WT/REG/W/103  
 
22 March 2016  
(16-1634)  Page: 1/4  
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements  Original: English  
 
COMMITTEE ON REGIONAL  TRADE AGREEMENTS 
SUBMISSION FROM THE UNITED STATES 
 In the interest of advancing the work of  the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements, 
enhancing the effectiveness of the Transparency  Mechanism, and improving the transparency 
available to Members regarding regional trade ag reements, the United States circulates this 
document containing a list of non-notified RTAs and delayed Factual Presentations of notified 
regional trade agreements. 
  The document is intended to raise Members' aw areness of existing gaps in transparency in 
regional trade agreements which hamper future efforts to evaluate, analyse or assess systemic 
implications of regional trade agreements on the multilateral trading system. 
 
Understanding that the Transparency Mechanism can only be effective if all relevant regional 
trade agreements are considered, and that Members undertook to provide relevant data and other 
information to the Secretariat to enable the Mech anism to function, the United States seeks to 
promote a discussion within the Committee on Regi onal Trade Agreements on how to address the 
below list of non-notified agreements and delayed Factual Presentations. 
  A. INDICATIVE LIST OF RTAS THAT HAVE NO T YET BEEN NOTIFIED TO THE WTO, AS OF 
22 MARCH 2016 
 RTA Name Date of Entry into 
Forcea Coverage 
1 Andean Community 14.12.06 Services 
2 Belize - Guatemala 04.04.10 Goods 
3 Botswana - Malawi 1956 Goods 
4 Botswana - Zimbabwe 1956, amended in 1988 Goods 
5 Brazil - Suriname 26.07.06 Goods 
6 Brazil - Guyana - St Kitts and Nevis 31.05.04 Goods 
7 CACM - Accession of Panama 06.05.13 Goods 
8 China - Chinese Taipei 12.09.10 Goods & 
Services 
9 Colombia - CARICOM  01.01.95 Goods 
10 Colombia - Panama  01.01.95 Goods 
11 Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)  not provided Goods 
12 Costa Rica - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 27.07.94 Goods 
13 Costa Rica - CARICOM  15.11.05 Goods & 
Services 
14 Ecuador - Guatemala 19.02.13 Goods 
15 Georgia – Uzbekistan 15.10.10 Goods 
16 EFTA - Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) 01.07.14 Goods & 
Services 
17 GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova)  10.12.03 Goods 
18 El Salvador - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 09.07.86 Goods 
19 Guatemala - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 10.04.86 Goods 
20 Guatemala - Cuba 18.05.01 Goods WT/REG/W/103 
 
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   RTA Name Date of Entry into 
Forcea Coverage 
21 Honduras - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 22.09.86 Goods 
22 India - Thailand (Early Harvest) 01.09.04 Goods 
23 Jordan - Israel 19.04.96 Goods 
24 MERCOSUR - Israel 23.06.09 Goods 
25 Mexico - Panama  24.04.86 Goods 
26 Namibia - Zimbabwe not provided Goods 
27 Nicaragua - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 18.01.74 Goods 
28 Pakistan - Iran 01.10.06 Goods 
29 Peru - Thailand 31.12.11 Goods 
30 Republic of Moldova – Georgia 19.04.07 Goods 
31 Republic of Moldova – Azerbaijan 16.04.96 Goods 
32 Republic of Moldova – Kazakhstan 23.02.96 Goods 
33 Republic of Moldova – Turkmenistan 01.03.96 Goods 
34 Republic of Moldova - Uzbekistan 29.08.95 Goods 
35 Republic of Moldova - Belarus 07.12.94 Goods 
36 SAARC Agreement on Trade in Services 
(SATIS) 29.11.12 Services 
37 Tunisia - Iraq 31.12.99 Goods 
38 Tunisia - Libya 19.02.02 Goods 
39 Tunisia - Morocco 16.03.99 Goods 
 Agreements among LAIA parties: 
40 Argentina - Brazil 20.12.90 Goods 
41 Argentina - Brazil - Uruguay 27.06.92 Goods 
42 Argentina - Paraguay 28.11.89 Goods 
43 Argentina - Uruguay 01.05.03 Goods 
44 Brazil - Uruguay 01.10.86 Goods 
45 Chile - Argentina 02.08.91 Goods 
46 Chile - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 02.04.93 Goods 
47 Chile - Cuba 27.06.08 Goods 
48 Chile - Ecuador 25.01.10 Goods 
49 Chile - Plurinational State of Bolivia 06.04.93 Goods 
50 Colombia - Cuba  10.07.01 Goods 
51 Colombia - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 19.10.12 Goods 
52 LAIA - Accession of Panama 03.05.12 Goods 
53 LAIA - Cultural Goods b Goods 
54 LAIA - Seeds b Goods 
55 LAIA - Preferences in favour of Bolivia b Goods 
56 LAIA - Preferences in favour of Ecuador b Goods 
57 LAIA - Preferences in favour of Paraguay b Goods 
58 MERCOSUR - Accession of Venezuela 12.08.12 Goods & 
Services 
59 MERCOSUR - Andean Community 05.01.05 Goods 
60 MERCOSUR - Chile 01.10.96 Goods 
61 MERCOSUR - Cuba 02.07.07 Goods 
62 MERCOSUR - Mexico  01.01.03 Goods 
63 MERCOSUR - Peru 02.01.06 Goods 
64 MERCOSUR - Plurinational State of Bolivia 28.02.97 Goods 
65 Mexico - Argentina  01.01.87 Goods 
66 Mexico - Brazil   02.05.03 Goods 
67 Mexico - Cuba  28.02.01 Goods 
68 Mexico - Ecuador  01.05.83 Goods 
69 Mexico - Paraguay  01.07.84 Goods 
70 Mexico - Plurinational State of Bolivia 07.06.10 Goods 
71 Panama - Cuba 20.08.09 Goods 
72 Peru - Cuba 09.03.01 Goods WT/REG/W/103 
 
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   RTA Name Date of Entry into 
Forcea Coverage 
73 Uruguay - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 03.04.09 Goods 
a Dates of the first entry into forc e for at least one of the Parties. 
b Dates of entry into force di ffer. This Agreement is not applied by all LAIA Members. 
 
B. DELAYED FACTUAL PRESENTATIONS (FPs) 
Agreements notified under Art. XXIV of GATT and Art. V of the GATS 
 
Comments on FPs outstanding 
 
1. Iceland-China: no comments received from Iceland (Factual presentation sent to parties on 
12 October 2015) 
2. Iceland-Faeroe Islands: no comments from Faeroe Islands (Denmark) (Factual presentation 
sent to parties on 3 December 2009) 
 
CRTA data outstanding 
 1. EAEU: no data received from the Russian Fede ration, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic 
2. EU-PNG, Fiji EPA: no data from PNG and Fiji 
3. GCC-Singapore (S): no data from the GCC 
4. ASEAN-India (S): no data received 
5. Georgia-Russian Federation: incomplete data from the Russian Federation 
6. EU-Cameroon EPA: no data from Cameroon 
7. EU-Cote d'Ivoire EPA: no data from Cote d'Ivoire 
 
Non-member agreements: 1. Russia-Azerbaijan: no data received 
2. CEFTA Enlargement: no data from Bosnia an d Herzegovina, FYROM, Moldova and Kosovo. 
3. Turkey-Syria: no data from Syria 
4. EFTA-Lebanon: no data from the Lebanon 
5. EU-Cariforum: no data from Cariforum 
6. Ukraine-Azerbaijan: no data from Azerbaijan 
7. Ukraine-Turkmenistan: no data from Turkmenistan 
8. Common Economic Zone: no data from Russian Federation, Belarus and Kazakhstan 
9. Russia-Turkmenistan: no data received 
 Agreements notified under the Enabling Clause  
Comments on FPs outstanding 
 
1. EAC Enlargement (goods): no comments received (Factual presentation sent to parties on 
19 May 2014) 
2. ASEAN-India (goods). Comments from ASEAN outs tanding (Factual presentation sent to 
parties on 22 November 2013) 
 
Data outstanding 
 1. El Salvador-Cuba: no data received 
2. India-Nepal: no data received 
3. GCC-Singapore (G): data received from Singapore; incomplete data from Qatar; no data from 
the rest of the GCC 
4. Mauritius-Pakistan: some data received but incomplete 
 Non-member agreements: 
1. India-Afghanistan: no data received 
2. India-Bhutan: no data received 
  
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  Agreements notified under both Art.  XXIV of GATT and the Enabling Clause 
 1. GCC customs union: no comments received (Factual presentation sent to parties on 
22 October 2010) 
2. Korea-India: goods data not provided; services data provided by Korea 
3. Korea-ASEAN: goods data not provided; services data provided by Korea 
 
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