G/RO/N/140  
 
11 April 2016  
(16-2029)  Page: 1/1  
Committee on Rules of Origin    
 
  NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 5 AND PARAGRAPH 4 OF 
ANNEX II TO THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN 
NON-PREFERENTIAL AND PREFER ENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN 
1. According to Article 5.1 of the Agreement on Ru les 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 inadvertence, 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 parties 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 Origin 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 application 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 Secretariat 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 
WTO database on preferential trade agreements ( http://ptadb.wto.org ). 
3. With reference to these rules, the following notification has been received: 
YEMEN (Notification in English) A. NON-PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN 
Yemen has no detailed rules of origin for non-preferential trade.  However, the origin of goods 
manufactured in more than one country is determin ed on the basis of the value added.  In that 
context, the Minister of Finance Resolution No . 356/1990 established the country of manufacture 
as the country of origin when the degree of manuf acturing of the value of labour and material 
inputs amounted to not less than 40% of the total cost of production. 
B. PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN 
Yemen is a Member of the Great Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA).  According to GAFTA, preferential 
treatment required a minimum of 40% of local value-added in the goods imported under this 
agreement as a general preferential rule. 
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