G/RO/N/99  
18 September 2013  
(13-4950)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Rules of Origin  Original: French  
 
  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  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 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 Secret ariat 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 regard ing 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: 
CAMEROON A.  NON-PREFERENTIA L RULES OF ORIGIN 
The Republic of Cameroon does not ap ply non-preferential rules of origin. 
 B.  PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN 
Cameroon implements the legal instruments relating to rules of origin in accordance with 
the provisions of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC). These instruments are: 
 
- Act No. 7/93-UDEAC-556-SE1
1 revising the common external tariff and establishing the 
procedure for applying the generalized preferen tial tariff, as amended by Act No. 556-CD-56 
of 19 December 1994: www.cemac.int; 
                                               
1 A copy of this law is available for consultation in the Secretariat. G/RO/N/99 
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  - Regulation No. 21/07-UEAC-1505 U-CM-162 of 18 December 2007 amending 
Article 10 of Act No. 1/98-UDEAC-1505-CD-61 of 28 July 1998: (http://www.cemac.int/TextesOfficiel s/Reglements/REG 21_2007.pdf). 
 
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2 A copy of this law is available for consultation in the Secretariat.