NOTIFICATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 4 OF ANNEX II
OF THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN

PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN

1._       Paragraph 4 of Annex II to the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that Members shall provide to the Secretariat as soon as possible their existing or new preferential rules of origin, including a listing of the preferential arrangements to which they apply, judicial decisions, and administrative rulings of general application relating to their preferential rules of origin. Lists of information received and available within the Secretariat shall be circulated to Members by the Secretariat under the _G/RO/N/ series.

2._       The Committee on Rules of Origin further agreed that, with respect to preferential rules of origin, notifications made to the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) or to the Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) could also suffice to discharge their notification obligations under the Agreement on Rules of Origin (_G/RO/M/59). As a result, the Committee agreed that notifications which had initially been received by the CRTA or the CTD should also be circulated by the Secretariat to the CRO. The information regarding such notifications, including related to preferential rules of origin, can, in addition, be retrieved through the WTO database of regional trade agreements (http://rtais.wto.org) or in the WTO database of preferential trade agreements (http://ptadb.wto.org).

3._       Accordingly, the following notification has been received:

PROTOCOL ON RULES FOR DETERMINING THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF GOODS TO THE AGREEMENT ON ESTABLISHMENT OF FREE TRADE AREA BETWEEN THE GUAM PARTICIPATING STATES

A.    PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN

Article 16 of the Agreement on Establishment of Free Trade Area among the GUAM (Organization for Democracy and Economic Development) Participating States[1] states that the Protocol on Rules of Definition of Country of Origin of Commodities shall constitute an inalienable part of this Agreement.[2]

The Protocol on Rules for Determining the Country of Origin of Goods to the Agreement on Establishment of Free Trade Area between the GUAM Participating States was signed on 20 September 2022. It entered into force for Ukraine on 28 March 2024.

The text of the Law of Ukraine No. 3598-IX "On Ratification of the Protocol on Rules for Determining the Country of Origin of Goods to the Agreement on Establishment of Free Trade Area between the GUAM Participating States" of 23 February 2024 is available at the following link: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/3598-IX#Text.

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