Members' transparency toolkit

Find documents

• Transparency requirements — Agriculture Agreement, Art.18
   
• Notification requirements and formats — Download documents G/AG/2, G/AG/2/Add.1, G/AG/2/Add.2, and G/AG/2/Add.3
   
• Schedules of commitments (ie, members’ commitments on market access, domestic support and export subsidies)
  > Members with Scheduled Commitments
  > The schedules
  > The latest situation on members’ schedules, as monitored by the Market Access Committee
  > Supporting tables in agriculture
   
• Status of members’ compliance with notification requirements
  > Report on regular and other notification obligations
  > Secretariat note on members’ compliance with notification obligations (G/AG/GEN/86/Rev.xx)
   

• AG-IMS reports on notified information
  > Domestic support: Table DS:1 and the relevant Supporting Tables
  > Tariff Quotas (TRQ): Administration of TRQ (Table MA:1) and Imports under TRQ (Table MA:2)
  > Special safeguard actions: Tables MA:3, MA:4 and MA:5
  > Export subsidies: (Table ES:1); Significant Exporters (Table ES:2); Food aid (Table ES:1 and Table ES:3)
  > Export restrictions: Table ER:1
    
• Search for CoA documents: the Agriculture Committee and documents page
• Search for agriculture notifications: the AG-IMS notification search facility

Resources

• Agriculture Agreement technical summary and descriptive booklet (pdf)
   
• Handbook on agriculture notification requirements: A practical guide for member governments’ officials on how to notify measures to the WTO.
  > 2nd edition of the Handbook
  > Handbook (1st edition) in pdf format
  > Self-training module
   


• AG-IMS Online Agriculture Notification System:
  
  • Video: How to use AGIMS
  • Practical Guide on online submission of tariff quota imports (Table MA:2) and domestic support (Table DS:1) notifications (pdf)


• What to look for when reviewing notifications (Cairn's group paper)
     
• Tariff Analysis Online (TAO) : search and analyze tariff data such as general information on applied tariffs and members’ binding commitments on maximum tariffs
   
• Technical Assistance Activities
   
• WTO technical assistance and training
• Secretariat assistance for preparing notifications
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