. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/RO/N/70 
16 June 2011  
 
(11-2989) 
Committee on Rules of Origin  
  
 
NOTIFICATIONS UNDER ARTICLE 5 AND PARAGRAPH 4 OF ANNEX II 
TO THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN 
 
Preferential Rules of Origin 
 
 
A. NON-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 rulings  of general application relating to rules of origin 
in effect on that date.  If by inadvertence a ru le 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.  A further notification has 
been received as follows:
1 
TOGO 
(Notification in French)  
As Togo is a member of the WAEMU customs union, it also uses the WAEMU rules of 
origin (which came into effect on 1 January  2003) for non-preferential treatment purposes. 
 B. P
REFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
1. Paragraph 4 of Annex II to the Agreement on Ru les 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.  
                                                      
1 Notifications are available for consultation in the Secretariat (Market Access Division). G/RO/N/70 
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  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 th e G/RO/N/- series.  A further notification has 
been received as follows: 
TOGO 
(Notification in French) 
 
Under the WAEMU rules of origin, which came into effect on 1 January 2003 and have been 
incorporated in full by ECOWAS, products origin ating in WAEMU/ECOWAS are products that are 
wholly obtained or that have undergone sufficient working or processing in a member State (with the 
exception of products manufactured in free zones or under suspensive customs procedures).  Local 
unprocessed products and traditional handicrafts, as we ll as products of which at least 60 per cent of 
the raw material inputs comes from WAEMU/ECOW AS, are also regarded as originating in 
WAEMU/ECOWAS.  
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