Dominican Republic in IT Drive
SANTO DOMINGO, DR, July 20, 2006. The Dominican Republic has become the 68th member of WTO's Information Technology Agreement (ITA).
This WTO agreement is helping push the information technology revolution forward. Beginning in 2000, most of the world trade in information technology products (worth $1,134 billion in 2004 for office and telecom equipment, a large part of which are IT products) became completely free of tariffs under ITA. Participation in the ITA means that the country must eliminate tariffs and all other duties and charges on covered IT imports from all WTO members.
From the 29 participants that negotiated the ITA during WTO's First Ministerial Conference in Singapore in December 1996, membership has now risen to 68 that account for more than 97% of world trade in IT products.
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