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Agreement name:	EU - Switzerland - Liechtenstein
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	22-Jul-1972	Date of notification:	27-Oct-1972
Date of entry into force:	01-Jan-1973	End of implementation period:	1984
Remarks:	Official Journal of the European Union: L 300 of 31-Dec-1972. The EU Member States and Liechtenstein are also Parties to the EEA that has only been notified under GATS Art. V. Switzerland is not a Party to the EEA. 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; Liechtenstein; Switzerland
Original signatories:	Belgium; Denmark; France; Germany; Ireland; Italy; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Switzerland; United Kingdom
RTA Composition:	Plurilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	No

Related agreements

EU Treaty
European Economic Area (EEA)

Official Web Address

Confédération Suisse, Secrétariat d'État à l'Économie
European Commission
Liechtenstein, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Justice and Culture

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/REG94

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	L/3758	E F
Agreement	L/3758/Add.1	E
Report	BISD 20S/196 (L/3898)	E
Biennial report	WT/REG94/R/B/1	E F S
Biennial report / Addendum	WT/REG94/R/B/1/Add.1	E F S
Biennial report	WT/REG94/R/B/2	E F S
Biennial report	WT/REG94/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: 01/03/2021

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
		Outward-processing allowed
		Cumulation among Parties
		Cumulation with non-Parties permitted
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
		Transparency obligations (SPS)
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
		Special safeguard in Agriculture
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping


	Subsidies (Goods)
		Prohibition of agricultural export subsidies
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Competition
	Provisions on designated monopolies or State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)

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