Nepal
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Report by Nepal
Nepal is a mountainous and predominantly agrarian land-locked country of 26.6 million people lying in the southern slopes of the Himalayas bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China in the north and India in the south east and west. The hilly and the mountainous regions including the great Himalayan range that has eight of the 14 highest peaks in the world above 8000 meters account for 83% of the total land area of 147181 sq. km. and the terai plain accounts for 17% of the area. Within its very small stretch Nepal possesses immense ethnic cultural climatic and biological diversities.
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The Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) was first established on a trial basis by the GATT CONTRACTING PARTIES in April 1989. The Mechanism became a permanent feature of the World Trade Organization under the Marrakesh Agreement which established the WTO in January 1995.