G/RO/N/42/Rev.1  
 
12 September  2016 
(16-4795) Page: 1/2 
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 PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
Revision  
1.1.  According to Article  5.1 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin, each Member shall provide to 
the Secretari at, within 90  days after the date of entry into force o f 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.  
1.2.  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 disc harge 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 CR O. 
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 p referential trade agreements ( http://ptadb.wto.org ). 
1.3.  With reference to these rules, the following notification has been received:  
GUYANA  
(Notification in English ) 
B. PREFERENTIAL RULES O F ORIGIN  
- Caricom (Caribbean Co mmunity and Common Market) intra -regional trade under the Revised 
Treaty of the Chaguaramas establishing the Caribbean Community and the Caricom Single 
Market and Economy.  
- Caricom/Colombia Trade, Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement.  
- Caricom/Cu ba Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement.  
- Guyana/Brazil Partial Scope Agreement.  
- Caricom/Venezuela Trade and Investment Agreement.  
- Caribbean/Canada Trade Agreement (Caribcan).  G/RO/N/42/Rev.1  
 
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  - Caribbean Basin Initiative between Caricom and the United States of A merica.  
- European Union/African, Caribbean and Pacifi c Countries Agreement (ACP -EU). 
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