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Agreement name:	United Kingdom - Pacific States
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	14-Mar-2019	Date of notification:	31-Dec-2020
Date of entry into force:	01-Jan-2021	End of implementation period:	2023
Current signatories:	Fiji; Papua New Guinea; Samoa; Solomon Islands; United Kingdom
Original signatories:	Fiji; Papua New Guinea; United Kingdom
RTA Composition:	Plurilateral
Region:	Oceania; Europe
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Related agreements

EU - Pacific States
EU - Pacific States - Accession of Samoa
EU - Pacific States - Accession of Solomon Islands
United Kingdom - Pacific States - Accession of Samoa
United Kingdom - Pacific States - Accession of Solomon Islands

Official Web Address

United Kingdom, Department for International Trade
Fiji, Ministry of Commerce, Trade, Tourism & Transport

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E

Consideration status:	Awaiting comments from the Parties on the Factual Presentation

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG413

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG413/N/1	E F S

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 05/03/2021

Topics
	All quantitative import restrictions prohibited
	Rules of Origin (RoO)
		Change of Tariff Classification Criteria (CTC)
		Regional Value Content Criteria (RVC)
		Other Criteria(s)
		De minimis rules
		Outward-processing allowed
		Cumulation among Parties
		Cumulation with non-Parties permitted
	All Export restrictions, including quantitative restrictions, prohibited
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO SPS Agreement
		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
		Special safeguard in Agriculture
		Other Special safeguards
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (Anti-Dumping measures)


	Countervailing measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing measures
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (Countervailing measures)
	Subsidies (Goods)
		Prohibition of agricultural export subsidies
	MFN Clause/Preferences extended from other RTAs (Goods)
	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