPRETATION OF ARTICLE XVII
South Africa
The following communication, dated and
received on 23 January 2023, is being circulated at the request of the
delegation of South Africa.
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Pursuant to Article XVII:4(a) of the GATT
1994 and paragraph 1 of the Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XVII,
and in response to the calls for notifications contained in documents _G/STR/N/18,
_G/STR/N/19
and _G/STR/N/20,
the Republic of South Africa wishes to notify the Council for Trade in Goods
that during the years 2018 to 2023, the Government of South Africa did not
maintain state trading enterprises within the meaning of the working definition
contained in paragraph 1 of the above-mentioned Understanding.