ARTICLE 2.2: NATIONAL TREATMENT
1. Each Party shall accord national treatment to the goods of the other Party in accordance
with Article III of GATT 1994, including its interpretive notes, and to this end Article III of
GATT 1994 and its interpretive notes are incorporated into and made part of this Agreement,
mutatis mutandis.
2. The treatment to be accorded by a Party under paragraph 1 means, with respect to a
regional level of government, treatment no less favorable than the most favorable treatment that
regional level of government accords to any like, directly competitive, or substitutable goods, as
the case may be, of the Party of which it forms a part.
3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the measures set out in Annex 2-A.