WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/TPR//M/43/Add.1
WT/TPR/M/46/Add.1
25 February 1999
(99-0739)
Trade Policy Review Body
18 to 20 November 1998Original:  French
TRADE POLICY REVIEW
BURKINA FASO AND MALI
Minutes of Meeting
Addendum
Deferred Replies to Questions
The Secretariat received from the Government of Mali, on 16 February 1999, and from the
Government of Burkina Faso, on 17 February 1999, the following communications containing the
deferred replies to questions raised at the Burkina Faso and Mali trade policy review meeting.
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Mali
1. The figures for direct foreign investment are as follows:  CFAF 43 billion in 1996,
CFAF 12.4 billion in 1997 and an estimated CFAF 10 billion for 1998.
2. The 1991 Bamako Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous
Wastes has been ratified.
Burkina Faso
3. Burkina Faso has ratified the Basel Convention of 22 March 1989 on the Control of
Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, as well as the September 1995
amendments (c.f. Decree No. 986 424/PM/MAET/MEE of 5 October 1998).
4. Similarly, the Bamako Convention was ratified by Law No. 19/93/ADP of 24 May 1993 and
Decree No. 93-191/PRES of 16 June 1993.
5. With reference to the import verification programme, remedial measures were taken under
Order No. 98-117/MEF/SG/DGT CP/DELF of 28 July 1998, whereby the levy is limited to 1 per cent
for services rendered for prior declarations for imports actually made.
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