WORLD TRADE WT/REG34/N/1
20February 1997
ORGANIZATION(97-0688)
Committee onRegional Trade Agreements Original: English
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN LATVIA AND SLOVENIA
Communication from theParties totheAgreement
Thefollowing communication, dated 14February 1997, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Mission oftheRepublic ofSlovenia andthePermanent Mission oftheRepublic ofLatvia withthe
request thatitbedistributed toWTO Members.
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Thedelegations ofLatvia andSlovenia havethehonour toinform theMembers oftheWorld
Trade Organization thataFree Trade Agreement between Latvia andSlovenia wassigned on
22April 1996 andcame intoforce, onaprovisional basis, on1August 1996. ThisAgreement will
beapplied provisionally untilitisratified bybothParties totheAgreement.
TheAgreementcontainsprovisionsrelatingtotradeingoodsthatareofrelevancetotheMembers
oftheWorld Trade Organization.
TheAgreement provides fortheestablishment ofafree-trade areabetween Latvia andSlovenia
inthesense ofArticle XXIV oftheGATT 1994, which willbeestablished by1January 1999. At
thattimeduties andother restrictive regulations ofcommerce willhavebeeneliminated onsubstantially
alltrade between thesignatories.
Thetextoftheagreement willbesubmitted totheMembers inthenearfuture.