G/RO/N/175  
 
15 November 2018  
(18-7195) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Rules of Origin  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE  5 AND PARAGRAPH  4 OF 
ANNEX  II TO THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN  
NON-PREFERENTIAL AND PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
1. According to Article 5.1 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin, each Member shall provide to 
the Secretariat, within 90 days after the date of entry into force of the WTO Agreement for it, its 
rules of origin, judicial decisions, and administrative rulings of general application relating to rules 
of origin in effect on that date. If, by inadverten ce, a rule of origin has not been provided, the 
Member concerned shall provide it immediately after this fact becomes known. Article 5.2 of the 
Agreement provides, moreover, that during the period referred to in Article 2, Members introducing 
modifications , other than de minimis  modifications, to their rules of origin or introducing new rules 
of origin, shall publish a notice to that effect at least 60 days before the entry into force of the 
modified or new rule in such a manner as to enable interested part ies to become acquainted with 
the intention to modify a rule of origin or to introduce a new rule of origin, unless exceptional 
circumstances arise or threaten to arise for a Member.  
2. Furthermore, paragraph 4 of Annex II to the Agreement on Rules of Orig in envisages that 
Members shall promptly provide to the Secretariat 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 appl ication relating to their preferential rules of origin. In this 
respect, the Committee on Rules of Origin further agreed that notifications made to the Committee 
on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) or the Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) could 
also suffice to discharge Members' notification obligations under the Agreement on Rules of Origin 
(G/RO/M/59). As a result, the Committee  agreed that notifications which had been initially received 
by the CRTA or the CTD should also be circulated by the Secre tariat to the CRO. Information 
regarding such notifications, including related to preferential rules of origin, can also be obtained 
through the WTO database on regional trade agreements ( http://rtais.wto.org ) or the W TO database 
on preferential trade agreements ( http://ptadb.wto.org ). 
3. With reference to these rules, the following notification has been received:  
KAZAKHSTAN  
With reference to the Agreement on Rules of Origin Article 5 and paragraph 4 of Annex II to the 
same agreement, we hereby inform about adopted amendments regarding non -preferential rules of 
origin and preferential rules of origin  in the Eurasian Economic Union's Common System of Tariff 
Preferences . 
A. NON-PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN   
Kazakhstan 's rules are provided in the following instrument:  
-  "Rules of origin of goods imported into the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic 
Union ( non-preferential rules of origin) ", adopted by t he Decision No. 49 of the Council  
of the Eurasian Economic Commission  of 13 July 2018 (enters into force on 
12 January  2019);  and 
-  Article 55 of Chapter 5 "Origin of Goods " of the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan 
No. 123-VI "On Customs Regulation in the Republic of Ka zakhstan " of 
26 December  2017.  G/RO/N/175  
 
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  B. PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
-  "Rules of origin for developing and least developed countries ", adopted by the Decision No.  60 
of the Council  of the Eurasian Economic Commission  of 14 June 201 8 (enters into force on 
16 January 2019);  and 
-  Free Trade Agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union and Its Member States and the 
Socialist Republic of Vietnam.  
The text of the Agreement can be found in the following internet links:  
- Eurasian Economic Union: https://docs.eaeunion.org/docs/en -us/0147849/iatc_02062015 . 
The legislative texts of n on-preferential rules of origin and p referential rules of origin in the Eurasian 
Economic Union's Common System of Tariff Preferences  can be found by the following link :   
- http://www.eurasiancommission.org/en/act/trade/dotp/prav_proish/Pages/default.aspx . 
 
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