WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/REG131/N/1
21 January 2002
(02-0299)
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements Original:  English
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN
SLOVENIA AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Notification from the Republic of Slovenia
The following communication, dated 15 January 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the Republic of Slovenia with the request that it be circulated to the WTO Members.
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The delegation of the Republic of Slovenia has the honour to inform the Members of the
World Trade Organization that a Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of Slovenia and Bosnia
and Herzegovina, on the basis of Article XXIV of the GATT 1994, was signed on 3 October 2001 and
that it came into force on a provisional basis on 1 January 2002.  The Agreement will be appliedprovisionally until both Parties to the Agreement ratify it.
The Agreement contains provisions relating to trade in goods that are of relevance to
Members of the World Trade Organization.
The Agreement provides for the establishment of a free-trade area between the Republic of
Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on the basis of Article XXIV of the GATT 1994, which will beestablished by 1 January 2005.  At that time, duties and other restrictive regulations of commerce will
have been eliminated on substantially all the trade between the signatories of the Agreement.
The text of the Agreement will be submitted to the Members in due course.
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1 The text of the Agreement will be circulated as WT/REG131/1.