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Agreement name:	Central American Common Market (CACM)
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Customs Union
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	13-Dec-1960	Date of notification:	24-Feb-1961
Date of entry into force:	04-Jun-1961	End of implementation period:	1965
Remarks:	The General Treaty on Central American Common Market was signed on 13 December 1960 by El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The instruments of ratification were deposited on 5, 8 and 26 May 1961 by Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, respectively, and on 27 April 1962 by Honduras. It came into force on 4 June 1961 for the first three States and on 27 April 1962 for Honduras. Costa Rica acceded on 23 July 1962 and deposited its instrument of ratification on 23 September 1963, which is when the Treaty came into force for that country.
Current signatories:	Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
Original signatories:	El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua
RTA Composition:	Plurilateral
Region:	Central America
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	No

Related agreements

Central American Common Market (CACM) - Accession of Panama

Official Web Address

Secretaría de Integración Económica Centroamericana (SIECA)

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	S

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	S

Consideration status:	Report adopted

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG93

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 06/01/2020

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
		Cumulation among Parties
	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
		Transparency obligations (SPS)
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TBT Agreement
		Transparency obligations (TBT)
		Harmonization/alignement of TBT measures at the bilateral/regional level
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
		Other Special safeguards
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping
		Stricter rules on imposition of intra-RTA Anti-Dumping measures
	Countervailing measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing measures
		Stricter rules on imposition of intra-RTA countervailing measures


	Subsidies (Goods)
		Prohibition of agricultural export subsidies
	MFN Clause/Preferences extended from other RTAs (Goods)
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Provisions on capital transfers
	Accession
		Accession open to some third parties only
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
	Provisions on designated monopolies or State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)