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Agreement name:	Treaty on a Free Trade Area between members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV
Date of signature:	18-Oct-2011	Date of notification:	06-Jun-2013
Date of entry into force:	20-Sep-2012	End of implementation period:	2020
Remarks:	Dates of entry into force: 20-Sep-2012 for the Russian Federation, Belarus and Ukraine; 17-Oct-2012 for Armenia; 08-Dec-2012 for Kazakhstan; 09-Dec-2012 for the Republic of Moldova; 13-Dec-2013 for Kyrgyz Republic; 24-Dec-2015 for Tajikistan. Please note that in accordance with paragraph 23.1, 23.2 and Annex 5 of the Treaty on a Free Trade Area between Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, and Ukraine, a number of agreements previously in force are terminated. See documents WT/REG82/N/3 & WT/REG/GEN/N/8-9.
Current signatories:	Armenia; Belarus; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyz Republic; Moldova, Republic of; Russian Federation; Tajikistan; Ukraine
Original signatories:	Armenia; Belarus; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyz Republic; Moldova, Republic of; Russian Federation; Tajikistan; Ukraine
RTA Composition:	Plurilateral
Region:	Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), including certain associate and former member States; Europe
All Parties WTO members?	No	Cross-Regional:	Yes

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Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E

Consideration status:

Awaiting comments from the Parties on the Factual Presentation

Early announcement

		Date of signature:	18-Oct-2011

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG343

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	WT/REG343/N/1	E F S
Notification	WT/REG343/N/2	E F S
Notification	WT/REG343/N/3	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/8	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG/GEN/N/9	E F S
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/REG82/N/3	E F S

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 01/12/2017

Topics
	All tariffs eliminated at end of implementation by at least one Party
	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
	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
	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)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to all third parties
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
		Provision for financial compensation
	Government procurement