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Afghanistan to become WTO member on July 29, 2016
Afghanistan will become the 164th member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on July 29th of this year, 30 days after the Protocol of Accession was ratified by the Afghan Parliament.
WTO members officially approved Afghanistan’s accession at the Tenth Ministerial Conference in Nairobi on December 17, 2015 and the Protocol of Accession was signed between Afghanistan’s First Deputy Chief Executive Mohammad Khan Rahmani and Director-General Roberto Azevedo.
Afghanistan is the 36th government and the ninth least-developed country (LDC) to join the WTO following accession negotiations since the WTO was established in 1995. Liberia, also an LDC, will meanwhile become the 163rd WTO member on 14 July. LDCs represent a fifth of the WTO membership.
| 1. | Application Received | 21 November 2004 |
| 2. | Working Party Established Chairperson: Ambassador Roderick VAN SCHREVEN (Netherlands) (May 2012 – November 2015) H.E. Mr. B. J. van Eenennaam (Netherlands, May 2009 – May 2012) H.E. Mr. I. M. De Jong (Netherlands, Dec 2005 – May 2009) |
13 December 2004 |
| 3. | Memorandum | 31 March 2009 |
| 4. | Questions and Replies | 26 July 2010 |
| 5. | Meetings of the Working Party | 31 January 2011 18 June 2012 7 December 2012 25 July 2013 11 November 2015 |
| 6. | Other Documentation | |
| (a) Additional Questions & Replies | 28 October 201 19 November 2012 31 October 2012 10 April 2013 7 June 2013 27 June 2013 2 July 2013 14 October 2013 21 October 2013 |
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| (b) Information on agriculture (WT/ACC/4) | 29 October 2012 | |
| (c) Information on services (WT/ACC/5) | ||
| (d) SPS/TBT checklists (WT/ACC/8) | 6 February 2012 (SPS) 26 April 2012 (TBT) 7 June 2012 (SPS) |
|
| (e) TRIPS checklist (WT/ACC/9) | 28 October 2011 19 November 2012 |
|
| (f) Legislative Action Plan | 28 October 2011 6 June 2012 5 December 2012 15 July 2013 31 October 2013 3 March 2014 19 October 2015 |
|
| 7. | Market Access Negotiations | |
| Goods Offer
(a) initial |
14 November 2012 | |
| Services Offer
(a) initial |
13 June 2012 | |
| 8. | Factual Summary | 3 May 2012 |
| 9. | Elements of a Draft Working Party Report | 9 November 2012 14 November 2012 |
| Draft Working Party Report | 24 June 2013 29 October 2013 3 March 2014 19 October 2015 |
|
| 10. | Accession Package:
Report of the Working Party |
13 November 2015 |
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