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11 April 2024 
(24-3063) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Rules of Origin  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 4 OF ANNEX II  
OF THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN  
PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
1. Paragraph 4 of Annex II to the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that Members shall 
provide to the Secretariat as soon as possible their existing or new preferential rules of origin, 
including a listing of the preferential arrangements to which they a pply, judicial decisions, and 
administrative rulings of general application relating to their preferential rules of origin. Lists of 
information received and available within the Secretariat shall be circulated to Members by the 
Secretariat under the G/RO/N/  series.  
2. The Committee on Rules of Origin further agreed that, with respect to preferential rules of 
origin, notifications made to the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) or to the 
Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) could also suffice to discharge t heir notification 
obligations under the Agreement on Rules of Origin ( G/RO/M/59 ). As a result, the Committee agreed 
that notifications which had initially been received by the CRTA or the CTD should also be circulated 
by the Secretariat to the CRO. The informa tion regarding such notifications, including related to 
preferential rules of origin, can, in addition, be retrieved through the WTO database of regional trade 
agreements ( http://rtais.wto.org ) or in the WTO database of preferential trade agreements 
(http://ptadb.wto.org ). 
3. Accordingly, the following notification has been received : 
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN KAZAKHST AN AND AZERBAIJAN1 
 
A.  PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
The text of the Agreement can be found in the following link:  
On ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the 
Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan on free trade - "Adilet" LIS (zan.kz) . 
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1 Originally notified to the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) and circulated in document  
WT/REG4 81/N/1 of 28 March  2024. 