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Agreement name:	EFTA - Albania
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	17-Dec-2009	Date of notification:	07-Feb-2011
Date of entry into force:	01-Nov-2010	End of implementation period:	2011
Remarks:	Dates of entry into force: 01-Nov-2010 for Albania, Liechtenstein and Switzerland; 01-Aug-2011 for Albania and Norway; 01-Oct-2011 for Albania and Iceland.
Current signatories:	Albania; Iceland; Liechtenstein; Norway; Switzerland
Original signatories:	Albania; Iceland; Liechtenstein; Norway; Switzerland
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	No

Official Web Address

European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
Albania, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E

Consideration status:

Factual Presentation issued

Date of Consideration

18-Sep-2012

Early announcement

Date negotiations commenced:	12-May-2009	Date of signature:	17-Dec-2009

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG292

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification (Albania, Liechtenstein, Switzerland)	WT/REG292/N/1	E F S
Notification (Albania and Norway)	WT/REG292/N/2	E F S
Notification (Albania and Iceland)	WT/REG292/N/3	E F S
Factual Presentation	WT/REG292/1/Rev.1	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG292/2	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG292/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)
		Other Criteria(s)
		De minimis rules
		Outward-processing allowed
		Cumulation among Parties
		Cumulation with non-Parties permitted
	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
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Safeguard Agreement
		Exclusion of an RTA party in global safeguard action
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping
		Prohibition of intra-RTA Anti-Dumping measures
	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)
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	Services
		MFN provision (Services)


	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Promotion
	Rendez-Vous clause (Investment)
	Provisions on capital transfers
	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
		No relaxation of environmental laws
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
		Transparency provisions

Document title
EFTA
Albania