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Agreement name:	Mexico - Uruguay
Coverage:	Goods & Services	Type:	Free Trade Agreement & Economic Integration Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV, Enabling Clause & GATS Art. V
Date of signature:	15-Nov-2003	Date of notification:	28-Jun-2013
Date of entry into force:	15-Jul-2004	End of implementation period:	2013
Remarks:	LAIA Reference: AAP.CE 60. Agreement notified by the Parties under GATT Article XXIV and GATS V. Later, the goods aspects of this Agreement were also notified under the Enabling Clause by LAIA Parties as a change to the LAIA's 1980 Treaty of Montevideo (WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1/Add.59).
Current signatories:	Mexico; Uruguay
Original signatories:	Mexico; Uruguay
RTA Composition:	Bilateral
Region:	North America; South America
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Related agreements

Latin American Integration Association (LAIA)

Official Web Address

México, Secretaría de Economía
Uruguay, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	S

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	S

Consideration status (G):	Factual Presentation issued	Consideration status (S):	Factual Presentation on hold
Date of Consideration (G):	23-Sep-2014

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG345

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification (G)	WT/REG345/N/1	E F S
Notification (S)	S/C/N/701	E F S
Notification of LAIA Treaty	WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1	E F S
Factual Presentation (G)	WT/REG345/1	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG345/2	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG345/3	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG345/M/1	E F S
Notification of changes	WT/REG345/N/1/Add.1	E F S
Notification of changes (under the LAIA Framework)	WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1/Add.59	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
		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
		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
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Stricter rules on imposition of intra-RTA Anti-Dumping measures
	Countervailing measures
		Stricter rules on imposition of intra-RTA countervailing measures
	Subsidies (Goods)
		Prohibition of agricultural export subsidies
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	Denial of benefits
	Services
		Standstill provision (Services)
		Ratchet provision (Services)
		MFN provision (Services)
	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Investment Liberalization Provisions
		MFN provision (Investment)
		National Treatment with regard to the entry of investment (establishment)
		Investment liberalization


	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Protection
		Investor to State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) included
	Provisions on capital transfers
	Domestic Regulation
	Mutual Recognition
	Balance-of-payments measures (Services)
	Movement of Natural Persons
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Services)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to all third parties
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
		Choice of forum
		Exclusive use of forum chosen
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
		Copyrights and neighbouring rights
		Patent
		Trademarks
		Industrial Designs
		Geographical Indications (GIs)
		Enforcement
	Competition
		Adopts or maintains competition law
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (Competition)
	Provisions on designated monopolies or State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)

Document title
Mexico
Uruguay

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	Mexico, Uruguay	Changes affect:	Goods
Date of signature of changes:	01-Oct-2012	Date of notification of changes	24-Jul-2014
Date of entry into force of changes:	01-Mar-2013
Remarks:	Notification of the entry into force of the Protocol Amending the Free Trade Agreement between the United Mexican States and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. The Amending Protocol establishes annual quotas with 100% preference for powdered milk; it modifies the specific requirement of origin for products of heading 1505; and it provides for the possibility of using expanded cumulation of origin under specific conditions to be determined within the ambit of the Administrative Commission.

Related documents

Notification of changes	WT/REG345/N/1/Add.1	E F S

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