China Announces It Will Not Expand December GPA Offer To More Entities
In an unexpected move, China this week announced to signatories of the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) that it does not intend to improve the market access concessions it made in its latest accession offer presented in December 2014, but is willing to negotiate exclusions it has proposed. At a Feb. 11 meeting of the Committee on Government Procurement, China said it is not willing to add any entities to Annexes 1-3, which cover procurement by central, sub-central, and state-owned enterprises...