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NEWS: 2000 PRESS RELEASES
Press/178
8 May 2000
WTO appoints Chairpersons for TRIPS Council and for Subsidiary Bodies of Goods Council
The WTO General Council today (8 May) agreed on the following appointments:
Body |
Chairperson |
| Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights | Ambassador Chak Mun See (Singapore) |
| Committee
on Agriculture Chair: Vice Chair: |
Ambassador Jorge Voto-Bernales (Peru) Mr. Yoichi Suzuki (Japan) |
| Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices | Mr. Yair Shiran (Israel) |
| Committee on Customs Valuation | Mr. Remo Moretta (Australia) |
| Committee on Import Licensing | Mr. Albert Wright (Denmark) |
| Committee on Market Access | Mr. Christophe Kiener (Switzerland) |
| Committee on Rules of Origin | Mr. S醤dor Simon (Hungary) |
| Committee on Safeguards | Mr. Joshua Phoho Setipa (Lesotho) |
| Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures | Mr.
Shishir Priyadarshi (India) (subsequently replaced by Mr. Sayed Irfan Makhdoom Nayyar (Pakistan)) |
| Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures | Mrs. Usha Dwarka-Canabady (Mauritius) |
| Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade | Mr. John Adank (New Zealand) |
| Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures | Mr. Oscar Hern醤dez (Venezuela) |
| Working Party on State Trading Enterprises | Mr. Breffini Carpenter (Ireland) |