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Agreement name:	Chile - Mexico
Coverage:	Goods & Services	Type:	Free Trade Agreement & Economic Integration Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV, Enabling Clause & GATS Art. V
Date of signature:	17-Apr-1998	Date of notification:	27-Feb-2001
Date of entry into force:	01-Aug-1999	End of implementation period:	2006
Remarks:	LAIA Refrence: AAP.CE 41. Agreement notified by the Parties under GATT Article XXIV and GATS V. Later, the goods aspects of this Agreement were also notified under the Enabling Clause by LAIA Parties as a change to the LAIA's 1980 Treaty of Montevideo (WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1/Add.40).
Current signatories:
Original signatories:
RTA Composition:
Region:
All Parties WTO members?		Cross-Regional:

Related agreements

Latin American Integration Association (LAIA)

Official Web Address

Chile, Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales
México, Secretaría de Economía

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	S

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	S

Consideration status (G):	Factual Abstract issued	Consideration status (S):	Factual Abstract issued

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG125

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification (G)	WT/REG125/N/1	E F S
Notification (S)	S/C/N/142	E F S
Notification of LAIA Treaty	WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1	E F S
Agreement	WT/REG125/1	E F S
Factual Abstract (G)		E
Factual Abstract (S)		E
Standard Format for information on RTAs (G)	WT/REG125/3	E F S
Standard Format for information on RTAs (S)	WT/REG125/4	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG125/5	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG125/6	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG125/M/1	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG125/M/2	E F S
Notification of changes (under the LAIA Framework)	WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1/Add.40	E F S

Document type	Language
Factual Abstract (G)	E
Factual Abstract (S)	E

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 01/12/2017

Topics
	Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQ)
	Rules of Origin (RoO)
		Change of Tariff Classification Criteria (CTC)
		Regional Value Content Criteria (RVC)
		Other Criteria(s)
		De minimis rules
		Cumulation among Parties
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
		Transparency obligations (SPS)
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TBT Agreement
		Transparency obligations (TBT)
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Safeguard Agreement
		Exclusion of an RTA party in global safeguard action
		RTA-specific safeguard measures permitted in the transition period or shortly thereafter
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
	Subsidies (Goods)
		Prohibition of agricultural export subsidies
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	Denial of benefits
	Services
		Negative list (Services)
		Standstill provision (Services)
		Ratchet provision (Services)
		MFN provision (Services)
	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Investment Liberalization Provisions
		MFN provision (Investment)
		National Treatment with regard to the entry of investment (establishment)
		Investment liberalization
	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Protection
		Investor to State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) included
	Provisions on capital transfers


	Domestic Regulation
	Mutual Recognition
	Balance-of-payments measures (Services)
	Movement of Natural Persons
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Services)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to some third parties only
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
		Choice of forum
		Exclusive use of forum chosen
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
		Copyrights and neighbouring rights
		Patent
		Trademarks
		Geographical Indications (GIs)
		Enforcement
	Competition
		Adopts or maintains competition law
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (Competition)
	Provisions on designated monopolies or State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
	Environment
		No relaxation of environmental laws