Agreement between the European Free Trade Association States and the Kingdom of Morocco

The Agreement between the European Free Trade Association States and the Kingdom of Morocco entered into force in 1999. It provides for border tariff elimination for most industrial and energy products, including: 

• 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; 

Rule of origins delineated in the Agreement notably dictate the following conditions for products to benefit from preferential tariff treatment: 

• products have to be wholly obtained in one of the signatory countries, or in the European Economic Area (EEA), or
• products need to have undergone sufficient processing in one of the signatory countries
• for manufactured products, the value of non-originating materials should not exceed 10-50 % of the ex-works price of the final product

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