WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/REG115/4/Add.1
30 May 2002
(02-3000)
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements Original:  English
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN TURKEY AND
THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Questions and Replies
Addendum
I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE AGREEMENT
4. Trade Data
Turkey's Trade with Macedonia, 2001
(US $)
Chapter Imports Exports
1 1,951
2 1,310,233
3 22,333
4 309,236
67 5
7 1,681,309
8 6,030,575
9 196,765
10 24,268
11 68,096
12 34,184
15 298,267
16 42,439
17 3,014,789
18 1,522,597
19 3,755,788
20 826,716
21 584,729 1,055,813
22 386,101
25 818,794
26 50,648 47
27 1,473,765
28 68,661 122,749
29 294,349 248,224
30 363,322
31 8,188
32 977 328,558
33 707,081
34 8,211 1,685,409
35 182,672
36 68,517WT/REG115/4/Add.1
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Chapter Imports Exports
37 5,037
38 4,061 738,838
39 44,822 5,564,294
40 821 202,903
41 2,169,787 25,453
42 47,329
44 143,561 1,881,558
45 3,155
46 4,828
48 28,292 3,255,766
49 25,087
50 73
51 420,736
52 100,544 4,404,704
53 5,400
54 836,327
55 174,261 1,839,416
56 5,247 189,090
57 1,786 2,897,335
58 1,696 863,329
59 94,933
60 538,287 5,336,115
61 739,446
62 6,359 191,077
63 3,102,217
64 1,390,484
65 6,268
66 67,692
67 2,570
68 109,515
69 920,419
70 163,584 1,233,408
71 236,079
72 400,155 850,304
73 57,416 3,181,161
74 19,103 81,111
75 133
76 102,821 3,730,258
78 330,344 4,967
79 2,553,987
82 89,710
83 4,316 838,930
84 88,668 5,234,019
85 499,047 5,606,594
86 116,074 12,146
87 322,558 2,068,512
90 8,432 188,174
91 9,469
92 5,180
93 292
94 16,434 3,482,883
95 684,551
96 106,572
97 747
Total 8,910,038 89,405,455WT/REG115/4/Add.1
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II. TRADE PROVISIONS
3. Rules of Origin
Does the Agreement establishes preferential ru les of origin for all items and tariff lines,
or does any specific rules of origin apply to spec ific items?  Regarding the sufficient working or
processing criteria, do the Parties apply the value-added or other criteria?
The rules of origin on trade between Turkey and Macedonia is clearly defined in Protocol 2 of
the Agreement which has been submitted to the Secretariat for consultation by interested Members.
5. Safeguards
6. Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures
Regarding the global application of safeguar d measures, can the Parties explain what is
meant by "serious disturbance in any sector" and how this would be applied.
On anti-dumping measures, the Standard Format (WT/REG115/3/Rev.1) made
reference to the rules and procedures establis hed in Article 21 of the Agreement.  However,
Article 21 relates to the "Procedure for the Application of Safeguard Measures".  Can the
Parties provide further clarification on that ?
The confusion on safeguard measure and the procedure for the application of safeguard
measures is due to the fact that the translation of the Agreement from Turkish to English is not made
in the conformity with the terminology of the WTO.
As Turkish translation of safeguard measure and trade remedy is the same and while
translating this Turkish word to English, exact WTO terminology has not been used. Thus, instead of
“safeguard measure”, the phrase of “emergency action” and instead of “trade remedy”, the phrase of
“safeguard measure” have been used.
Article 18 of the Agreement whose heading has been translated as “Emergency Action on
Imports of Particular Products” concerns the application of safeguard measure.
Article 21 of the Agreement whose heading, has been translated as “Procedure for the
Application of Safeguard Measures” concerns the procedure for the application of trade remedies.
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