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TRIMS
Agreement on trade related investment matters
ANNEXURE - Illustrative list of prohibited
TRIMs
TRIMs that are inconsistent with the obligation of
national treatment provided for in paragraph 4 of
Article III of GATT 1994 include those which are
mandatory or enforceable under domestic law or under
administrative rulings, or compliance with which is
necessary to obtain an advantage, and which require :
- the purchase or use by an enterprise of products
of domestic origin or from any domestic source,
whether specified in terms of particular products,
in terms of volume or value of products, or in terms
of a proportion of volume or value of its local
production; or
- that an enterprise’s purchase or use of imported
products be limited to an amount related to the
volume or value of local products that it exports.
TRIMs that are inconsistent with the obligation of
general elimination of quantitative restrictions
provided for in paragraph 1 of Article XI of GATT 1994
include those which are mandatory or enforceable under
domestic law or under administrative rulings, or
compliance with which is necessary to obtain an
advantage, and which restrict :
- the importation by an enterprise of products used
in or related to its local production, generally or
to an amount related to the volume or value of local
production that it exports;
- the importation by an enterprise of products used
in or related to its local production by restricting
its access to foreign exchange to an amount related
to the foreign exchange inflows attributable to the
enterprise; or
- the exportation or sale for export by an
enterprise of products, whether specified in terms
of particular products, in terms of volume or value
of products, or in terms of a proportion of volume
or value of its local production.
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