G/RO/N/164  
 
3 April 2018 
(18-2025) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Rules of Origin   
 
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER A RTICLE 5 AND PARAGRA PH 4 OF  
ANNEX II TO THE AGRE EMENT ON RULES OF OR IGIN  
NON-PREFERENTIAL AND PRE FERENTIAL RULES OF O RIGIN  
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 o f 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, m oreover, 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 ar ise 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 arra ngements 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 whi ch 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 reg ional 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 notificati on has been received:  
MONGOLIA  
(Notification in English ) 
A. NON-PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
Mongolia applies  non-preferential rules of origin  for imported goods as provided under 
Chapter 7 of the 2014 " Law of Mongolian on Customs Tariff s and Duties" . The law is 
available in the following Internet link:  
 http://www.customs.gov.mn/en/images/publishers/Customs_law_and_Customs_Tariff
_and_Tax_law.pdf . 
According to the requirements of the Law of Mongolia on Customs Tariffs and Duties as 
amended on 9 December 2016,  all products being imported into the Mongolian territory 
must be accompanied by a statement of origin , namely one of the following:  G/RO/N/164  
 
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  31.7. The  documentary evidence of origin of goods shall have the following types:  
31.7.1. a declaration of origin  of goods  which is a n invoice or bill of lading , having an 
information on goods origin stated by manufacturer, seller or exporter;  
31.7.2. a certified d eclaration of origin  of goods which is a declaration of origin 
certified by a competent authority of the relevant country;  and 
31.7.3. a certificate of origin of goods which is a certificate officially issued in a special 
form by a competent authority of t he relevant country  to certify the origin of goods.   
31.8. A list of goods requiring a certificate of origin shall be adopted by the Government.  
The amendments are available in the following Internet link  (in Mongolian only) : 
http://customs.gov.mn/2012 -03-14-03-12-51/2017 -12-12-03-51-09 
www.legalinfo.mn/law/details/208  
B. PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
Mongolia has started implementing, since 7 June 2016, preferential rules of origin in the 
context of the "Economic Partnership Agreement between Mongolia and Japan".  
The text of the Agreement, including the relevant provisions related to rules of or igin and 
origin certification can be found in the following Internet page:  
http://www.mfa.gov.mn/?page_id=16949&lang=en . 
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