WORLD TRADE WT/REG44/N/1
24September 1997
ORGANIZATION(97-3976)
Original: English Committee onRegional Trade Agreements
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN ROMANIA
AND THE REPUBLIC OFMOLDOVA
Notification from theParties totheAgreement
Ihavethehonour toinform youthatRomania hasconcluded afreetrade agreement withthe
Republic ofMoldova. Pursuant toArticle XXIV:7(a), Ihavethehonour totransmit herewith the
standard notification together withthetextoftheAgreement.1
Thefreetradeagreement concluded between theGovernment ofRomania andtheGovernment
ofMoldova wassigned on15February 1994. TheAgreement entered intoforce on1January 1995.
Thepurpose ofthisfreetrade agreement istoestablish afree-trade areawithin themeaning
ofArticle XXIV oftheGATT 1994, between Romania andtheRepublic ofMoldova. Following the
entry intoforce oftheAgreement, thecustoms duties, quantitative restrictions ontrade andmeasures
having anequivalent effect havebeeneliminated between thetwoParties.
TheAgreementalsocontainsanumberofgeneralrulesconcerninginparticulartechnicalbarriers
totrade, sanitary andphyto-sanitary measures, state monopolies, state aid,public procurement,
intellectual property, dumping andsafeguard measures. Under aclause providing forfuture
developments, theParties totheAgreement undertake toexamine thepossibilities offurther developing
anddeepening theco-operation between them.
1ThetextoftheAgreement iscirculated indocument WT/REG44/1.