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Samoa (1)

The Working Party on the accession of Samoa was established on 15 July 1998. The Memorandum on Samoa's Foreign Trade Regime was circulated in February 2000. Multilateral work is proceeding on the basis of a draft Working Party Report since 2003. The latest revision of the draft Working Party Report was circulated in April 2010. Bilateral market access negotiations on goods and services are underway on the basis of an initial offer on goods and a revised services offer. The Accession of Samoa is currently proceeding in the format of Informal Consultations by the Chairperson.

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1.	Application Received	15 April 1998
2.	Working Party Established Chairperson: H.E. Mr. Shinichi Kitajima (Japan, July 2010 — ) Ms. Kuni Sato (Japan, May 2009 — July 2010) Mr. Yoichi Suzuki (Japan, Jan 1999 — May 2009)	15 July 1998
3.	Memorandum	17 February 2000
4.	Questions and Replies	30 August 2001
5.	Meetings of the Working Party	13 March 2002
6.	Recently submitted documentation
	(a) Additional Questions & Replies	18 November 2010
	(b) Information on agriculture (WT/ACC/4)	29 April 2010
	(c) Information on services (WT/ACC/5)
	(d) SPS/TBT checklists (WT/ACC/8)
	(e) TRIPS checklist (WT/ACC/9)	26 May 2009
	(f) Legislative Action Plan	18 November 2010
7.	Market Access Negotiations
	Goods Offer (a) initial (b) latest	30 August 2001
	Services Offer (a) initial (b) latest	30 August 2001 8 February 2006
8.	Factual Summary
9.	Draft Working Party Report latest revision	12 June 2003 30 April 2010

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