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In general, a WTO member's list of commitments on market access (bound tariff rates, access to services markets). Goods schedules can include commitments on agricultural subsidies and domestic support. Services commitments include bindings on market access and national treatment.
All concessions negotiated in GATT/WTO negotiations are reported in the legal instruments containing Schedules of concessions. Each WTO Member incorporates its concessions in its own schedule.
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LOOSE-LEAF SCHEDULE - After the Tokyo Round, GATT Contracting Parties decided that consolidated schedules containing all concessions granted by a particular country (or group of countries) since GATT was created should be established. The schedules are issued in a loose leaf format to simplify the replacement of pages where the tariff numbering or a concession is amended. National consolidated schedules of concessions are referred to as "loose leaf schedules". After the Uruguay Round, WTO Members decided to establish the Consolidated Loose-leaf Schedules on Goods (See G/L/138).
COLUMNS OF THE LOOSE-LEAF SCHEDULES - Tariff concessions offered by each WTO Member are reported in the loose leaf schedules in columns 3 to 8. The level or rate of a concession is reported in column 3. The WTO legal instrument containing the present concession is reported in column 4. INRs on the current bound rate are reported in column 5. The WTO legal instrument containing the first concession offered on the tariff item is reported in column 6 and historical INRs are reported in column 7. Other duties and charges (ODCs), if not notified in a headnote, are indicated in column 8. The section relative to agricultural tariff concessions contains an additional column to indicate the use or not of the special safeguard provision of Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture.