JOINT STATEMENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE SIGNING OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE REPUBLIC OF CHILE FOR A STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP

Attachment 2

Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)

March 2007

The two ministers, recognizing the importance of the decision of the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade set out in G/TBT/1/Rev.8, 23 May 2002, "IX. Decision of the Committee on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations with relation to Articles 2, 5 and Annex 3 of the Agreement", confirm that each government will make its best efforts to ensure that, when international standards, guides and recommendations are elaborated, its standardizing body will observe principles in the aforementioned document of the WTO TBT committee.

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