WORLD TRADE WT/REG35/N/1
20February 1997
ORGANIZATION(97-0690)
Committee onRegional Trade Agreements Original: English
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND SLOVENIA
Communication from theParties totheAgreement
Thefollowing communication, dated 14February 1997, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Mission oftheRepublic ofSlovenia andthePermanent Mission ofLithuania withtherequest thatit
bedistributed toWTO Members.
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Thedelegations ofLithuania andSlovenia havethehonour toinform theMembers oftheWorld
Trade Organization thataFreeTrade Agreement between Lithuania andSlovenia wassigned on
4October 1996anditisexpected tocome intoforce, onaprovisional basis, by1March 1997. This
Agreement willbeapplied provisionally untilitisratified bybothParties totheAgreement.
TheAgreementcontainsprovisionsrelatingtotradeingoodsthatareofrelevancetotheMembers
oftheWorld Trade Organization.
TheAgreementprovidesfortheestablishmentofafree-tradeareabetweenLithuaniaandSlovenia
inthesense ofArticle XXIV oftheGATT 1994, which willbeestablished by1January 2001. At
thattimeduties andother restrictive regulations ofcommerce willhavebeeneliminated onsubstantially
alltrade between thesignatories.
Thetextoftheagreement willbesubmitted totheMembers inthenearfuture.