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| date_effective = 1 July 1997
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[[Image:Information Technology Agreement.png|thumb|right|350px|Information Technology Agreement parties<ref>[http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_E/inftec_e/itscheds_e.htm INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: SCHEDULES OF CONCESSIONS]</ref>]]

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.<ref name="intro">{{cite web |url=http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_E/inftec_e/itaintro_e.htm |title=Information Technology Agreement — introduction |publisher=World Trade Organization |accessdate=4 August 2010}}</ref>

The aim of the treaty is to lower all [[taxes]] and [[tariffs]] on [[information technology]] products by signatories to zero.<ref name="intro"/>
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Citation | url = http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_E/inftec_e/inftec_e.htm | title = Information Technology Agreement | publisher = WTO}}.
* {{Citation | url = http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_E/inftec_e/itscheds_e.htm | title = ITA Schedules of Concessions | publisher = WTO}}.
* {{cite web |url= http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/itadec_e.pdf |title= Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products | date = 13 December 1996 | publisher = World Trade Organization | location = Singapore | format=PDF | accessdate = 4 August 2010 | type = text of the declaration}}
* {{cite web |url= http://docsonline.wto.org/imrd/gen_searchResult.asp?RN=0&searchtype=browse&q1=%28+%40meta%5FSymbol+G%FCL%FC160+or+G%FCL%FC160%FC%2A+%29+&language=1 | title =Council for Trade in Goods – Implementation of the Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products | date=2 April 1997; 5 May 1997; 17 September 1997 |work= World Trade G/L/160 doc#97-1356; G/L/160/Add.1 doc#97-1935; G/L/160/Add.2 doc#97-3676 |publisher = World Trade Organization |format = WPF.ZIP or WPF.EXE |accessdate=4 August 2010 | type = text of the implementation with two "Note[s] by the Secretariat"}}

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