G/MA/QR/N/UKR/5/Add.1  
 
28 September  2021 
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Committee on Market Access  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO THE DECISION ON NOTIFICATION  PROCEDURE S 
FOR QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS (G/L/59/REV.1)  
UKRAIN E 
Addendum  
The following communication, dated 22 September  2021, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Ukraine . 
 
A. Notifying Member:  Ukraine  
B. Date of notification:  22 September 2021  
C. First time notification:  
 Yes 
 No, last notification was made in (doc. symbol ): G/MA/QR/N/UKR/5  
D. Type of notification:  
 1. Complete (i.e. notification of all quantitative restrictions in force ) 
 2. Changes to a notification previously made in G/MA/QR/N/UKR/5  which are of the 
following nature : 
  2.1 Introduction of new restri ctions, as listed in Section 1. 
  2.2 Elimination of restrictions, as described in G below . 
  2.3 Modification of a previously notified restriction, as described in S ection 1. 
 3. Reverse notification of restrictions maintained by (Member ):  
E. The notification provides information for the follo wing biennial period 
(e.g.  2012 -2014): 2020-2022 and r elates to restrictions in force as of   
22 September 2021  
F. This notification contains information* relating to:  
 Section 1:  List of quantitative restrictions that are currently in force . 
 Section 2:  Cross -reference to other WTO notifications with information on quantitative 
restrictions that are currently in force and additional information . 
G. Comments of a general nature, including a description of the elimination of 
restrictions notified under D.2.2 and the date they ceased to be in force.  
List of measures that are in force as of 22. 09.2021 in addition to measures previously 
notified in document G/MA/QR/N/UKR/5  
 
 
* In English  only.  
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- 2 - Section  1: List of quantitative restrictions that are currently in force  
 
 General 
description of 
the restriction  Type of 
restriction  
 Tariff line 
code(s) 
affected, 
according to 
UKTZED 
(based on HS 
2017) Detailed Product Description  WTO Justification 
and Grounds for 
Restriction, e.g., 
Other International 
Commitments)  National legal basis 
and entry into force  Administration, 
modification of 
previously notified 
measures, and other 
comments  
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
1 Restriction on the 
importation and 
exportation of 
aquatic 
bioresources and 
products thereof  
(toothfish)  
 NAL 
NAL-X 
 0303830000  
0304850000  Aquatic bioresources and 
products thereof  (toothfish)  Article XX (g) of the 
GATT – conservation 
of exhaustible natural 
resources, inter alia  
 Law of Ukraine "On 
Fishery, Commercial 
[Industrial] Fishery and 
Protection of Aquatic 
Bioresources” of 2011  
(Art. 351) 
 
The Law entered into 
force on 04 October 
2018 Administered by the 
State Fisheries Agency , 
which issues  
form for registration of 
catches (re -export) of 
Antarctic and 
Patagonian Toothfish,  
necessary for the 
movement across the 
customs border of 
Ukraine of appropriate 
aquatic bioresources 
and products thereof  
 
2 Restriction on the 
importation of  
cigarette tissue  
and filters for 
industrial 
cigarette 
production  NAL 
CP 4813 
 (except for 
subcategory 
4813 10 00 00)  
 
5601 22 90 00 
(5601 22 90 00 
(except for 
filters as 
finished 
products 
intended for 
sale to end 
users in 
separate  Cigarette tissue  
 
 
 
 
Filters for industrial cigarette 
production: acetate filter sticks 
(tubes of cellulose acetate 
fibers covered with cigarette 
tissue ) Article XX (d) of the 
GATT - to secure 
compliance with 
domestic regulation s, 
inter alia ;  
Article XX (b)  of the 
GATT – protection of 
human life and 
health, inter alia  Law of Ukraine "On 
state regulation of 
production and 
circulation of ethyl, 
cognac and fruit 
alcohol, alcoholic 
beverages, tobacco 
goods and fuel" of 1995  
(Art. 1 5) 
 
The Law entered into 
force on 04 September 
2014 Administered by the 
State Tax Service  
 
Imports of cigarette 
tissue and filters for 
industrial cigarette 
production can be 
carried out by entities 
(including foreign 
entities operating 
through registered 
permanent 
establishments), which   
  G/MA/QR/N/UKR/5/Add.1  
 
- 3 -  General 
description of 
the restriction  Type of 
restriction  
 Tariff line 
code(s) 
affected, 
according to 
UKTZED 
(based on HS 
2017) Detailed Product Description  WTO Justification 
and Grounds for 
Restriction, e.g., 
Other International 
Commitments)  National legal basis 
and entry into force  Administration, 
modification of 
previously notified 
measures, and other 
comments  
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
   consumer 
packaging and 
not used for 
industrial 
cigarette 
production)     have a license for the 
manufacture  of tobacco 
products  
 
Such goods are 
imported without the 
right of further 
distribution in Ukraine  
 
 
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