Laos has submitted its first offer on market access for goods, a proposal that some members said was almost good enough for them to accept as far as industrial products are concerned.
But in their 30 November 2006 meeting they sought more information on Laos' trading regime and looked forward to the offer on services, which Laos has promised to deliver before the next meeting.
Nevertheless, the talks are still in their early stages. This two-hour meeting was only the second of the 28-member working party (53 if the EU's member states are also counted) and two years after the first meeting.
Ahead lie further negotiations on the goods offer, and from Laos, its first offer in services followed by more negotiations, a considerable amount of wide-ranging information on Laos' trading regime, action plans to make its laws and regulations conform with WTO agreements, and bilateral agreements with key trading partners — Laos said it had met six of them during the week.
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