We conducted consultations in late December. We used two criteria to determine the eligibility for the general preferential tariff. Countries had to either have an economy below high income or upper-middle income—according to the World Bank standards—or have less than a 1% share of overall exports.
Those criteria are generally applied by other countries. For instance, the European Union overhauled its generalized system of tariff preferences and adopted essentially the same criteria. In the case of income, the same criterion imposed by the World Bank is used. The same lists are used.