Article 45

1. The authorities of the OCTs may retain or introduce, in respect of imports of products originating in the Union, such customs duties or quantitative restrictions as they consider necessary in view of their respective development needs. 2. For the fields covered by this chapter, the OCTs shall grant to the Union a treatment no less favourable than the most favourable treatment applicable to any major trading economy as defined in paragraph 4. 3. Paragraph 2 shall not preclude an OCTs from granting certain other OCTs or other developing countries more favourable treatment than that accorded to the Union. 4. For the purposes of this Title, a ‘major trading economy’ means any developed country, or any country accounting for a share of world merchandise exports above one per cent, or, without prejudice to paragraph 3, any group of countries acting individually, collectively or through an economic integration agreement accounting collectively for a share of world merchandise exports above 1,5 %. For this calculation the latest available official data by the WTO on leading exporters in world merchandise trade (excluding intra-Union trade) shall be used. 5. The authorities of the OCTs shall communicate to the Commission by 2 April 2014, the customs tariffs and lists of quantitative restrictions which they apply in compliance with this Decision. The authorities of the OCTs shall also communicate to the Commission any subsequent amendments to such measures as and when they are adopted.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.