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Agreement name:	EFTA - Lebanon
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	24-Jun-2004	Date of notification:	22-Dec-2006
Date of entry into force:	01-Jan-2007	End of implementation period:	2015
Current signatories:	Iceland; Liechtenstein; Norway; Switzerland; Lebanese Republic
Original signatories:	Iceland; Liechtenstein; Norway; Switzerland; Lebanese Republic
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe; Middle East
All Parties WTO members?	No	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Official Web Address

European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E

Consideration status:	Awaiting data from the Parties

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG224

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG224/N/1	E F S
Notification of changes	WT/REG224/N/1/Add.1	E F S

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 14/05/2019

Topics
	Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQ)
	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 Duties and Charges prohibited
	All Export restrictions, including quantitative restrictions, prohibited
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO SPS Agreement
	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
		Other Special safeguards
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping
	Countervailing measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing measures
	MFN Clause/Preferences extended from other RTAs (Goods)
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)


	Services
		MFN provision (Services)
	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Promotion
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to some third parties only
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TRIPS Agreement
		Copyrights and neighbouring rights
		Patent
		Trademarks
		Industrial Designs
		Geographical Indications (GIs)
		Enforcement
	Competition
		Adopts or maintains competition law
	Provisions on designated monopolies or State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
		Cooperation

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	Lebanese Republic, European Free Trade Association (EFTA)	Changes affect:	Goods
Date of signature of changes:	03-Mar-2011	Date of notification of changes:	24-Apr-2013
Date of entry into force of changes:	01-May-2013
Remarks:	Notification of the entry into force of Decision No. 1 of 2011 of the Joint EFTA-Lebanon Committee concerning the replacement of the Table to Annex IV by the Annex to this Decision. The Decision introduces adjustments in the HS structure of the Table to Annex IV to the Agreement. These adjustments are due to the amendments of the Nomenclature appended to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS), which entered into force on 1 January 2007.

Related documents

Notification of changes	WT/REG224/N/1/Add.1	E F S