WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/RO/N/77 
12 March 2012 
 (12-1361) 
Committee on Rules of Origin Original: Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 5 OF AND PARAGRAPH 4 OF 
ANNEX II TO 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. Article 5.2 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin provides 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, which, fo r the purpose of the Article,  shall include any rule 
of origin referred to in paragraph 1 and not provided  to the Secretariat, 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 ci rcumstances arise or threaten to arise for a 
Member.  In these exceptional cases, the Member sh all publish the modified or new rule as soon as 
possible. 
3. Previous notifications received are listed in th e G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have 
been received as follows:1 
PERU 
(Notification in Spanish) 
  Non-preferential rules of origin are contained in the following:  
 Ministry of Foreign Trade and Touris m Supreme Decree No. 005-2011-MINCETUR, 
"Supreme Decree establishing the regulatory framework for the declaration and control of the origin of goods s ubject to trade defence measures". 
   It should be noted that Article 3 of  the above Supreme D ecree repeals Supreme 
Decree No. 021-98-ITINCI on non-preferential rules of origin (see document 
G/RO/N/5), as well as Ministerial Resolution No. 093-2007-MINCETUR/DM and 
Ministerial Resolution No. 058-2008-MINCETUR/DM. 
                                                      
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  B. P
REFERENTIAL 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.  
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:
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PERU 
(Notification in Spanish)  
(a) New preferential rules of origin: 
 
 Chapters III and IV (and Annexes) of th e Trade Promotion Agreement between the 
United States of America and the Republic of Peru (in force as of 1 February 2009); 
http://www.tlcperu-eeuu.gob.pe/index.p hp?ncategoria1=209& ncategoria2=215 
 Chapter IV (and Annexes) of the Free Trade Agreement between Singapore and the 
Republic of Peru (in force as of 1 August 2009); 
http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/ne wweb/Default.aspx?tabid=3059 
 Chapter III (and Annex) of the Free Trad e Agreement between Canada and the 
Republic of Peru (in force as of 1 August 2009); 
https://www.mincetur. gov.pe/newweb/Portals/0/comercio/tlc _canada/cierre_negociacion.html 
 Chapter III (and Annexes) of the Free Trade Agreement between the People's 
Republic of China and the Republic of Peru (in force as of 1 March 2010); 
http://www.mincetur.gov.pe/newweb/Portals/ 0/comercio/tlc_china/texto_acuerdo.html 
 Article 2.3 of and Annex V to the Free Tr ade Agreement between the European Free 
Trade Association and the Republic of Peru , and Article 4 of the Peru-Switzerland 
Bilateral Agreement on Agriculture (in for ce for Peru, Switzerland and Liechtenstein 
as of 1 July 2011); 
http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/newweb/Port als/0/comercio/tlc_efta/index.html 
(b) Administrative rulings on preferential rules of origin: 
 
 Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tour ism Supreme Decree No. 001-2009-MINCETUR 
approving the "Regulation on the procedure fo r the verification of textile and apparel 
goods, established pursuant to the United St ates-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement"; 
 
                                                      
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   Ministry of Foreign Trade and Touris m Supreme Decree No. 003-2009-MINCETUR, 
as amended by Supreme Decree No. 016-2010-MINCETUR, approving the "Regulation implementing the rules of origin regime established in the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement"; 
 
 Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tour ism Supreme Decree No. 004-2009-MINCETUR 
approving the "Regulation on the procedure for the verification of the origin of goods"; 
 
 Ministry of Foreign Trade and Touris m Supreme Decree No. 036-2005-MINCETUR, 
as amended by Supreme Decree No. 005-2009-MINCETUR, approving the "Regulations implementing Law No. 284 12 authorizing MINCETUR to sanction 
importers, exporters and producers that infri nge origin certification rules under trade 
agreements and preferential regimes"; 
 
 Ministry of Foreign Trade and Touris m Supreme Decree No. 001-2011-MINCETUR, 
"Single Harmonized Text of the Regulation on advance rulings concerning the origin 
and marking of goods". 
 
3. The Permanent Mission of Peru would be gr ateful if the above information could be 
circulated to all WTO Members, pursuant to Ar ticle 5 of and paragra ph 4 of Annex II to the 
Agreement on Rules of Origin.  
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