STATUS OF SUBMISSIONS
TO THE INTEGRATED DATA BASE (IDB)
Note by the Secretariat[1]
Revision
Pursuant to the General Council Decision circulated on 16 July 1997
(WT/L/225), and at the request of the Members of the Committee, the attached
tables indicate the submissions received since the last version of the document
"Status of Submissions to the Integrated Data Base (IDB)"
(G/MA/IDB/2/Rev.50) and the comprehensive status of submissions to the IDB. As
agreed during the CMA meeting of 29 September 2015, the new format of the
status of submissions includes
only the most recent 10 years and with information on the number of non-MFN
duty schemes included in the submission. The comprehensive status of submission
which includes all years
from 1996 is available in electronic format from the IDB document exchange
facility (https://idbfileexchange.wto.org). Further, pursuant to the CMA decision of 28 May 2019 on the
"Modalities and Operation of the Integrated Database (G/MA/367)", the
status of submissions reports were
revised to reflect the updated notification requirements.
[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.
The information provided
by the European Union covers its 28 member States from 1 July 2013
until 31 January 2020. The United Kingdom withdrew from the European
Union as of 1 February 2020. The European Union and the United
Kingdom have communicated that during the transition period, which ends on 31 December 2020,
European Union law, with a few limited exceptions, continues to be applicable
to and in the United Kingdom. During that transition period, the EU MFN applied
and preferential tariffs continue to be applicable in the United Kingdom. See
WT/Let/1462 and WT/GC/206.
The information
provided by Switzerland covers Liechtenstein.