  
WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1/Add.50  
 
13 March 2020  
(20-2014) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Trade and Development  Original: Spanish  
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF CHAN GES AFFECTING THE IM PLEMENTATION  
OF A REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENT  
Addendum  
AAP.CE 51 (Articles 7 and 8 of the TM80)  
 
 
1.  
Member(s) notifying: Cuba and Mexico  
 
 
2.  
Date of notification: 31 October 2001  
 
 
3. 
  
Notification pursuant to:  
 
[ ] Article XXIV:7(a) of GATT 1994  
[ ] Article V:7(a) of GATS  
[ X ] Paragraph 4(a) of the Enabling Clause  
 
 
4.  
Parties to the Agreement:  Cuba and Mexico  
 
 
5.  
Date of signature: 17 October 2000  
 
 
6.  
Date(s) of entry into force: 28 February 2001  
 
 
7.  
Brief description of the Agreement:  
 
AAP.CE 5 1 (Articles 7 and 8 of the TM80)  
 
Partial Scope Economic Complementarity Agreement No. 51 (AAP.CE  51) has. among other 
objectives, to promote and diversify the trade between the two countries, at the highest 
possible level, through the reduction or elimination of the levies and other restrictions 
applicable to the import of products.  
 
AAP.CE 51 is bas ed on the granting of preferences relating to the levies and other restrictions 
imposed by the parties to the import of the products negotiated in the Agreements, when 
these originate in and come from their respective territories, registered in Annexes I a nd II.  
 
Where the origin regime in concerned, the parties decide to adopt the Association's general 
origin arrangements, the revised and consolidated text of which was approved by 
Resolution  252 of the LAIA Committee of Representatives.  
 
In addition, AAP.C E 51 includes provisions on safeguards, unfair foreign trade practices, and 
technical standards, among other issues.  WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1/Add.50  
 
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  8. Text and related schedules, annexes and protocols are:  
 
[ ] submitted to the WTO Secretariat (electronic format)   
[ X ] available from the following official Internet link(s):  
 
http://www.aladi.org/nsfaladi/textacdos.nsf/800d239280151ad2 83257d8000551d1f/bccaa7
e28fcd80408325698100513d7e?OpenDocument  
 