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5 March 2021  
(21-1857) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements  Original:  English  
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENT  
1. Member(s) notifying:  United Kingdom  and Ghana  
2. Date of notification:  4 March 2021 
3. Notification pursuant to  
[X] Article XXIV:7(a) of GATT 1994  
[ ] Article V:7(a) of GATS  
[ ] Paragraph 4(a) of the Enabling Clause  
4. Parties to the Agreement:  United Kingdom  of the one part;  
and Ghana of the other part.   
5. Date of signature:  2 March 2021  
6. Date(s) of entry into Force:  5 March 2021  
7. Brief description of the Agreement:   
The U nited Kingdom  and Ghana 's previous preferential trading relationship was 
governed  by the Stepping Stone  Economic Partnership Agreement between Ghana, of the 
one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part  ("the 
EU-Ghana Agreement "). Please s ee document series : WT/REG382 . The Economic 
Partnership Agreement between the West African States, the Economic Community of West 
African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) , 
of the one part, and the European Union and its Members States, of the other  part ( "the 
EU-West Africa Agreement ") was signed by the UK and Ghana in December 2014 but has 
not entered into effect.  
The Interim Trade Partnership Agreement between the Republic of Ghana, of the one part, 
and the United Kingdom  of Great Britain and Nor thern Ireland, of the other  part ("the 
Agreement "), takes the EU -West Africa Agreement  as its basis and replicates the effects 
of the EU -Ghana Agreement .  
The Agreement establishes a free trade area for trade in goods, within the meaning of 
Article XXIV of the GATT 1994.  Preferential treatment under the Agreement will be 
provisionally applied by both parties as of 5th March 2021.  
Provisions on trade in goods includ e provisions on rules of origin  and preferential tariffs . It 
also contains provisions on customs and trade facilitation, technical barriers to trade, and 
sanitary and phytosanitary measures, development cooperation as well as institutional 
provisions . 
8. Text and related schedules, annexes and protocols are:  
[X] submitted to the WTO Secretariat (electronic format)  
[ ] available from the following official Internet link(s):  
 