Decision (EU) 2019/1709 establishing the position to be taken within the General Council of the World Trade Organization [Preferential tariff treatment for least developed countries]

Summary:

Council Decision of 7 October 2019 establishing the position to be taken on the Union's behalf regarding the extension of a WTO waiver permitting developing country members to provide preferential tariff treatment for least developed countries.

Further information:

Further to a request by Chile, China, India, Thailand and Turkey (the ‘co-sponsors’), the General Council of the WTO is to adopt a decision to extend the existing WTO waiver permitting developing country members to provide preferential tariff treatment for least developed countries (LDCs). The existing waiver expired on 30 June 2019. Therefore, the purpose of the envisaged act is to extend the waiver from 1 July 2019 until 30 June 2029.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2019)410: Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken in the General Council of the World Trade Organization [Preferential tariff treatment for least developed countries] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2019:410:FIN

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