Reference:    WLI/100                                                                                  11 April 2025

MARRAKESH AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING

THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

DONE AT MARRAKESH ON 15 APRIL 1994

GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE 1994

CERTIFICATION OF MODIFICATIONS AND RECTIFICATIONS TO
SCHEDULE LXXXII – Hong Kong, China

TRANSMISSION OF CERTIFIED TRUE COPY

WHEREAS the CONTRACTING PARTIES to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1947 adopted, on 26 March 1980, a Decision on Procedures for Modification and Rectification of Schedules of Tariff Concessions (BISD 27S/25);

        WHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of the above-mentioned Decision, a draft containing modifications and rectifications to Schedule LXXXII – Hong Kong, China was communicated to all Members of the World Trade Organization in document G/MA/TAR/RS/708 on 20 December 2024, and no objections to the proposed modifications and rectifications were received within three months from the date of issue of the aforementioned document;

        IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the modifications and rectifications to Schedule LXXXII – Hong Kong, China are established in conformity with the above‑mentioned Decision.

        The annexed Schedule is effective as of 20 March 2025.

        I hereby furnish a certified true copy of the above-mentioned modifications and rectifications to each Member of the World Trade Organization. This certification shall be registered in accordance with the provisions of Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

        Done at Geneva this ninth day of April, two thousand and twenty-five.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

                                                                                       Director-General