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:

CHANGES TO THE OFFICIALS AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN FOR THE GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES (GSP)

4.     Pursuant to Article 1; Article 2, paragraph A, subparagraph II, point 15; Article 2, paragraph C; Article 3, second paragraph; Article 4; Article 11; Article 12, subparagraphs IV, IX, X, XIX, XXVIII and XXIX; and Article 32, first paragraph, subparagraph XVIII, of the Internal Regulations of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Mexico wishes to inform WTO Members of changes to the list of officials who are authorized by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to issue certificates of origin under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Mexico also wishes to provide the original forms corresponding to these officials. The updated list of officials is as follows:

1._    Alan Loren Peña Argueta

2._    Arturo Hernández Areliano

3._    Jonathan Hernández Benítez

4._    Lizzett Araceli Campos Hernández

5._    Gabriela García Miguel

6._    Johny Juvencio Morales Basilio

5.     Updated register entries and the signatures of the officials concerned are attached to this document for reference purposes.[1]

6.     Given these changes, officials who were previously authorized must stand down.