Status of notifications under the decision on
notification
procedures for quantitative restrictions (_g/l/59/rev.1)
report by the secretariat[1]
1. The Decision on Notification
Procedures for Quantitative Restrictions[2]
provides that "Members shall make complete notifications of all
quantitative restrictions in force by 30 September 2012 and at two
yearly intervals thereafter. They should also notify changes to those
quantitative restrictions as soon as possible, but not later than six months
from their entry into force".[3]
This report has been prepared by the Secretariat pursuant to paragraph 7 of the
Decision.[4]
2. As of 4 November
2024, a total of 62 Members[5]
have submitted at least one notification of QRs in force. For each biennial
period, the following notifications[6]
have been received:
2012-2014: 29 notifications from 24 Members.
2014-2016: 39 notifications from 33 Members.
2016-2018: 35 notifications from 33 Members.
2018-2020: 95 notifications from 51 Members.
2020-2022: 109 notifications from 47 Members.
2022-2024: 80 notifications from 38 Members.
2024-2026: 18 notifications from 18 Members.
3. The complete list of
notifications received by the Secretariat is provided in the Annex. This
version of the report provides additional information in terms of the date of
submission and circulation of the documents, as well as the language of the
annex of the information in Section 1 of the notification, which is not
translated.
[1] This document has been prepared under the Secretariat's own
responsibility and is without prejudice to the positions of Members or to their
rights and obligations under the WTO.
[2] Adopted by the Council for Trade
in Goods on 22 June 2012 (_G/L/59/Rev.1).
[3] _G/L/59/Rev.1, paragraph 1.
[4] This provision states: "The Secretariat shall circulate yearly a
report listing: i) the WTO Members having made a notification; ii) the type of
notification made (i.e. whether "complete", "changes" or
"reverse"); iii) the date of the notification and the period covered
by it; iv) the sections of the notification in which information was provided
(i.e. Sections 1 or 2); and v) whether the Secretariat informed the Member that
information was missing."
[5] The European Union is counted as one Member throughout this
document.
[6] Corrigenda are not taken into account in the count of the number of
notifications. In addition, notifications with subsequent revisions are counted
once.