EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Agreement

The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between Albania and the European Union entered into force in December 2006. 

It covers most industrial products across HS sectors 25 through 97 including most energy products and its constituents as follows: 

• Electric motors, turbines and generators; 
• Mechanical equipment including pumps, appliances, and other advanced machinery; 
• Electric accumulators, transformers, capacitors, batteries; 
• Motor vehicles; 
• Mineral ore, slag and ash; 
• Mineral fuels, oils and other products; 
• Metals and their articles e.g. iron and steel; 
• Semiconductors devices and photovoltaic cells; 

Rules of origin restrict preferential tariff treatment to goods wholly obtained in one of the signatory countries, or underwent sufficient change in tariff classification such that the total value of all the manufacturing materials used does not exceed 10 - 50 % of the ex-works price of the product.

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