RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE WT/REG7/N/1
30June1995
ORGANIZATION(95-1804)
Original: English
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN
LATVIA AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Communication from theEuropean Communities
TheEuropean Communities havethehonour toinform themembers oftheWTO andthe
Contracting Parties toGATT 1947 thataFreeTrade Agreement between Latvia andtheEuropean
Communities came intoforce on1January 1995.1
TheFreeTrade Agreement contains provisions relating totradeingoods thatareofrelevance
themembers oftheWTO andother signatories oftheFinal Act.
Theobjective oftheFreeTrade Agreement istogradually establish afree-trade areabetween
theEuropean Communities andLatvia inthesense ofArticle XXIV oftheGATT 1994. Thisfree-trade
areawillbeestablished overamaximum period offouryears attheendofwhich duties andother
restrictive regulations ofcommerce willhavebeeneliminated onsubstantially alltrade between the
signatories.
1ThetextoftheAgreement iscirculated indocument WT/REG7/1.