WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/REG83/N/1
12 January 2000
(00-0101)
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements Original:  English
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN HUNGARY AND LITHUANIA
Notification by Hungary
The following communication, dated 20 December 1999, has been received from the
Permanent Mission of Hungary with the requested  that it be circulated to the WTO Members.
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The Permanent Mission of Hungary to the World Trade Organization, pursuant to
Article XXIV:7(a) of GATT 1994 and the Understanding of the Interpretation of Article XXIV of
GATT 1994, wishes to notify the Council for Trad e in Goods that Hungary has concluded a Free
Trade Agreement with Lithuania within the meaning of Article XXIV of GATT 1994.
The Lithuania-Hungary Free Trade Agreem ent was signed on 13 November 1998.  The
Agreement will enter into force on 1 March 2000.1
Hungary wishes to express its willingness to contribute actively to the process of examination
in accordance with the procedures agreed upon in the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements.
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1 The text of the Agreement is circulated in document WT/REG83/1.