1.

Member(s) notifying: Hong Kong, China and the EFTA States

2.

Date of notification: 15 October 2024

3.

Notification pursuant to:

[X]    Paragraph 14 of the Transparency Mechanism for Regional Trade Agreements (_WT/L/671)

4.

Changes affect:

[  ]    goods

[X]    services

[  ]   both

5.

Original RTA being modified:

Free Trade Agreement between the EFTA States and Hong Kong, China

6.

WTO document reference of original notification of RTA:

_WT/REG322/N/1 and _S/C/N/654

7.

Parties to the Agreement:

Hong Kong, China and the EFTA States (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland)

8.

Date of adoption:

31 October 2017

9.

Date(s) of entry into Force/provisional-application:

31 October 2017

10.

Brief description of the changes:

Updates of Appendix 1 (first list of reservations of Hong Kong, China) and 5 (list of reservations of Switzerland) to Annex X of the Agreement (Lists of Reservations and Commitments for trade in services) to accurately reflect the description and measures (legal sources) elements of the reservation list entries.

11.

Text and related schedules, annexes and protocols are:

[X]    submitted to the WTO Secretariat (electronic format)

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

EFTA:

https://www.efta.int/sites/default/files/documents/legal-texts/free-trade-relations/hong-kong-china/Joint-Committee-Decisions/EFTA-Hong-Kong-China-Joint-Committee-Decision-No-7-2017.pdf

https://www.efta.int/trade-relations/free-trade-network/hong-kong-china

Hong Kong, China:

https://www.tid.gov.hk/english/ita/fta/hkefta/files/decision7.pdf

https://www.tid.gov.hk/english/ita/fta/hkefta/index.html