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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11366

25 July 2015
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade
WTO agreement imminent on extending list of liberalised ICT goods

Brussels, 24/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - A WTO agreement was expected at the end of Friday 24 July on the review of the 1997 WTO information technology agreement (ITA) so as to extend the list of ITA-covered goods to 200 new products.

The products covered by this extension include new generation semi-conductors, GPS navigation material and medical equipment (including magnetic resonance imaging equipment and ultrasound diagnosis apparatus). Annual trade of the 200 new products that would be...