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ORGANIZATION   
G/RO/N/84 
27 September 2012  
 
(12-5227) 
Committee on Rules of Origin  
  
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 5 AND ANNEX II:4 
OF THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN 
 
 A. N
ON-PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
1. Article 5.1 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that each Member shall provide to 
the Secretariat, within 90 days after the date of en try into force of the WTO Agreement for it, its rules 
of origin, judicial decisions, and administrative ru lings of general application relating to rules of 
origin in effect on that date.  If by inadvertence a rule of origin has not been provided, the Member 
concerned shall provide it immediately after this fact becomes known.  Lists of information received 
and available within the Secretariat shall be ci rculated to the Members by the Secretariat. 
2. Previous notifications received are listed in th e G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have 
been received as follows: 
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 
(Notification in English) 
 At the date of entry into force of the WT O Agreement for the Russian Federation, the non-
preferential rules of origin are applied at the leve l of the Customs Union of the Republic of Belarus, 
the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federati on as provided for by the following international 
treaty which the Russian Federation is a contracting party to: 
- The Agreement on Common Rules for Determining of the Country of Origin of Goods, of 
25 January 2008. 
 The rules of general application on some aspects of customs procedures in respect of the rules 
of origin are also set forth by the following documents1: 
1. Articles 109-111 of the Federal Law No . 164-FZ of 8 December 2003 "On Customs 
Regulation in the Russian Federation"; and 
2. Chapter 7 of the Customs Union Customs Code. 
B. PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
1. Paragraph 4 of Annex II to the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that Members shall 
provide to the Secretariat promptly their preferential rules of origin, including a listing of the preferential arrangements to which they apply, judicial decisions, and administrative rulings of general application relating to their preferential rules of origin in eff ect on the date of entry into force 
of the WTO Agreement for the Member concerned.  Members shall provide any modifications to their 
preferential rules of origin or new preferential rule s of origin as soon as possibl e to the Secretariat.  
                                                      
1 Both texts are available with the Se cretariat for consultation by Members. G/RO/N/84 
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  Lists of information received and available within th e Secretariat shall be circulated to Members by 
the Secretariat. 
2. Previous notifications received are listed in the G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have 
been received as follows: 
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 
(Notification in English) 
 The preferential rules of origin applied eith er at the level of the Customs Union of the 
Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhs tan and the Russian Federation or by the 
Russian Federation based on its bilateral agreem ents are set out in the following documents
2: 
1. Agreement on Rules for Determining of Origin of Goods from  Developing and Least 
Developed Countries, of 12 December 2008:  the rules, provided for by this Agreement, apply 
to the trade with developing and least-devel oped countries, to which the relevant tariff 
preferences are granted according to the List s of developing and least-developed countries, 
approved by the Decision of Interstate Counc il of the Eurasian Economic Community No. 18 
of 27 November 2009 and the Decision of the Customs Union Commission No. 130 of 
27 November 2009; 
2. Rules for Determination of the Country of Or igin of Goods, approved by the Decision of the 
Council of Heads of Governments of the Comm onwealth of Independent States "On the Rules 
for Determining the Country of Origin of G oods" of 24 September 1993 (as amended by the 
Decisions of the Heads of the CIS Govern ments of 15 April 1994 and 18 October 1996): 
these rules apply to trade with the Republic of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan; 
3. Agreement on the Rules for Determination of  the Country of Origin of Goods in the 
Commonwealth of Independent States of 20 Nove mber 2009 (as amended by the Protocol of 
18 October 2011):  these rules apply to trade with  the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of 
Armenia, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Re public of Moldova, the Republic of Tajikistan 
and Ukraine; and 
4. Rules for Determining of the Country of Origin of Goods, provided for by the Protocol 
between the Government of the Russian Federa tion and the Government of the Republic of 
Serbia on Exemptions from the Free Trade Re gime and the Rules for Determining of the 
Country of Origin of Goods to the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Federal Government  of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 
Free Trade between the Russian Federation a nd the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, of 
28 August 2000:  these rules apply to trade of Ru ssian Federation with the Republic of Serbia. 
 There are currently no judicial decisions of gene ral application, related to the rules of origin, 
in force at the date of the WTO Agreement entry into force for the Russian Federation. 
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2 All the texts of the rules of origin, mentioned in th is notification, are availabl e with the Secretariat for 
consultation by Members.