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Agreement name:	United States - Israel
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	22-Apr-1985	Date of notification:	13-Sep-1985
Date of entry into force:	19-Aug-1985	End of implementation period:	1995
Current signatories:	Israel; United States of America
Original signatories:	Israel; United States of America
RTA Composition:	Bilateral
Region:	Middle East; North America
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Official Web Address

Office of the United States Trade Representative
Israel, Ministry of Economy and Industry

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E

Consideration status:	Report adopted

Related documents

Document series:

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 19/04/2018

Topics
	Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQ)
	Rules of Origin (RoO)
		Regional Value Content Criteria (RVC)
		Outward-processing allowed
		Cumulation among Parties
		Cumulation with non-Parties permitted
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Exclusion of an RTA party in global safeguard action
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
		Special safeguard in Agriculture
		Other Special safeguards
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Subsidies (Goods)
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)


	Services
	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
		Copyrights and neighbouring rights
		Patent
		Trademarks
		Enforcement