NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 5 OF THE
AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN
NON-PREFERENTIAL
RULES OF ORIGIN
1. According
to Article 5.1 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin, each Member shall provide
to the Secretariat, within 90 days after the date of entry into force of
the WTO Agreement for it, its rules of origin, judicial decisions, and
administrative rulings of general application relating to rules of origin in
effect on that date. If, by inadvertence, a rule of origin has not been
provided, the Member concerned shall provide it immediately after this fact
becomes known. Article 5.2 of the Agreement provides, moreover, that
during the period referred to in Article 2, Members introducing modifications,
other than de minimis
modifications, to their rules of origin or introducing new rules of origin,
shall publish a notice to that effect at least 60 days before the entry into
force of the modified or new rule in such a manner as to enable interested
parties to become acquainted with the intention to modify a rule of origin or
to introduce a new rule of origin, unless exceptional circumstances arise or
threaten to arise for a Member.