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28 September  2023 
(23-6520) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Rules of Origin  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 4 OF ANNEX II  
OF THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN  
PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
1. Paragraph 4 of Annex II to the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that Members shall 
provide to the Secretariat as soon as possible their existing or new preferential rules of origin, 
including a listing of the preferential arrangements to which they apply, judicial decisions, and 
administrative rulings of general application relating to their preferential rules of origin. Lis ts of 
information received and available within the Secretariat shall be circulated to Members by the 
Secretariat under the G/RO/N/ series.  
2. The Committee on Rules of Origin further agreed that, with respect to preferential rules of 
origin, notifications ma de to the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) or to the 
Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) could also suffice to discharge their notification 
obligations under the Agreement on Rules of Origin (G/RO/M/59). As a result, the Committee agreed 
that notifications which had initially been received by the CRTA or the CTD should also be circulated 
by the Secretariat to the CRO. The information regarding such notifications, including related to 
preferential rules of origin, can, in addition, be retri eved through the WTO database of regional trade 
agreements ( http://rtais.wto.org ) or in the WTO database of preferential trade agreements 
(http://pta db.wto.org ). 
3. Accordingly, the following notification has been received : 
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN NORTH MACEDONIA AND UKRAINE1 
 
A.  PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
The text of the Agreement can be found in the following internet link:  
- https://www.economy.gov.mk/mk -MK/news/zakon -za-ratifikacija -na-izmenite -i-
dopolnu vanata -na-dogovorot -za-slobodna -trgovija -megu -republika -makedonija -i-
ukraina.nspx  
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1 Originally notified to the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) and circulated in document  
WT/REG248/N/1/Add.1  of 21 July 2023. 