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Agreement name:	EU - Syria
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	18-Jan-1977	Date of notification:	15-Jul-1977
Date of entry into force:	01-Jul-1977	End of implementation period:	1980
Remarks:	Official Journal of the European Union: L 269 of 27-Sep-1978. The United Kingdom was a Member State of the European Union until 31 January 2020. The European Union and the United Kingdom have agreed a Withdrawal Agreement pursuant to Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, which provides for a time-limited transition period during which European Union law, with limited exceptions as provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement will apply to and in the United Kingdom. Further details are available in the communication from the United Kingdom (WT/GC/206) dated 1 February 2020 and the note verbal from the European Union (WT/LET/1462) dated 27 January 2020 notifying WTO members that the United Kingdom is treated as a member State of the European Union for the purposes of relevant international agreements for the duration of the transition period.
Current signatories:	Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Syrian Arab Republic
Original signatories:	Belgium; Denmark; France; Germany; Ireland; Italy; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Syrian Arab Republic; United Kingdom
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe; Middle East
All Parties WTO members?	No	Cross-Regional:	Yes

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Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E F S

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E F S

Consideration status:	Report adopted

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG104

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	L/4522	E
Report	BISD 25S/123 (L/4661)	E F S
Biennial report	WT/REG104/R/B/1	E F S
Biennial report	WT/REG104/R/B/2	E F S
Biennial report	WT/REG104/R/B/3	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/10	E F S

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
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping


	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Political Settlement / Consultations only
	Environment

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