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15 April 2019 
(19-2493) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Rules of Origin  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER P ARAGRAPH 4  
OF ANNEX II OF THE A GREEMENT ON RULES OF  ORIGIN  
PREFERENTIAL RULES O F ORIGIN  
1.1.  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 . Lists of 
informati on received and available within the Secretariat shall be circulated to Members by the 
Secretariat  under the G/RO/N/ - series.  
1.2.  The Committee on Rules of Origin further agreed that, with respect to preferential rules of 
origin, notifications made to the Comm ittee 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 notifica tions 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 retrieved through the WTO  database of regional trade 
agreements ( http://rtais.wto.org ) or in the WTO  database of preferential trade agreements 
(http://ptadb.wto.org ). 
1.3.  Accordingly, the following notif ication has been received:  
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT  BETWEEN MERCOSUR (ARGENTINA;  BRAZIL; PARAGUAY AN D 
URUGUAY) AND ISRAEL1 
The texts of the Agreement can be found in the following internet links:  
Israel :  
http://economy.gov.il/English/InternationalAffairs/ForeignTradeAdministration/TradePolicyAgreem
ents/BilateralAgreements/Pages/Mercosur.aspx ; and 
For MERCOSUR , Paraguay :   
www.mre.gov.py/tratados/public_web/Tratados.aspx . 
 
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1 Originally notified to the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) and circulated in 
document  WT/REG39 8/N/1 of 1 April 2019. 