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Member(s) notifying: Chile and the European Union

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Date of notification: 13 May 2025

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

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Parties to the Agreement: European Union and Chile

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Date of signature: 13 December 2023

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Date(s) of entry into Force: 1 February 2025

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Brief description of the Agreement:

·_      Improved market access in the agri-food sector.

·_      Improved market access in services, including in delivery, telecommunications, maritime transport and financial services.

·_      Improved access for government procurement contracts for goods, services, works and works concessions.

·_      New disciplines and cooperation in raw materials and clean fuel crucial for the transition to the green economy, such as lithium, copper, and hydrogen.

·_      A dedicated chapter on small and medium enterprises to help ensure that smaller businesses fully benefit from the agreement, including by cutting red tape.

·_      Protection for 216 EU and 18 Chilean Geographical Indications (GIs).

·_      Ambitious Trade and Sustainable Development provisions, confirming the Parties’ commitment to International Labour Organization standards and to the Paris Agreement.

·_      A dedicated Trade and Gender chapter, with commitments to eliminate discrimination against women.

·_      A chapter on Sustainable Food Systems, with the objective of making food supply chains more sustainable and resilient.

·_      This Interim Trade Agreement replaces part IV of the Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part.[1]

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Text and related schedules, annexes and protocols are:

[ ] submitted to the WTO Secretariat (electronic format)

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

EU-Chile: Text of the agreement