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Agreement name:	Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) - Israel
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	18-Dec-2007	Date of notification:	29-Mar-2019
Date of entry into force:	23-Dec-2009	End of implementation period:	2020
Remarks:	Dates of entry into force: 23-Dec-2009 for Uruguay and Israel; 24-Mar-2010 for Paraguay and Israel; 03-Apr-2010 for Brazil and Israel; 09-Sep-2011 for Argentina and Israel.
Current signatories:	Argentina; Brazil; Paraguay; Uruguay; Israel
Original signatories:	Argentina; Brazil; Paraguay; Uruguay; Israel
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	South America; Middle East
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Official Web Address

Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR)
Israel, Ministry of Economy and Industry

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E S

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E S

Consideration status:	Factual Presentation issued
Date of Consideration	22-Sep-2020

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG398

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG398/N/1	E F S
Factual Presentation	WT/REG398/1/Rev.1	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG398/2	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG398/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: 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)
		De minimis rules
		Outward-processing allowed
		Cumulation among Parties
	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)
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Safeguard Agreement
		Exclusion of an RTA party in global safeguard action
		RTA-specific safeguard measures permitted in the transition period or shortly thereafter
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
	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
	Subsidies (Goods)
		Prohibition of agricultural export subsidies


	MFN Clause/Preferences extended from other RTAs (Goods)
	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Promotion
	Rendez-Vous clause (Investment)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to some third parties only
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
		Choice of forum
		Exclusive use of forum chosen
	Competition
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (Competition)
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
		Cooperation