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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:

[X]    goods

[  ]    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

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: 1 April 2022

10.

Brief description of the changes: Update of Annex II of the Agreement (Processed Agricultural Products) to reflect changes to the Nomenclature appended to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS), which entered into force on 1 January 2017.

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-5-2017.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/decision5.pdf

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