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Agreement name:	China - Macao, China
Coverage:	Goods & Services	Type:	Free Trade Agreement & Economic Integration Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV & GATS Art. V
Date of signature:	17-Oct-2003	Date of notification:	27-Dec-2003
Date of entry into force:	17-Oct-2003	End of implementation period:	2020
Remarks:	End of implementation period (EOI): EOI of the last Supplement to the Agreement. Since the Agreement's entry into force in 2003, annual supplements have modified the original EOI.
Current signatories:	China; Macao, China
Original signatories:	China; Macao, China
RTA Composition:	Bilateral
Region:	East Asia
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	No

Official Web Address

China FTA Network
Macao Special Administrative Region Economic Services

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E

Consideration status (G):	Factual Abstract issued	Consideration status (S):	Factual Abstract issued

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG163

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification (G)	WT/REG163/N/1	E F S
Notification (S)	S/C/N/265	E F S
Agreement	WT/REG163/1	E F S
Factual Abstract (G)		E
Factual Abstract (S)		E
Standard Format for information on RTAs (G)	WT/REG163/3	E F S
Standard Format for information on RTAs (S)	WT/REG163/4	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG163/5	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG163/6	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG163/7/Rev.1	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG163/M/1	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG163/M/2	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG163/M/3	E F S
Notification of changes (G) / Addendum - Supplement I	WT/REG163/1/Add.1	E F S
Notification of changes (G) / Addendum - Supplement II	WT/REG163/1/Add.2	E F S
Notification of changes (G) / Addendum - Supplement III	WT/REG163/1/Add.3	E F S
Notification of changes (G) / Addendum - Supplement IV	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.1	E F S
Notification of changes (G) / Addendum - Supplement V	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.2	E F S
Notification of changes (G) / Addendum - Supplement VI	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.3	E F S
Notification of changes (G) / Addendum - Supplement VII	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.4	E F S
Notification of changes (G) / Addendum - Supplement VIII	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.5	E F S
Notification of changes (G) / Addendum - Supplement IX	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.6	E F S
Notification of changes (G) / Addendum - Supplement X	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.7	E F S
Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.8	E F S
Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.9	E F S
Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.10	E F S
Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.11	E F S
Notification of changes (S) / Addendum - Supplement IV	S/C/N/265/Add.1	E F S
Notification of changes (S) / Addendum - Supplement V	S/C/N265/Add.2	E F S
Notification of changes (S) / Addendum - Supplement VI	S/C/N/265/Add.3	E F S
Notification of changes (S) / Addendum - Supplement VII	S/C/N/265/Add.4	E F S
Notification of changes (S) / Addendum - Supplement VIII	S/C/N/265/Add.5	E F S
Notification of changes (S) / Addendum - Supplement IX	S/C/N/265/Add.6	E F S
Notification of changes (S) / Addendum - Supplement X	S/C/N/265/Add.7	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.8	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.9	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.10	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.11	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.12	E F S

Document type	Language
Factual Abstract (G)	E
Factual Abstract (S)	E

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 31/03/2020

Topics
	All tariffs eliminated at end of implementation by at least one Party
	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
	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)
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Prohibition of intra-RTA Anti-Dumping measures
	Countervailing measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing measures
		Prohibition of intra-RTA countervailing measures
	Denial of benefits
	Services
		Hybrid structure (Services)
		Standstill provision (Services)
		Ratchet provision (Services)
		MFN provision (Services)
	Investment Liberalization Provisions
		MFN provision (Investment)
		National Treatment with regard to the entry of investment (establishment)
		Investment liberalization
	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Protection
		Investment Promotion
	Provisions on capital transfers


	Domestic Regulation
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Services)
	Balance-of-payments measures (Services)
	Movement of Natural Persons
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Services)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Political Settlement / Consultations only
	Intellectual property rights
		Trademarks
	Environment
		No relaxation of environmental laws
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
		Cooperation
	E-Commerce

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	29-Oct-2004	Date of notification of changes	26-Jan-2005
Date of entry into force of changes:	01-Jan-2005
Remarks:	Supplement to the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

Related documents

Notification of changes	WT/REG163/1/Add.1	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	21-Oct-2005	Date of notification of changes	13-Jan-2006
Date of entry into force of changes:	01-Jan-2006
Remarks:	Supplement II to the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

Related documents

Notification of changes	WT/REG163/1/Add.2	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	26-Jun-2006	Date of notification of changes	29-Nov-2006
Date of entry into force of changes:	01-Jan-2007
Remarks:	Supplement III to the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

Related documents

Notification of changes	WT/REG163/1/Add.3	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	02-Jul-2007	Date of notification of changes	18-Dec-2007
Date of entry into force of changes:	02-Jul-2007
Remarks:	Supplement IV to the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

Related documents

Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.1	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.1	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	30-Jul-2008	Date of notification of changes	21-Jan-2009
Date of entry into force of changes:	30-Jul-2008
Remarks:	Supplement V to the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

Related documents

Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.2	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.2	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	11-May-2009	Date of notification of changes	31-Jul-2009
Date of entry into force of changes:	11-May-2009
Remarks:	Supplement VI to the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

Related documents

Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.3	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.3	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	28-May-2010	Date of notification of changes	13-Dec-2010
Date of entry into force of changes:	28-May-2010
Remarks:	Supplement VII to the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

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Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.4	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.4	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	14-Dec-2011	Date of notification of changes	07-Mar-2012
Date of entry into force of changes:	14-Dec-2011
Remarks:	Supplement VIII to the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

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Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.5	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.5	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	02-Jul-2012	Date of notification of changes	14-Sep-2012
Date of entry into force of changes:	02-Jul-2012
Remarks:	Supplement IX to the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

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Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.6	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.6	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	30-Aug-2013	Date of notification of changes	12-Nov-2013
Date of entry into force of changes:	30-Aug-2013
Remarks:	Supplement X to the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement

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Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.7	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.7	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	18-Dec-2014	Date of notification of changes	30-Mar-2015
Date of entry into force of changes:	18-Dec-2014
Remarks:	On 18 December 2014, China and Macao, China signed the Agreement between the Mainland and Macao on Achieving Basic Liberalization of Trade in Services in Guangdong under the framework of CEPA. The Agreement adopts a hybrid approach of negative and positive listings in further liberalization, covering 153 services trade sub-sectors. Among all, positively listed sectors such as telecommunications and cultural services introduce 24 new liberalization measures, including the opening up of additional 84 sectors for individually owned stores. National treatment will be applied to Macao in 58 sub-sectors, including advertising, photography, convention, hotels and restaurants, tourist guides, road transport and so on. With respect to investment facilitation, Macao service suppliers in the majority of the services sub-sectors are given the same treatment as companies from the Mainland. While the Agreement came into effect on 18 December 2014, the further liberalization measures with regard to trade in services will be implemented on 1 March 2015.

Related documents

Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.8	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.8	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	28-Nov-2015	Date of notification of changes	01-Apr-2016
Date of entry into force of changes:	28-Nov-2015
Remarks:	On 28 November 2015, China and Macao, China signed the Agreement on Trade in Services ("the Agreement") under the framework of CEPA. On the basis of CEPA and its Supplements, as well as the Agreement between the Mainland and Macao on Achieving Basic Liberalization of Trade in Services in Guangdong ("the Guangdong Agreement"), the Agreement further enhances the liberalization of trade in services in both breadth and depth. It includes extending the implementation of liberalization measures in the Guangdong Agreement to the whole Mainland; adding 20 liberalization measures in the positive lists for cross-border services as well as cultural and telecommunication services; and reducing the non-conforming measures in the negative list to 120. The Agreement also sets out provisions for the most-favoured treatment and investment facilitation. The Agreement came into effect on 28 November 2015, and will be implemented as from 1 June 2016.

Related documents

Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.9	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.9	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods & Services
Date of signature of changes:	18-Dec-2017	Date of notification of changes	18-May-2018
Date of entry into force of changes:	18-Dec-2017
Remarks:	Notification of the Investment Agreement and the Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation ("Ecotech Agreement") under the framework of the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ("CEPA"). The Investment Agreement covers admission of investments, investment protection and facilitation, and broadens the commitments on investment under the framework of CEPA by extending the liberalization of investment access to non-services sectors. The Investment Agreement came into effect on the day of signing and had been implemented as from 1 January 2018. The Ecotech Agreement harmonises and updates the economic and technical cooperation activities set out in CEPA and its Supplements. Among others are chapters on deepening economic and trade cooperation areas of the "Belt and Road" Initiative, Sub-regional Cooperation and the development of Macao as a commercial and trade cooperation service platform between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries, which are the key cooperation areas between the Mainland and Macao, China. The Ecotech Agreement came into effect on the day of signing.

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Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.10	E F S
Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.10	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Goods
Date of signature of changes:	12-Dec-2018	Date of notification of changes	29-Apr-2019
Date of entry into force of changes:	12-Dec-2018
Remarks:	The Agreement on Trade in Goods of CEPA (hereinafter referred to as "the Agreement") was signed on 12 December 2018 between China and Macao China. The Agreement came into effect on the date of signature and was officially implemented from 1 January 2019. The Agreement has integrated the relevant provisions in CEPA and its 10 Supplements, and enriched the content of cooperation by establishing the rules of origin for all products classified under the Mainland tariff codes, and further enhancing the level of customs clearance facilitation, so as to promote the movement of goods between the two places and to foster the continuous development of Macao manufacturing industry. The Agreement also has a dedicated chapter for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to implement specific measures for customs clearance of goods within the Bay Area to assist Macao's business sector to integrate into the national development strategies and promote the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in a jointly basis.

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Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG163/N/1/Add.11	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Services
Date of signature of changes:	20-Nov-2019	Date of notification of changes	18-Mar-2020
Date of entry into force of changes:	20-Nov-2019
Remarks:	The Agreement Concerning Amendment to the CEPA Agreement on Trade in Services CEPA consolidates and sums up the previous liberalization measures relating to trade in services in the CEPA series. The Agreement further expands the scope of liberalization in finance, legal, accounting, construction and engineering, cultural, tourism, distribution, education and other services sectors. Furthermore, the Agreement proposes 11 liberalization measures including finance, legal, education, construction, tourism sectors S/C/N/265/Add.11 that are implemented on a pilot basis in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

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Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.11	E F S

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	China, Macao, China	Changes affect:	Services
Date of signature of changes:	10-Oct-2024	Date of notification of changes	06-Dec-2024
Date of entry into force of changes:	10-Oct-2024
Remarks:	The Second Agreement Concerning Amendment to the CEPA Agreement on Trade in Services eliminates the three-year substantive business operation requirement for most service sectors, providing Macao service providers with easier access to the Mainland market. Additionally, it introduces pilot initiatives in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and includes expanded liberalization measures in sectors such as high-tech, financial services, and audio-visual culture. Moreover, it grants professionals in fields like construction and engineering, accounting, medical care, and education facilitative entry conditions into the Mainland of China, empowering Macao service providers to capitalize on their professional strengths and pursue business growth opportunities in the Mainland of China. The Second Amendment Agreement came into effect on the day of signing (i.e. 10 October 2024) and will be implemented on 1 March 2025.

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Notification of changes (S)	S/C/N/265/Add.12	E F S

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