Information Technology Agreement
Encyclopedia
The Information Technology Agreement (ITA) is an agreement enforced by the World Trade Organization
(WTO) and concluded in the Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products in 1996, and entered into force 1 July 1997. Since 1997 a formal Committee under the WTO watches over the following of the Declaration and its Implementations.
The aim of the treaty is to lower all taxes and tariffs on Information Technology
Products by signatories to zero.
World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which commenced in 1948...
(WTO) and concluded in the Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products in 1996, and entered into force 1 July 1997. Since 1997 a formal Committee under the WTO watches over the following of the Declaration and its Implementations.
The aim of the treaty is to lower all taxes and tariffs on Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
Products by signatories to zero.
External links
- Information Technology Agreement
- ITA Schedules of Concessions (the text of the declaration) (the text of the implementation with two "Note[s] by the Secretariat")