Committee on Regional Trade Agreements - Council for Trade in Services - Notification of regional trade agreements - Notification of entry into force of CPTPP for Malaysia

NOTIFICATION of regional trade agreement

 

Notification of entry into force of CPTPP for Malaysia

 

1.

Member(s) notifying: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Viet Nam

2.

Date of notification: 25 January 2023

3.

Notification pursuant to

[X] Article XXIV:7(a) of GATT 1994

[X] Article V:7(a) of GATS

[ ] Paragraph 4(a) of the Enabling Clause

4.

Parties to the Agreement: 

Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Viet Nam.

5.

Date of signature: 8 March 2018

6.

Date(s) of entry into Force: 

30 December 2018 for Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and Singapore

14 January 2019 for Viet Nam

19 September 2021 for Peru

 

29 November 2022 for Malaysia

For the remaining signatories, entry into force will be in accordance with Article 3 (Entry into Force), paragraph 2 of CPTPP.

7.

Brief description of the Agreement: CPTPP establishes a free trade area for trade in goods and services within the meaning of GATT 1994 Article XXIV and GATS Article V. The Agreement contains provisions on national treatment and market access for goods, rules of origin and origin procedures, textiles and apparel goods, customs administration and trade facilitation, trade remedies, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, investment, cross-border trade in services, financial services, temporary entry for business persons, telecommunications, electronic commerce, government procurement, competition policy, state-owned enterprises and designated monopolies, intellectual property, labour, environment, cooperation and capacity building, competitiveness and business facilitation, development, small and medium sized enterprises, regulatory coherence, transparency and anti-corruption, administrative and institutional provisions, and dispute settlement. The Agreement establishes a Commission to oversee its implementation.

8.

Text and related schedules, annexes and protocols are:

[ ] submitted to the WTO Secretariat (electronic format)

[X] available from the following official Internet link(s):      

Depositary:

https://www.mfat.govt.nz/tr/about-us/who-we-are/treaties/comprehensive-and-progressive-agreement-for-tpp/ 

 

Australia:

www.dfat.gov.au/cptpp

 

Brunei Darussalam:

https://www.mofe.gov.bn/Divisions/Comprehensive-and-Progressive-Agreement-for-Trans-Pacific-Partnership-(CPTPP)-Texts.aspx

 

Canada:

https://canada.ca/cptpp

 

Chile:

https://www.subrei.gob.cl/acuerdos-comerciales/acuerdo-transpacifico-tpp11

 

Japan:

https://www.cas.go.jp/jp/tpp/tppinfo/kyotei/tpp_text_en/index.html#TPP

 

Malaysia:

http://fta.miti.gov.my/index.php/pages/view/71?mid=40

 

Mexico:

www.gob.mx/tpp

 

New Zealand:

https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/trade/free-trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements-in-force/cptpp/comprehensive-and-progressive-agreement-for-trans-pacific-partnership-text-and-resources/

 

Peru:

http://www.acuerdoscomerciales.gob.pe/En_Vigencia/CPTPP/Textos_Acuerdo.html

 

Singapore:

https://www.enterprisesg.gov.sg/non-financial-assistance/for-singapore-companies/free-trade-agreements/ftas/singapore-ftas/cptpp

 

Viet Nam:

https://fta.moit.gov.vn/index.php?r=site%2Fcontent&id=39