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Agreement name:	EU - Jordan
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	24-Nov-1997	Date of notification:	17-Dec-2002
Date of entry into force:	01-May-2002	End of implementation period:	2013
Remarks:	Official Journal of the European Union: L 129 of 15-May-2002. The United Kingdom was a Member State of the European Union until 31 January 2020. The European Union and the United Kingdom have agreed a Withdrawal Agreement pursuant to Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, which provides for a time-limited transition period during which European Union law, with limited exceptions as provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement will apply to and in the United Kingdom. Further details are available in the communication from the United Kingdom (WT/GC/206) dated 1 February 2020 and the note verbal from the European Union (WT/LET/1462) dated 27 January 2020 notifying WTO members that the United Kingdom is treated as a member State of the European Union for the purposes of relevant international agreements for the duration of the transition period.
Current signatories:	Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Jordan
Original signatories:	Austria; Belgium; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Italy; Jordan; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Portugal; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom
RTA Composition:	Bilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Europe; Middle East
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Related agreements

EU Treaty

Official Web Address

European Commission
Jordan, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E F S

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E F S

Consideration status:	Factual Abstract issued

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG141

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG141/N/1	E F S
Agreement	WT/REG141/1	E F S
Factual Abstract		E
Standard Format for information on RTAs	WT/REG141/3	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG141/4	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG141/5	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG141/M/1	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG141/M/2	E F S
Implementation Report	WT/REG141/R/I	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/10	E F S

Document type	Language
Factual Abstract (G)	E

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 28/09/2021

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 Duties and Charges prohibited
	All Export restrictions, including quantitative restrictions, prohibited
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Harmonization/alignement of TBT measures at the bilateral/regional level
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		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
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Goods)
	Denial of benefits
	Services
	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Investment Liberalization Provisions
		MFN provision (Investment)
		National Treatment with regard to the entry of investment (establishment)
	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Promotion


	Rendez-Vous clause (Investment)
	Provisions on capital transfers
	Mutual Recognition
	Balance-of-payments measures (Services)
	Movement of Natural Persons
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
	Government procurement
	Intellectual property rights
		Copyrights and neighbouring rights
		Patent
		Trademarks
	Competition
	Provisions on designated monopolies or State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
	Environment
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
		Cooperation
	Gender
		Cooperation between the Parties

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