Schedules and TFA commitments

Goods schedules

Members' schedules of concessions result from negotiations among members and contain individual obligations that each member agrees to undertake. These include tariff and non-tariff concessions (e.g. bound duties) as well as commitments relating to agricultural export subsidies and domestic support. Goods schedules were annexed to the Marrakesh Protocol for original WTO members or to acceding members' accession protocols. Goods schedules form an integral element of Part I of the GATT, which in turn is an integral part of the WTO Agreement.

Goods schedules have been modified and rectified hundreds of times in accordance with various procedures, including Article XXVIII of the GATT, the Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994, the Procedures for Negotiations under Article XXVIII (Article XXVIII Guidelines and Corrigendum) and the Procedures for Modification and Rectification of Schedules of Tariff Concessions (1980 Procedures).

Certain changes to goods schedules have been co-ordinated among relevant groups of members. These include changes contemplated in Annex 5 to the Agreement on Agriculture as well as the results of so-called “sectoral negotiations” such as the Pharmaceutical Understanding (documents L/7430, and G/MA/W/10 (1st review), G/MA/W/18 (2nd review), G/MA/W/85 (3rd review) and G/MA/W/102 (4th review)), the Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products (ITA), the Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas, the Ministerial Declaration on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products (ITA Expansion), the Ministerial Decision on Export Competition, and various General Council decisions on the Introduction of Harmonized System Changes into WTO Schedules of Tariff Concessions.

Further information on members' goods schedules is available at:

• goods schedules gateway: with links to individual members' goods schedules
• protocols of accession for members that acceded to the WTO after 1995
• the WTO's Tariff Analysis Online Facility
• the WTO Tariff Download Facility
• dedicated pages on the ITA and the ITA expansion

Services schedules

Members' schedules of specific commitments in services include binding commitments on market access and national treatment in specific service sectors. These schedules are an integral part of the GATS. Likewise, the GATS includes, in an Annex, agreed lists of exemptions from the most-favoured-nation obligation (Article II MFN Exemptions) for various members.

A number of members' services schedules have been modified and rectified in accordance with the procedures set forth in Article XXI of the GATS, and decisions by the Council for Trade in Services on Procedures for the Implementation of Article XXI of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (Modification of Schedules) and Procedures for Certification of Rectifications or Improvements to Schedules of Specific Commitments. The Council for Trade in Services has also adopted Procedures for the Certification of Terminations, Reductions and Rectifications of Article II (MFN) Exemptions.

Changes to services schedules as a result of the Uruguay Round's extended negotiations have been incorporated into the GATS by way of four protocols: the Second Services Protocol (financial services), the Third Services Protocol (movement of natural persons), the Fourth Services Protocol (basic telecommunications), and the Fifth Services Protocol (financial services). Several members' services schedules reflect commitments set forth in the Reference Paper on Basic Telecommunications. More recently, a group of members have co-ordinated changes to their services schedules, in accordance with the Declaration on the Conclusion of Negotiations on Services Domestic Regulation, issued on 2 December 2021.

Further information on members' services schedules is available at:

• dedicated page on members' services schedules.
• services database. Find consolidated schedules of commitments and MFN exemptions by member, sector, and mode of supply. Data covers the period January 1995 to December 1999. Does not include data on current negotiations or on members which have joined the WTO since January 2000.
• protocols of accession for members joining the WTO after 1995.
• help on how to read a services schedule.

TFA commitments

Developing and least-developed members accepting the Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) and choosing to use the Agreement's implementation flexibilities need to designate the provisions contained in Articles 1-12 of the TFA according to three implementation categories. The resulting Category A, B and C commitments form an integral part of the TFA.

• information on the TFA and its implementation 
• Category A, B and C notifications
• TFA Database

GPA schedules

The schedules to the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) specify the coverage of the Agreement for each GPA party as well as the sources where each party makes available procurement-related information under the GPA.

Parties' GPA schedules have been modified and rectified in accordance with the procedures set forth in Article XXIV:6 of the original GPA and Article VI:3 and Article XIX of the amended GPA. In addition, in 2016 the GPA Committee adopted a decision on arbitration procedures pursuant to Article XIX:8 of the amended GPA.

Further information on parties' GPA schedules:

• detailed information on GPA schedules and e-GPA portal
• schedules annexed to the original, 1994 GPA
• schedules annexed to the amended GPA