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.57)
and provide for a 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.[2]
[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.
Information provided by the
European Union on the period since 1 January 2021 covers its current 27 Member
States. For the period until 31 December 2020, tariff information provided by
the European Union also covers the United Kingdom.
The information
provided by Switzerland covers Liechtenstein.
[2] Pursuant to paragraph 8 of the decision of the Committee on Market
Access (G/MA/367), the following Member States voluntarily entered into the
agreement for the automatic electronic transmission of data : Canada, Côte
d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Uruguay.