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HANDBOOK ON ACCESSION TO THE WTO: CHAPTER 4

The accession process — the procedures and how they have been applied

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4.8 Invocation of Article XIII of the WTO

Article XIII of the WTO Agreement provides that the WTO Agreement and the Multilateral Trade Agreements annexed to it “shall not apply as between any Member and any other Member if either of the Members, at the time either becomes a Member, does not consent to such application” if they notify the General Council/Ministerial Conference before its approval of the agreement on the terms of accession.

Article XIII has been invoked eight times. Five invocations have been withdrawn⁹⁹ and only three are still maintained.¹⁰⁰

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99. United States vis-à-vis Mongolia, WTO document WT/L/306; Kyrgyz Republic, WTO document WT/L/363; Georgia, WTO document WT/L/385; Armenia, WTO document WT/L/601 and Corr 1; and Viet Nam, WTO document WT/L/679. back to text
100. United States vis-à-vis Moldova, WTO document WT/L/395; El Salvador vis-à-vis China, WTO document WT/L/429; and Turkey vis-à-vis Armenia, WTO document WT/L/501. back to text

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