WORLD TRADE WT/REG37/N/1
20February 1997
ORGANIZATION(97-0689)
Committee onRegional Trade Agreements Original: English
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN ESTONIA AND SLOVENIA
Communication from theParties totheAgreement
Thefollowing communication, dated 14February 1997, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Mission oftheRepublic ofSlovenia andthePermanent Mission ofEstonia withtherequest thatitbe
distributed toWTO Members.
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Thedelegations ofEstonia andSlovenia havethehonour toinform theMembers oftheWorld
Trade Organization thataFree Trade Agreement between Estonia andSlovenia wassigned on
26November 1996 andthatitcame intoforce, onaprovisional basis, on1January 1997.1This
Agreement willbeapplied provisionally untilitisratified bybothParties totheAgreement.
TheAgreementcontainsprovisionsrelatingtotradeingoodsthatareofrelevancetotheMembers
oftheWorld Trade Organization.
TheAgreement provides fortheestablishment ofafree-trade areabetween Estonia andSlovenia
inthesense ofArticle XXIV oftheGATT 1994, which hasalready beenestablished onadefacto
basis. Duties andother restrictive regulations ofcommerce havebeeneliminated onsubstantially all
trade between thesignatories.
1ThetextoftheAgreement iscirculated indocument WT/REG37/1.