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Agreement name:	EFTA - Tunisia
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	17-Dec-2004	Date of notification:	03-Jun-2005
Date of entry into force:	01-Jun-2005	End of implementation period:	2008
Current signatories:	Iceland; Liechtenstein; Norway; Switzerland; Tunisia
Original signatories:	Iceland; Liechtenstein; Norway; Switzerland; Tunisia
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe; Africa
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Official Web Address

European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E F

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E F

Consideration status:	Factual Presentation issued
Date of Consideration	27-Nov-2008

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG201

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG201/N/1	E F S
Agreement	WT/REG201/1	E F S
Factual Presentation	WT/REG201/3/Rev.1	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG201/4	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG201/5	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG201/M/1	E F S

Document type	Language
Factual Presentation (G)	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
		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
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Safeguard Agreement
		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
	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 Protection
		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
	Provisions on designated monopolies or State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
	Environment

Document title
EFTA
Tunisia