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ORGANIZATIONWT/REG108/4/Add.1
12 September 2001
(01-4279)
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements Original:  English
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN ESTONIA AND UKRAINE
Questions and Replies
Addendum
This document reproduces additional questions addressed to Estonia and the responses
submitted.  The questions and replies set out below are organized in accordance with
document WT/REG108/3.
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II. TRADE PROVISIONS
3. Rules of origin
During the March 8 Meeting (WT/REG108/M/1), the United States inquired to confirm
that the existence of commitments by Estonia to the European system of cumulation did not
affect the implementation of the Agreement or any trade.  The Estonian representative stated
that the cumulation system would not affect Estonia-Ukraine trade because of Protocol A of the
Agreement that defined the rules of origin regime between the two countries.  Protocol A,
Article 4, provides for “Cumulation with materials originating in Latvia, Lithuania, and the
European Community,” conditional on implementa tion of certain rules of origin agreements
between all the Parties.
(a) Can the Parties confirm that products with origin attributable to Latvia,
Lithuania and the European Community will be considered eligible for the
benefits of this agreement to that extent?
According to the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Estonia and Ukraine, only goods of
Estonian origin are considered eligible for prefer ential treatment in Ukraine.  Respectively, only
goods of Ukrainian origin are eligible for preferential treatment in Estonia within this agreement.
Products with origin attributable to Latvia or Lithuania or the European Community are not
considered eligible for preferential treatment within the FTA between Estonia and Ukraine.
Products of Latvian or Lithuanian origin are considered eligible for preferential treatment
within the FTA between Latvia and Ukraine or Lithuania and Ukraine respectively.
(b) Does each respective Party’s agreement with the European Community provide
for recognition of any other origin, other than EC origin, as qualifying for EC
origin under that agreement, and therefore, by extension, under this agreement?WT/REG108/4/Add.1
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Each respective Party’s agreement with th e European Community in the Pan-European
system provides for recognition of respective origin in the system, but does not provide for
recognition of any other origin, other than EC origin, as qualifying for EC origin under that
agreement.
(c) Estonia has indicated that it has concluded 12 Free Trade Agreements
(WT/REG108/4).  In its recent agreeme nts, it was not clear which of them
included the Pan-European system of cumulation or other rules of origin
regimes.  Can such information please be provided, for the purpose of assessing
the information provided above?
The following agreements and free trade agreements are covered by the Pan-European system
of cumulation:
- Europe Agreement between the European Communities and the Republic of Estonia;
- FTA between the Republic of Estonia and EFTA;
-     FTA between the Republic of Estonia and Czech Republic;
-     FTA between the Republic of Estonia and Slovak Republic;-     FTA between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Slovenia;
- FTA between the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Lithuania;
- FTA between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Turkey;
- FTA between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Poland;
- FTA between the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Hungary.
In addition, Estonia has concluded FTAs with Faroe Islands and Ukraine and these countries
do not belong to the Pan-European system of cumulation.
9. Other
What is the status of Ukraine and Estonia’s efforts to open up their procurement
processes to each other?
Currently no legal instruments have been adopted in the area of government procurement
between Estonia and Ukraine.
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