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Article 3.32: Communication Language RCEP Joint Committee by consensus. The amendment shall enter into
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force in accordance with Article 20.4 (Amendments).
Communications between the importing Party and the exporting Party
shall be conducted in the English language.

Article 3.33: Contact Points

Each Party shall, within 30 days of the date of entry into force of this
Agreement for that Party, designate one or more contact points for the
implementation of this Chapter and notify the other Parties of the contact
details of that contact point or those contact points. Each Party shall
promptly notify the other Parties of any change to those contact details.

Article 3.34: Transposition of Product-Specific Rules

1. Prior to the entry into force of any amended version of the
Harmonized System, the Parties shall consult to prepare updates
to this Chapter and Annex 3A (Product-Specific Rules) that are
necessary to reflect changes to the Harmonized System.

2. The Parties shall ensure that the transposition of Annex 3A
(Product-Specific Rules) is carried out without impairing the
Product-Specific Rules and is completed in a timely manner.

3. The transposition of Annex 3A (Product-Specific Rules) that is in
the nomenclature of any revised Harmonized System following
periodic amendments to the Harmonized System, shall be
adopted by the RCEP Joint Committee, upon recommendation of
the Committee on Goods. The Parties shall promptly publish the
adopted transposition of Annex 3A (Product-Specific Rules) in the
nomenclature of the revised Harmonized System.

4. For the purposes of this Article, “transposition” means the
measures necessary to support the effective implementation of
the Product-Specific Rules set out in Annex 3A (Product-Specific
Rules), to reflect the periodic updates of the Harmonized System
nomenclature.

Article 3.35: Amendments to Annexes

Amendments relating only to Annex 3A (Product-Specific Rules) and 8
For Japan, for the purposes of this Article, “the completion of their respective
Annex 3B (Minimum Information Requirements) may be endorsed by the applicable legal procedures” referred to in Article 20.4 (Amendments) shall be read as
“the completion of internal procedures within the Government of Japan”.

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