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ATA Carnet
Main pages of a paper ATA Carnet
TypeInternational customs document
First issued30 July 1963
PurposeTax-free and duty-free temporary admission of nonperishable goods into multiple countries
Valid inOver 80 countries and customs territories
Expiration1 year after issuance (max)

The ATA Carnet, often referred to as the "Passport for goods", is an international customs document that allows the temporary admission of non-perishable goods without payment of import duties and taxes, generally for up to one year. It simplifies customs procedures by combining the customs declaration and financial guarantee into a single document that can be used for multiple border crossings. The acronym ATA is a combination of French and English terms "Admission Temporaire/Temporary Admission".

The ATA Carnet is jointly administered by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) through its World Chambers Federation.[1][2]

History

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Background

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Early suggestions for an international temporary admission scheme were made during the 1900 and 1913 Congresses on Customs regulations, examined by Customs experts convened in 1923 under the auspices of the League of Nations, but no positive result was achieved.[3] In 1932 the League of Nations drafted a convention to promote uniform duty-free admission for samples, but it was never implemented owing to WWII.[4][5]

In 1952, building on the ICC's 1949 report "Invisible Barriers to Trade and Travel",[6] the contracting parties to GATT adopted an International Convention to Facilitate the Importation of Commercial Samples and Advertising Material, proposed and drafted by the ICC.[7][8][9][10][11] The convention, based on a draft the League of Nations had developed in 1935, came into effect in November 1955.

The Austria–Switzerland triptyque

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During the meetings of the Sixth Session Working Party that prepared the convention's text, the French delegation proposed considering a system of triptyques or carnets for samples carried by commercial travellers, to alleviate the financial and administrative burdens on firms sending representatives abroad.[12] The Working Party was told that such a scheme had already been worked out, on a bilateral basis, between Austria and Switzerland, though it had not yet been put into force. On 1 March 1954 the Austrian Government informed the Executive Secretary of GATT that the scheme had been put into effect by the two countries' Customs Administrations on 1 February 1954: commercial travellers and agents could import samples between Switzerland and Austria temporarily duty-free under a customs triptyque, without depositing import duties, guaranteed by an Austrian insurance company on the Austrian side and a Swiss company on the Swiss side. The scheme was capped at 60,000 Austrian schillings or 10,000 Swiss Francs per collection of samples, with one year allowed for re-exportation.[13][14]

The ECS Carnet

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ECS Convention
Customs Convention Regarding E.C.S. Carnets for Commercial Samples
Signed1 March 1956 (1956-03-01)
LocationBrussels, Belgium
Effective3 October 1957
Original
signatories
Original signatories (1956)
Parties
Sole remaining contracting party
DepositaryBelgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
CitationsUnited Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 343, p. 130, No. 4923
Languages
Registered with the United Nations by the United Kingdom on 12 October 1959. Effectively superseded by the ATA Convention (1961). At its 47th/48th Sessions (June 1976) the Customs Co-operation Council recommended that Contracting Parties denounce the Convention as duplicative of the ATA Convention; 21 instruments of denunciation were subsequently deposited, leaving Haiti as the sole remaining contracting party as of the WCO's most recent status list.

Building on this convention and the Austria–Switzerland triptyque — and reportedly following an initiative of Charles Aubert, director of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Geneva and future first director of the Chambres de Commerce Suisses[15][citation needed] — the Customs Co-operation Council, with the International League of Commercial Travellers and Agents and the ICC's International Information Bureau of Chambers of Commerce, prepared the Customs Convention Regarding the E.C.S. Carnets for Commercial Samples, which entered into force on 3 October 1957.[16][17][18] The new convention introduced the E.C.S. Carnet — the initials standing for the bilingual Echantillons Commerciaux/Commercial Samples — an optional substitute for national temporary importation papers that replaced any deposit or guarantee Customs authorities might otherwise require. Its first signatories were West Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey, with the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs acting as depositary.[19]

The international guarantee mechanism behind the ECS Carnet was organised by the International Bureau of Chambers of Commerce (BIICC), a department of the ICC, under BIICC Protocol Document 550/52 of 2 November 1955. This established a chain of national guaranteeing organisations — one per territory, each recognised by its own Customs authority — under which a guarantee was automatically substituted from one country's organisation to the next as goods crossed a border, with a reimbursement procedure between organisations where a claim arose.[a]

By 1960 the ECS Carnet's success was clear enough that the Customs Co-operation Council told the GATT Executive Secretary that the "satisfactory results obtained" — 15,600 carnets issued that year, worth a combined US$16,320,000 — had "induced the international trading community to propose that the facilities offered by the ECS Carnet Convention should be extended over the widest possible field", an idea the ICC supported.[20][21]

The ATA Convention

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ATA Convention
Customs Convention on the A.T.A. Carnet for the Temporary Admission of Goods
Signed6 December 1961 (1961-12-06)
LocationBrussels, Belgium
Effective30 July 1963
Parties
List of contracting parties
DepositaryCustoms Cooperation Council
Languages

A preliminary enquiry into the usefulness of a temporary duty-free admission document, carried out by the Customs Cooperation Council with GATT, UNESCO and the ICC, found general support for a document on the lines of the ECS carnet that could also cover professional equipment and goods for exhibitions and fairs. Since conventions on those two subjects were already being prepared separately, it was thought desirable for the new carnet convention to be ready alongside them, or as soon as possible afterward.[21] Accordingly, building on the ECS Carnet's success, the Customs Co-operation Council adopted the Customs Convention on the ATA Carnet for the Temporary Admission of Goods in 1961; it entered into force on 30 July 1963.[22][23][24] ATA Carnets are regarded as an upgraded version of ECS Carnets, extending the same mechanism beyond commercial samples.[15] More specific conventions were subsequently worked out for each type of applicable good. At its 47th/48th Sessions in June 1976, the Council recommended that Contracting Parties to the ECS Convention denounce it as duplicating the ATA Convention; 21 countries have since deposited instruments of denunciation, leaving Haiti as the sole remaining Contracting Party.[25]

"The States signatory to this Convention, convinced that the adoption of common procedures for the temporary duty-free importation of goods would afford considerable advantages to international commercial and cultural activities and would secure a higher degree of harmony and uniformity in the customs system of the Contracting Parties." – (Preamble of the A.T.A. Convention)[22]

Alongside the Convention itself, the BIICC organised the corresponding international guarantee chain for ATA Carnets through two companion instruments. The Protocol on the organisation of an international customs deposits in respect of ATA Carnets (Document 550/212), adopted on 22 January 1962, established the reciprocal guarantee mechanism between national chamber organisations: once approved by its own Customs authority, each could guarantee duties on goods sent by its nationals to a country with another signatory organisation, with the destination organisation's guarantee automatically substituted for that of the country of origin as goods crossed each border.[26] The companion Statement on the ATA System (Document 550/521), first adopted on 16 March 1980, sets out the chain's terms in more detail — defining the issuing chamber of commerce, the national guaranteeing organisation and the WCF international guaranteeing organisation — and requires beneficiaries to undertake to re-export goods within the time limit, reimburse any sums paid on their behalf, and provide security (an insurance indemnity, bank guarantee or cash deposit) before a Carnet is issued, covering the highest possible import duties plus 10 per cent.[27] Both instruments were revised on 13 September 1988 and again on 7 March 1997, the latter revision reflecting the renaming of the BIICC to the World Chambers Federation (WCF) and of the working party "ATA System" to the World ATA Carnet Council (WATAC).[28][29]

The Istanbul Convention

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Istanbul Convention
Convention on Temporary Admission
Signed26 June 1990 (1990-06-26)
LocationIstanbul, Turkey
Effective27 November 1993
Parties
List of contracting parties
DepositaryWorld Customs Organization
Languages

Between 1950 and 1970 there was a proliferation of international Conventions, Recommendations, Agreements and other instruments on temporary admission, creating confusion for the international business community and complicating the work of Customs. In the early 1990s the WCO drafted a worldwide Convention on temporary admission to combine 13 existing temporary admission agreements into a single international instrument, namely:

  1. Customs Convention on the ATA carnet for the temporary admission of goods (ATA Convention), Brussels, 6 December 1961
  2. Customs Convention concerning facilities for the importation of goods for display or use at exhibitions, fairs, meetings or similar events, Brussels, 8 June 1961
  3. Customs Convention on the temporary importation of professional equipment, Brussels, 8 June 1961
  4. European Convention on Customs treatment of pallets used in international transport, Geneva, 9 December 1960[30]
  5. Customs Convention on the temporary importation of packings, Brussels, 6 October 1960
  6. Articles 2 to 11 and Annexes 1 (paragraphs 1 and 2) to 3 to the Customs Convention on Containers, Geneva, 2 December 1972
  7. Articles 3, 5 and 6 (1.b and 2) of the International Convention to facilitate the importation of commercial samples and advertising material, Geneva, 7 November 1952[31]
  8. Customs Convention on welfare material for seafarers, Brussels, 1 December 1964
  9. Customs Convention on the temporary importation of scientific equipment, Brussels, 11 June 1968
  10. Customs Convention on the temporary importation of pedagogic material, Brussels, 8 June 1970
  11. Articles 2 and 5 of the Convention concerning Customs facilities for touring, New York, 4 June 1954[32]
  12. Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs facilities for touring, relating to the importation of tourist publicity documents and material, New York, 4 June 1954[33]
  13. Customs Convention on the temporary importation of private road vehicles, New York, 4 June 1954[34]
  14. Customs Convention on the temporary importation of commercial road vehicles, Geneva, 18 May 1956[35]
  15. Customs Convention on the temporary importation for private use of aircraft and pleasure boats, Geneva, 18 May 1956[36]

The Convention on Temporary Admission — the Istanbul Convention — was adopted by the WCO on 26 June 1990 and entered into force on 27 November 1993.[37][1][38] Its objectives and principles are:

  • To devise a single instrument for the simplification and harmonization of temporary admission formalities, replacing all the existing Conventions or Recommendations dealing solely or principally with temporary admission. The subjects covered by the former Conventions are now covered by the Annexes to the Istanbul Convention.
  • Each Annex authorizes the temporary admission of goods imported for a specific purpose — for example, Annex B.1 covers goods for display or use at fairs or exhibitions. This avoids the need for any future instrument on temporary admission by creating a framework into which new categories of goods needing temporary admission facilities can be incorporated.
  • Goods imported duty-free cannot remain indefinitely in the country of temporary importation. The period fixed for re-exportation is laid down in each Annex.
  • The goods must be re-exported in the same state, without undergoing any change during their stay other than normal depreciation due to use.
  • Economic prohibitions or restrictions at importation are not applied, since they generally relate to goods cleared for home use and serve as a national protection measure.
List of Annexes of the Istanbul Convention
Annex AAnnex concerning temporary admission papers (ATA Carnets and CPD Carnets)
Annex B.1Annex concerning goods for display or use at exhibitions, fairs, meetings or similar events
Annex B.2Annex concerning professional equipment
Annex B.3Annex concerning containers, pallets, packagings, samples and other goods imported in connection with a commercial operation
Annex B.4Annex concerning goods imported in connection with a manufacturing operation
Annex B.5Annex concerning goods imported for educational, scientific or cultural purposes
Annex B.6Annex concerning travellers' personal effects and goods imported for sports purposes
Annex B.7Annex concerning tourist publicity material
Annex B.8Annex concerning goods imported as frontier traffic
Annex B.9Annex concerning goods imported for humanitarian purposes
Annex CAnnex concerning means of transport
Annex DAnnex concerning animals
Annex EAnnex concerning goods imported with partial relief from import duties and taxes
Carnets issuedYear60K90K120K150K180K210K240K1995200020052010201520202025Carnets issuedATA and CPD/China–Taiwan Carnets issued wor...Including original and replacement carnets where applicable
Annual number of ATA and CPD/China–Taiwan Carnets issued worldwide, including original and replacement carnets where applicable. The decline observed in the early 2000s coincided with the 2004 and 2007 EU enlargements, which eliminated many former external borders where carnets had previously been required. Following the sharp decline caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, issuance recovered and subsequently exceeded pre-pandemic levels, reaching record highs by 2025, partly reflecting the reintroduction of carnet requirements for many movements between the United Kingdom and the European Union after Brexit. Source: ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF) / World ATA Carnet Council (WATAC) annual survey data. View source data.
Value of goods (US$ billion)Year1015202530352007201020132016201920222025Value of goods (US$ billion)ATA and CPD/China–Taiwan Carnets value of g...
Annual total value of goods covered by ATA and CPD/China–Taiwan Carnets worldwide, expressed in billions of US dollars. The series reflects changes in international trade activity, including the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, the sharp decline caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and the subsequent recovery. By 2025, the value of goods covered under carnets had reached a record high of more than US$33 billion. Source: ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF) / World ATA Carnet Council (WATAC) annual survey data. View source data.

The digital ATA Carnet

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The eATA Carnet project digitalises the international ATA Carnet system, managing its entire lifecycle — issuance, declarations, transactions and claims — electronically and in real time. Developed by the ICC starting in 2016,[39][40] the system is legally enabled by amendments to Article 4 of the ATA Convention and Article 21a of the Istanbul Convention, permitting electronic data-processing techniques.

A pilot phase ran from 2019 until June 2023, including the first digital transaction on 20 October 2019 at Zurich Airport, Switzerland.[41] The system then entered a global transition phase in July 2023, built around the central ATA Carnet Core database and supported by user-facing tools — the ATA Carnet app (a secure digital wallet for holders and representatives) and ATA Carnet Customs (for Customs officers) — enabling paper-free declarations, QR code transactions and virtual voucher reconciliation.

On 1 June 2026, Customs administrations in the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the United Kingdom officially began recognising digital carnets as legally valid; other administrations are expected to adopt the system by the end of 2027.[42][43] Within the first month following the launch of the system, nearly 24,000 border transactions had been completed using digital carnets across the European Union, the United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland.[44]

EventDateTime (UTC)LocationCountry
First validation1 June 202608:38Basel/Weil am Rhein-Autobahn Customs Office  Switzerland
First exportation1 June 202609:23Bristol Airport United Kingdom
First importation1 June 202610:36Weil am Rhein-Autobahn Customs Office Germany
First re-exportation3 June 202615:46St Pancras International United Kingdom
First re-importation3 June 202608:39Zollamt Schweinfurt – Londonstraße Germany
First transit open3 June 202609:28Zollstelle Lustenau Austria
First transit close4 June 202610:06Göteborg Sweden
  1. ↑ Protocol 550/52 itself has not been located in digitised form; its content is inferred from references in chamber adhesion files and from the structurally similar successor instruments described below.

Administration

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In every country participating in the ATA Chain, a National Guaranteeing Association (NGA) – approved by its customs administration and the ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF) – administers the operation of the ATA Carnet system. Each participating country or customs territory has a single NGA responsible for guaranteeing to its customs administration the payment of import duties and taxes due in cases of non-compliance with temporary admission procedures. Under the ATA system, NGA liability may reach up to 110% of the applicable duties and taxes. With the prior consent of its customs administration, an NGA may authorise local chambers or other associations to issue ATA Carnets on its behalf.[45]

The ATA Carnet system operates through cooperation between customs authorities and the network of NGAs forming the international ATA guarantee chain. While the ATA Convention and Istanbul Convention establish the legal framework for temporary admission, the financial and administrative relationships between NGAs are governed by separate ATA Chain instruments administered by the ICC World Chambers Federation.[45]

Within the ICC World Chambers Federation, the World ATA Carnet Council (WATAC) brings together NGAs from all countries and customs territories participating in the ATA Chain and serves as a forum for coordinating the operation, integrity and expansion of the system.[2][45]

In short:

  • Holders can use ATA Carnets as Customs declarations and guarantee
  • National Customs authorities through which the goods are admitted into are allowed to claim Customs duties and taxes against NGAs within one year after the expiration of ATA Carnets
  • National Guaranteeing Associations act as a chain to guarantee Customs duties/taxes plus 10% penalty
  • The World Customs Organization (WCO) monitors the international Conventions that govern the ATA system.
  • The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), through its World Chambers Federation (WCF), administers the ATA Chain and its internal procedures.

Member countries of the ATA Carnet guarantee scheme

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Countries and customs territories covered by the ICC ATA Carnet international guarantee chain

Updated 2 June 2026

In the early 1960s, the ATA Carnet was in use in Ivory Coast, France, Yugoslavia, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia. By 1982, the system had expanded to 36 countries.

Today, the ATA Carnet guarantee scheme is in force in over 80 countries and customs territories through a network of national guaranteeing associations forming the international ATA guaranteeing chain.[46]

The system is valid across the European Union, which operates as a single customs territory, as well as in the following countries and territories: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Australia, Bahrain, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Lebanon, Macao, North Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam.

Brazil was a member country from 2016 until 31 December 2021, when its national guaranteeing association stepped down and no replacement was appointed.

Participation in the ATA Carnet system is operationally defined by the existence of a national guaranteeing association within the international ATA guaranteeing chain. In certain cases, coverage extends beyond the listed country to associated territories or customs arrangements administered by that guaranteeing association.

List of National Guaranteeing Associations

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The following is a list of National Guaranteeing Associations members of the ICC ATA Guarantee Chain and their covered territories.

National Guaranteeing Association Territories covered NGA operational
start date		 Website
Alliance des Chambres de Commerce Suisses  Switzerland Liechtenstein[a] 1963-07-01 www.ataswiss.ch
Association of Lithuanian Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Crafts Lithuania 2000-08-21 www.chambers.lt
Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry Greece 1976-07-01 www.acci.gr
Austrian Federal Economic Chamber Austria Unconfirmed[b] www.wko.at
Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry Bahrain 2014-06-01[47] www.bahrainchamber.bh
Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BelCCI) Belarus 2004-08-15 www.cci.by
Board of Trade of Thailand Thailand 1995-02-01 www.thaichamber.org
Canadian Chamber of Commerce Canada 1972-11-01 www.chamber.ca
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania Romania 1967-06-08[c][d] www.ccir.ro
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia Serbia 2004-11-01 www.pks.rs
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia Slovenia 1993-05-01 www.gzs.si
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Moldova Moldova 2010-07-01[48] chamber.md
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation Russia 2000-05-15 www.tpprf.ru
Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Beirut and Mount Lebanon Lebanon 1996-01-15 www.ccib.org.lb
Chamber of Commerce, d'Industrie et de Services Casablanca–Settat Morocco 1998-07-01[49][e] www.cciscs.ma
Chamber of Economy of Montenegro Montenegro 2008-12-01[50][f] www.privrednakomora.me
Chamber of International Commerce of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 2017-04-01[51] kazcic.kz
Chambre algérienne de Commerce et d'Industrie Algeria 1991-01-15 www.caci.dz
Chambre de Commerce d'Industrie et d'Agriculture de Dakar (CCIAD) Senegal 1978-07-25 www.cciad.sn
Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Côte d'Ivoire Ivory Coast 1963-07-01[g] www.cci.ci
Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Tunis Tunisia 1998-06-01 www.ccitunis.org.tn
Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de région Paris Île-de-France France[h] Monaco[i] 1965-01-01[j] www.entreprises.cci-paris-idf.fr
Chambre de Commerce, d'Industrie et de Services d'Andorre Andorra 1998-12-02 www.ccis.ad
China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) China 1998-03-01[52] www.eatachina.com
Croatian Chamber of Economy Croatia 1996-11-01 www.hgk.hr
Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry Cyprus 1977-01-25 www.ccci.org.cy
Cámara Oficial de Comercio, Industria, Servicios y Navegación de España Spain[k] 1964-12-15 www.camara.es
Câmara de Comércio e Industria Portuguesa Portugal 1966-07-20 www.ccip.pt
Danish Chamber of Commerce Denmark[l] 1965-01-01[m] www.danskerhverv.dk
Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer (DIHK) Germany 1962-10-24[n][d] www.dihk.de
Dubai Chamber of Commerce United Arab Emirates 2011-04-01[53] www.dubaichamber.com
Dublin Chamber of Commerce Ireland 1965-07-17[o][d] www.dublinchamber.ie
Economic Chamber of North Macedonia North Macedonia 1998-07-01 www.mchamber.mk
Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic Czech Republic 1993-01-15 www.komora.cz
Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Estonia 1996-11-15 www.koda.ee
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) India 1990-08-15 www.atacarnet.in
Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce Israel 1966-11-25 www.chamber.org.il
Foreign Trade Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011-04-18[54] www.komorabih.ba
Fédération des Chambres de Commerce belges (Belgian Chambers) Belgium Luxembourg[p] 1966-12-01[q] www.belgianchambers.be
Fédération des Chambres de Commerce et d'Industrie de Madagascar Madagascar 2013-04-22[55] www.federationccimada.org
Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce Gibraltar ≤ 1969[56][r]
Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hungary 1967-02-15 www.mkik.hu
ICC Pakistan Pakistan 2007-10-01 www.iccpakistan.com.pk
ICC Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 1982-12-01 www.iccsrilanka.com
Iceland Chamber of Commerce Iceland 1971-03-08[s][d] www.chamber.is
Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN Indonesia) Indonesia 2015-05-15[57] www.kadin.id
Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines (ICCIM) Iran 1976-12-05[t] www.iccimtir.org
JCAA – Japan Commercial Arbitration Association Japan 1973-11-01 www.jcaa.or.jp
Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry South Korea 1979-04-01 cert.korcham.net
Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Latvia 2001-01-15 www.chamber.lv
Lima Chamber of Commerce Peru 2024-04-30[58] www.camaralima.org.pe
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry United Kingdom[u] 1963-07-19[v][d] uknataco.co.uk
Macao Chamber of Commerce Macau 2010-11-01[59] www.acm.org.mo
Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry Malaysia 1989-04-15 www.micci.com
Mexico City National Chamber of Commerce (CANACO) Mexico 2011-05-16[60] www.carnet-ata.org
Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Mongolia 2004-04-15 www.mongolchamber.mn
Oslo Chamber of Commerce Norway 1964-12-02[w][d] www.chamber.no
Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) Philippines 2024-07-15[61] www.philippinechamber.com
Polish Chamber of Commerce Poland 1971-02-01[x][d] www.kig.pl
Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry Qatar 2018-08-01[62] qatarchamber.com
Santiago Chamber of Commerce Chile 2005-10-01 www.ccs.cl
Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Singapore 1984-07-01 www.sicc.com.sg
Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry Slovakia 1993-01-15[y] www.sopk.sk
South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) South Africa Botswana Namibia Eswatini Lesotho[z] 1976-06-01 www.sacci.org.za
Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) Chinese Taipei[aa] 1992-03-01[ab] www.taiwantrade.com.tw
The Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Bulgaria 1964-11-01[ac][d] www.bcci.bg
The Federation of Saudi Chambers Saudi Arabia 2024-06-01[63] fsc.org.sa
The Finland Chamber of Commerce Finland 1964-11-02[ad] kauppakamari.fi
The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong, China 1974-08-01[ae] www.chamber.org.hk
The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry Malta 1989-03-15[af] www.maltachamber.org.mt
The Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry Mauritius 1982-11-08 www.mcci.org
The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce and Industry Netherlands 1964-01-17[ag][d] www.kvk.nl
The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Sweden 1964-06-20 www.stockholmshandelskammare.se
Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Ukraine 2008-03-04[64][ah][d] www.ata.ucci.org.ua
Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB) Turkey 1975-05-28[ai] www.tobb.org.tr
Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Albania (UCCIAL) Albania 2013-02-25[65] www.uccial.al
Unione Italiana delle Camere di Commercio (UNIONCAMERE) Italy 1964-03-20[aj] www.unioncamere.gov.it
United States Council for International Business (USCIB) United States[ak] 1969-06-30 www.uscib.org
Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Australia 1970-11-09[al][d] www.victorianchamber.com.au
Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vietnam 2022-05-01[66] atacarnet.covcci.com.vn
Wellington Chamber of Commerce New Zealand 1978-02-28 www.wecc.org.nz
Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI) Brazil (operations ceased 1 January 2022) 2016-06-28[67][am]
  1. ↑ The Istanbul Convention applies to Liechtenstein for as long as it is linked to Switzerland by a customs union treaty.
  2. ↑ Austria's operational start date remains unconfirmed. 20 May 1963 is the ATA Convention accession date; treaty entry into force was 21 August 1963. Affiliation documents were still being processed on 27 June 1963, when the Austrian National Committee submitted the Finance Ministry decree and the ECS/ATA Statement (with a reservation to Article 6(e)). Operations likely aligned with either the global ATA Convention entry into force (30 July 1963) or Switzerland's confirmed start (1 July 1963). ECS continuity is confirmed: Austria participated in the bilateral Austria–Switzerland commercial-samples triptyque from 1 February 1954, was among the first ECS Convention signatories (1957), and its 1963 Chamber correspondence explicitly states that the commitment previously required from ECS Carnet holders would also be required before issuing ATA Carnets. No separate BIICC "ATA System effective as from [date]" notice has been found.
  3. ↑ Ministry of Foreign Trade authorisation date; no ICC entry-into-force circular found. Chain formalities completed September 1967.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Date based on best available archival evidence; no formal ICC/IBCC "Implementation as of" circular found in the sources consulted. Treat as approximate.
  5. ↑ ICC article confirms "The ATA Carnet System for the duty and tax-free temporary admission of goods entered into force in Morocco in 1998." Specific date 1 July 1998 from internal ICC/IBCC archive.
  6. ↑ "Montenegro will become the 66th country to join the ATA Carnet System on 1 December 2008." ICC WCF newsroom, 2008.
  7. ↑ ECS continuity confirmed: the 1963 letter confirming the ATA start explicitly cites the 1952 Geneva Samples Convention (the ECS basis) and the 1961 Brussels Conventions, and Ivory Coast appeared in the unified ECS/ATA Systems statement in 1963, confirming prior operation within the international guarantee framework before ATA was operational. Suspended from IBCC/ATA chain 6 October 1995; re-integrated 15 January 1997.
  8. ↑ Includes mainland France, Monaco, Corsica, French off-shore islands, overseas departments (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion), overseas territories, and collectivités territoriales of Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Mayotte.
  9. ↑ Monaco is covered under the French NGA.
  10. ↑ Phased implementation. ATA Convention accession: 20 December 1962 (French NGA signed guarantee letter in 1962, accepting pilot carnets to ensure simultaneity with foreign partners). Commercial samples handled exclusively under ECS for French-issued documents during transition; incoming samples accepted under ATA or ECS. Customs instructions published 2 December 1964; French issuance for exhibitions/fairs/congresses/similar events began 1 January 1965. Date shown is start of French issuance.
  11. ↑ Includes Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla.
  12. ↑ Includes Faroe Islands; does not cover Greenland.
  13. ↑ Pre-ratification administrative start; Danish Ministry of Finance announced introduction from 1 January 1965, noting ratification would follow. WCO PG0233E1 formal deposit date: 14 April 1965.
  14. ↑ Earliest administrative authorisation date: Bundesminister der Finanzen letter of 24 October 1962 authorising Deutscher Industrie- und Handelstag as ATA issuing and guaranteeing association. No separate ICC/BIICC implementation circular found. Germany also signed the joint ECS/ATA Statement (BIICC Document 550/286), confirming prior operation under the ECS Carnet chain. WCO PG0233E1 formal ATA Convention accession date: 15 October 1965. Treat as date-type mismatch, not error.
  15. ↑ Approximate: 15 days after Dublin Chamber letter of 2 July 1965, per the Chamber's own formula.
  16. ↑ Luxembourg is covered under the Belgium–Luxembourg Economic Union (UEBL). Belgium deliberately delayed joining the ATA chain until Luxembourg had completed its formalities, so that the UEBL could operate as a single territory from 1 December 1966.
  17. ↑ Date of UEBL Customs acceptance of foreign ATA Carnets, per Belgian NGA (FCCIB) letter of 3 November 1966. Belgium waited for Luxembourg to complete formalities before joining as a single UEBL territory. Issuance of Belgian/Luxembourg ATA Carnets likely commenced in tandem; a separate issuance-start notice has not yet been found.
  18. ↑ UK territorial application of the ATA Convention to Gibraltar was registered by the UN Treaty Collection on 11 February 1969 (UN Treaty Series vol. 658, treaty no. 6864). The BIICC member-country list (Document 550-1/948) independently records Gibraltar with the year 1969, consistent with the UN registration date. The Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce had signed chain documentation in November 1963 but stated that operation awaited UK Government notification to the Customs Co-operation Council; this notification was not made until 1969. Date shown is the year of confirmed chain membership; exact date within 1969 not yet confirmed from archive.
  19. ↑ Date Professional Equipment and Exhibitions/Fairs Conventions entered into force for Iceland per CCC notification; Ministry recognised Iceland Chamber of Commerce as NGA on 2 March 1971.
  20. ↑ Original operational start. System interrupted post-1979 Islamic Revolution; reintroduced 15 November 2005 as the 63rd guaranteeing organisation.
  21. ↑ Includes Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey.
  22. ↑ Accession date per UK country sheet; no separate ICC entry-into-force notice found. Legal treaty entry-into-force may be 19 October 1963 under ATA Convention Article 21.
  23. ↑ Date of Norwegian Customs recognition of Oslo Chamber; legal ATA Convention entry into force for Norway: 30 July 1963.
  24. ↑ Requested BIICC chain affiliation date; national Ministerial Order authorisation had retroactive effect from 20 October 1969.
  25. ↑ State-succession/continuity: Slovak Republic continued applying former Czechoslovak ATA framework from 1 January 1993. WCO PG0233E1 formal accession date: 5 February 1993.
  26. ↑ SACCI acts as NGA for the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), covering Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Eswatini in addition to South Africa.
  27. ↑ Taiwan participates as "Chinese Taipei" through TAITRA under bilateral agreements; it is not a party to the Istanbul Convention or ATA Convention. See CPD/China-Taiwan Carnet.
  28. ↑ Separate bilateral CPD/China-Taiwan system, not the standard ATA guarantee chain. Security bond covers Carnets issued from 1 March 1992; IBCC formally accepted guarantee act 27 May 1992.
  29. ↑ National customs entry into force date; chain affiliation formalities completed April 1966.
  30. ↑ Finnish Board of Customs letter of 1 October 1964 states the ATA Convention "will come into force in Finland on 2.XI.1964" per statute 477/64. Central Chamber of Commerce of Finland signed the IBCC Protocol on 21 October 1964. Finland had signed the ECS/ATA Statement as early as 8 July 1963 as a declaration of intent. Current ATA Manual country page lists 1 August 1964 (accession date); confirmed operational date is 2 November 1964.
  31. ↑ Pre-1997 handover, operated under the United Kingdom's ATA Convention extension. Hong Kong later acceded to the Istanbul Convention as a separate customs territory with effect from 15 May 1995.
  32. ↑ Archive document heading states "as from 1 March 1989" but body text gives 15 March 1989; body text preferred.
  33. ↑ ATA Convention accession date; no separate ICC implementation circular found. Dutch Ministry of Finance had designated the NGA in June 1963. Per the WCO Istanbul Convention Handbook (2006 edition), the Netherlands' territorial application covers "The Kingdom of the Netherlands (The Kingdom in Europe and the Netherlands Antilles)", with the Curaçao Chamber of Commerce as issuing and guaranteeing association for the Netherlands Antilles. Following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, the current ATA chain status of Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Caribbean Netherlands has not been independently confirmed from ICC/WATAC sources.
  34. ↑ Based on ICC public announcement of 4 March 2008; formal implementation circular not yet found in archive.
  35. ↑ Corrects initially-announced date of 1 April 1975, which was suspended on 16 April 1975 pending completion of financial formalities. BIICC Document 550-1/393 confirmed 28 May 1975.
  36. ↑ Italian Ministry of Finance authorisation to issue from this date; WCO PG0233E1 formal accession/deposit date: 19 June 1964.
  37. ↑ Includes Puerto Rico.
  38. ↑ Start of insurance/indemnity coverage for Melbourne Chamber of Commerce ATA Carnet operations. 1969 referenced as organisational introduction phase.
  39. ↑ Brazil joined the ATA Carnet system on 28 June 2016 as the 75th guaranteeing organisation. CNI stepped down on 1 January 2022 and no replacement was appointed.
Sources: ICC World Chambers Federation; WCO Istanbul Convention Handbook (2006 edition) for territorial application details; ICC/IBCC/WATAC archive documents (iccwbo.sharepoint.com) for operational start dates. Georgia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jordan and Zimbabwe have treaty-accession dates but are not currently active members of the international guarantee chain and are not listed.

Field of application per country

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Contracting parties to the 1961 ATA Convention and/or the Istanbul Convention.

The ATA Carnet system rests on two parallel legal frameworks: a series of individual customs conventions concluded between 1952 and 1972 under the Customs Co-operation Council (now the World Customs Organization), and the Istanbul Convention on Temporary Admission of 1990, which consolidates these earlier instruments into a single treaty structured around a mandatory body of provisions and a series of optional annexes. A country acceding to the Istanbul Convention must accept Annex A, which governs temporary admission papers including the ATA Carnet, together with at least one other annex. Some countries remain bound only by the original 1961 ATA Convention without having ratified the Istanbul Convention; others have acceded to the Istanbul Convention without ever having been party to the 1961 instrument. The table below sets out, for each contracting party, its status under both frameworks.

Field of application per country
Contracting party ATA Convention (1961) Istanbul Convention
Annex A[a] Annex B.1[b] Annex B.2[c] Annex B.3[d] Annex B.4[e] Annex B.5[f] Annex B.6[g] Annex B.7[h] Annex B.8[i] Annex B.9[j] Annex C[k] Annex D[l] Annex E[m]
Albania NoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Algeria YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Andorra YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoYesNoNoNo
Armenia NoYesYesYesYesNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Australia YesYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Austria YesYesYesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Bahrain NoYesYes[b]NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Belarus YesYesYesYesYesNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Belgium YesYesYesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Bosnia and Herzegovina NoYes[a]YesYesYesYesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYesYesNo
Brazil NoYes[a]YesYesNoNoYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNo
Bulgaria YesYesYesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Canada YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Chile NoYesYes[b]YesYes[d]NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
China YesYes[a][n]YesYes[d]YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Ivory Coast YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Croatia YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]Yes[l]Yes[m]
Cuba YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Cyprus YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Czech Republic YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes
Denmark YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Egypt YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Estonia NoYes[a]YesYesYes[d]NoYes[f]YesNoNoYesYes[k]Yes[l]No
Finland YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
France YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Georgia NoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Germany YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Greece YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Hong Kong, China NoYes[a]YesYesNoNoNoYesYesNoNoYesNoNo
Hungary YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Iceland YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
India YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Indonesia NoYes[a]Yes[b]YesNoNoYes[f]YesNoNoYesYes[k]NoNo
Iran YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Ireland YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes
Israel YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Italy YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes
Japan YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Jordan NoYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Kazakhstan NoYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoNoNoYes[l]No
Kosovo NoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Kuwait NoYesYes[b]NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
South Korea YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Latvia NoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Lebanon YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Lesotho YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Lithuania NoYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes
Luxembourg YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
North Macedonia YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Madagascar NoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Malaysia YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Mali NoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Malta YesYes[a]Yes[b]YesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]Yes[l]Yes[m]
Mauritius YesYesYesYesNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Mexico YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Moldova YesYes[a]YesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoYesYes[k]YesYes
Mongolia NoYesYesYesNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Montenegro NoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Morocco YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Netherlands YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
New Zealand YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Niger YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Nigeria YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Norway YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Oman NoYesYes[b]NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Pakistan NoYesYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Peru NoYesYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Philippines NoYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesNoNoYesNoYes[l]No
Poland YesYesYesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Portugal YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Qatar NoYesYes[b]YesYes[d]NoYes[f]NoNoNoYesNoNoNo
Romania YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Russia YesYesYesYesYesNoYesNoNoNoNoNoYesNo
Saudi Arabia NoYesYes[b]YesYesNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Senegal YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Serbia YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Seychelles NoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes[i]YesYesYes[l]Yes[m]
Singapore YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Slovakia YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Slovenia YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
South Africa YesYesYes[b]NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Spain YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Sri Lanka YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Sweden YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
 Switzerland YesYesYesYesYes[d]NoYes[f]YesYesYesYesYesYesNo
Tajikistan NoYesYesYesYesNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Thailand YesYes[a]YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Trinidad and Tobago YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoNoYesNoNo
Tunisia YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Turkey YesYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Ukraine YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
United Arab Emirates NoYesYes[b]NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
United Kingdom Yes[o]Yes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
United States YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Uzbekistan NoYesYesYesYesNoYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNo
Vietnam NoYes[a]YesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Zimbabwe NoYesYes[b]YesYes[d]NoYes[f]YesNoNoYesNoNoNo
European Union NoYes[a]YesYesYes[d]YesYes[f]YesYesYesYesYes[k]YesYes[m]
Contracting party ATA Convention (1961) Annex A Annex B.1 Annex B.2 Annex B.3 Annex B.4 Annex B.5 Annex B.6 Annex B.7 Annex B.8 Annex B.9 Annex C Annex D Annex E
Istanbul Convention
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 The only reservation permitted under Annex A (Article 18(1)) concerns acceptance of ATA carnets for postal traffic. Reservations entered by: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong China, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vietnam, European Union.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 The only reservation permitted under Annex B.1 concerns Article 5(1)(a) (clearance for home use of small representative samples intended for consumption or tasting). Reservations entered by: Bahrain, Chile, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malta, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe.
  3. ↑ No reservations are permitted under Annex B.2.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Reservations under Annex B.3 are permitted in respect of Article 5(1) (Customs document and security may be required for containers, pallets and packings) and Article 7 (up to three categories of goods may be excluded). Reservations entered by: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, European Union.
  5. ↑ No reservations are permitted under Annex B.4.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 The only reservation permitted under Annex B.5 (Article 6) concerns Article 4 insofar as it relates to scientific equipment and pedagogic material, allowing Contracting Parties to require the normal Customs document and security. Entered by: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, European Union.
  7. ↑ No reservations are permitted under Annex B.6.
  8. ↑ No reservations are permitted under Annex B.7.
  9. 1 2 No reservation clause exists under Annex B.8 according to the 2006 Istanbul Convention Handbook commentary; however, the WCO's 2024 status synopsis records a reservation entered by Seychelles, the nature of which is not specified in the sources consulted.
  10. ↑ No reservations are permitted under Annex B.9.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Annex C concerns the temporary admission of means of transport and is administered through the CPD Carnet, not the ATA Carnet. Reservations permitted: Article 2(a) (exclude motor road vehicles and railway rolling stock); Article 6 (require a Customs document and/or security); Article 9.2 (different re-exportation period). Entered by: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, European Union.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Reservations permitted: Article 4(1) (require a Customs document and security for draught animals or animals for transhumance/grazing in a frontier zone); Appendix items 12–13 (refuse temporary admission for such animals or for work/transport). Entered by: Croatia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Malta, Philippines, Seychelles.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 The only reservation permitted (Article 2) concerns partial relief from import taxes such as VAT or excise. Entered by: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, European Union. Some parties, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, do not accept Annex E at all.
  14. ↑ Extended to the Macao Special Administrative Region with effect from 20 December 1999.
  15. ↑ Extended to Gibraltar by the United Kingdom; Gibraltar is not an independent Contracting Party to the ATA Convention or the Istanbul Convention, but has its own National Guaranteeing Association (Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce) in the ICC guarantee chain. Gibraltar enacted domestic implementing legislation — the Imports and Exports (ATA Convention) Regulations 2020 (LN.2020/510), in force from 24 December 2020 — under the Imports and Exports Act 1986. As of that date, only the 1961 ATA Convention had been extended to Gibraltar; the Istanbul Convention annexes had not yet been extended.
Morocco has signed but not ratified the Istanbul Convention; it participates in the ATA Carnet system under the original 1961 ATA Convention only. Some contracting parties accept additional categories of goods under national laws and regulations; see National laws below.
Sources: WCO General Secretariat SG0235Eb (10 July 2025); WCO PG0233E1 (ATA Convention, status as at 21 October 2013); WCO PG0343Ea, Position as regards signatures, ratifications and accessions (Istanbul Convention), as at 26 September 2024.

Several annexes permit contracting parties to enter limited reservations restricting their scope, as noted in the column headers above. Annexes B.2, B.4, B.6, B.7, B.8 and B.9 permit no reservations at all. Annex C, which concerns the temporary admission of motor vehicles and other means of transport, is not used for ATA Carnets; carnets covering this category of goods are issued separately as CPD Carnets.

Earlier conventions relevant to ATA carnets

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The table below summarizes contracting-party status under the individual customs conventions that preceded the Istanbul Convention, several of which remain in force independently for countries that have not ratified the corresponding Istanbul annex. It complements, but does not replace, the field-of-application table above. Contracting-party status under these earlier conventions does not by itself indicate that ATA Carnets are currently issued or accepted in practice in a given territory; for current operational status, see the list of National Guaranteeing Associations above.

The wide table below gives an overview across all of the predecessor conventions at once; the narrower tables that follow pair each convention individually with its corresponding Istanbul annex and entry-into-force dates.

Contracting parties to older Customs conventions related to temporary admission / ATA carnets
Contracting party ATA
(1961)		 Exhib./fairs
(1961)		 Prof. equip.
(1961)		 Pallets
(1960)		 Packings
(1960)		 Containers
(1972)		 Comm. samples
(1952)		 Seafarers
(1964)		 Scient. equip.
(1968)		 Pedag. mat.
(1970)		 Touring
(1954)		 Tourist publicity
(1954 Protocol)		 Private road veh.
(1954)		 Comm. road veh.
(1956)		 Aircraft & boats
(1956)
Afghanistan NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNo
Albania YesYesYesYesNoYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesNoNo
Algeria YesYesYesNoYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Argentina NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNoNo
Armenia NoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Australia YesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoNo
Austria YesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Azerbaijan NoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNo
Barbados NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
Belarus YesNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Belgium YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYes
Benin NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesNoNoNoNoNo
Bosnia and Herzegovina NoNoNoYesNoNoYesNoNoNoYesNoYesYesNo
Bulgaria YesYesYesYesYesYesNoNoNoNoYesYesYesYesNo
Burundi NoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Cambodia NoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoYesNo
Cameroon NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesNoNoNoNoNo
Canada YesNoNoNoNoYesYesNoYesNoYesNoYesNoNo
Central African Republic NoYesYesNoYesNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
Chad NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNo
Chile NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoYesYesYesNoNo
China YesYesNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Costa Rica NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
Ivory Coast YesYesNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Croatia YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoYesNoYesYesYes
Cuba YesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoNoNoYesYesYesYesNo
Cyprus YesYesYesNoNoNoYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesNo
Czech Republic YesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesNoNoYesNoNoNo
Democratic Republic of the Congo NoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Denmark YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYes
Dominican Republic NoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Ecuador NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoYesYesYesNoNo
Egypt YesYesYesNoYesNoYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesNo
El Salvador NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
European Union NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesNo
Fiji NoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoNo
Finland YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYes
France YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Gabon NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNo
Georgia NoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Germany YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Ghana NoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoYesNoYesYesYesNoNo
Greece YesYesYesNoNoNoYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesNo
Guinea NoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Haiti NoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
Hungary YesYesYesYesNoYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Iceland YesYesYesNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
India YesYesNoNoNoNoYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesNo
Indonesia NoNoNoNoNoYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Iran YesYesYesNoYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoNo
Iraq NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNo
Ireland YesYesYesNoYesNoYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesNo
Israel YesYesYesNoYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoNo
Italy YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYes
Jamaica NoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoYesYesYesNoYes
Japan YesYesYesNoNoNoYesYesNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
Jordan NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesYesNoNo
Kazakhstan NoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Kenya NoNoYesNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNo
South Korea YesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNo
Kyrgyzstan NoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNo
Lebanon YesYesYesNoYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesNoNoNo
Lesotho YesYesYesNoYesNoNoNoYesYesNoNoNoNoNo
Liberia NoNoNoNoNoYesYesNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
Libya NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNo
Lithuania NoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoYesYesYesYesNo
Luxembourg YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYes
Macau, China NoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNo
Madagascar NoYesYesNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Malaysia YesNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
Mali NoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesYesYesNoNo
Malta YesYesYesNoNoNoYesYesNoNoYesYesYesNoYes
Mauritius YesNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoYesYesYesNoYes
Mexico YesYesYesNoNoNoYesNoYesNoYesYesYesNoNo
Moldova NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNo
Montenegro NoNoNoYesNoNoYesNoNoNoYesYesYesYesYes
Morocco YesYesNoNoNoYesNoNoYesYesYesYesYesNoNo
  Nepal NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoYesNoNo
Netherlands YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
New Zealand YesYesYesNoNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoNo
Niger YesYesYesNoNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNoNoNoNo
Nigeria YesNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoNo
North Macedonia YesYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesNo
Norway YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesNoNoYesYesYesYesNo
Pakistan NoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
Peru NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
Philippines NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesYesYesNoNo
Poland YesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesNo
Portugal YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYes
Romania YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesNo
Russia YesNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
Rwanda NoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoYesYesYesYesNoNo
Saudi Arabia NoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesNo
Senegal NoYesYesNoNoNoNoNoYesYesYesYesYesNoNo
Serbia YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoNoYesYesYesYesYes
Sierra Leone NoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesNoNoYesYesYesYesYes
Singapore YesNoNoNoNoNoYesNoYesNoNoYesYesYesNo
Slovakia YesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesNoNoYesNoNoNo
Slovenia YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesNoNoYesNoYesYesYes
Solomon Islands NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoYesYesYesNoYes
South Africa YesYesYesNoYesNoNoYesYesYesNoNoNoNoNo
Spain YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Sri Lanka YesYesYesNoNoNoYesNoYesYesYesNoYesNoNo
Sudan NoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNo
Sweden YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesNoNoYesYesYesYesYes
 Switzerland YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Syria NoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesNoYesYesNoNoNo
Tanzania NoNoNoNoNoNoYesYesNoNoYesYesYesNoNo
Thailand YesYesYesNoNoNoYesNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNo
Togo NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNo
Tonga NoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoYesNoYesNoNo
Trinidad and Tobago YesYesYesNoNoYesYesNoNoNoYesYesYesNoYes
Tunisia YesYesYesNoYesYesNoYesNoYesYesYesYesNoNo
Turkey YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNo
Uganda NoYesYesNoYesNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoNo
Ukraine NoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo
United Arab Emirates NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNo
United Kingdom YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesYes
United States YesNoYesNoNoYesYesNoNoNoYesNoYesNoNo
Uruguay NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNo
Uzbekistan NoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNo
Vietnam NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoYesNoNo
Zimbabwe YesYesYesNoYesNoNoNoYesYesNoNoNoNoNo
Sources: WCO General Secretariat SG0235Eb (10 July 2025); individual WCO convention status papers PG0233E1 (ATA), PG0133E1 (Exhibitions/Fairs), PG0129E1 (Professional Equipment), PG0131E1 (Packings), PG0127E1 (Seafarers), PG0128E1 (Scientific Equipment), PG0130E1 (Pedagogic Material), PG0313Ea (Containers); and UN Treaty Collection, Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, Chapter XI: XI.A.5 (Commercial Samples), XI.A.6 (Touring), XI.A.7 (Tourist Publicity Protocol), XI.A.8 (Private Road Vehicles), XI.A.10 (Commercial Road Vehicles), XI.A.11 (Aircraft and Pleasure Boats), XI.A.14 (Pallets).

Annex A is the only annex every Contracting Party must accept, since it governs the ATA carnet document itself; this table pairs it with its sole predecessor, the 1961 ATA Convention.

Contracting parties — ATA Convention (1961) and Istanbul Convention (Annex A, mandatory)
Contracting party ATA Convention (1961) Istanbul Convention / Annex A
Albania No 2009-05-28
Algeria 1973-07-02 1998-05-08
Andorra 1998-09-02 1998-09-02
Armenia No 2018-07-03
Australia 1967-06-14 1992-01-09
Austria 1963-05-20 1994-09-29
Bahrain No 2012-05-31
Belarus 1998-05-07 1998-05-07
Belgium 1966-02-22 1997-07-18
Bosnia and Herzegovina No 2010-04-07
Brazil No 2011-05-04
Bulgaria 1964-07-31 2003-03-11
Canada 1972-07-10 No
Chile No 2004-03-03
China 1993-08-27[a] 1993-08-27
Ivory Coast 1962-06-14 No
Croatia 1994-09-29 1999-03-01
Cuba 1963-09-24 No
Cyprus 1976-10-25 2004-10-25
Czech Republic 1993-01-01 1999-11-24
Denmark 1965-04-14[b] 1997-06-18
Egypt 1968-01-11 No
Estonia No 1996-01-17
European Union No 1997-06-18
Finland 1964-08-01 1997-06-18
France 1962-12-20 1997-06-18
Georgia No 2010-04-01
Germany 1965-10-15 1997-06-18
Greece 1975-10-23 1997-06-18
Hong Kong, China —[c] 1995-02-15
Hungary 1965-11-22 2005-01-31
Iceland 1970-06-16 No
India 1989-07-05 No
Indonesia No 2014-11-17
Iran 1968-04-16 2016-09-20
Ireland 1965-04-15 1997-06-18
Israel 1966-08-25 No
Italy 1964-06-19 1997-06-18
Japan 1973-08-01 No
Jordan No 1992-06-24
Kazakhstan No 2013-08-21
Kosovo No 2024-09-18
South Korea 1978-04-04 No
Kuwait No 2017-03-12
Latvia No 1999-07-16
Lebanon 1979-12-11 No
Lesotho 1983-05-10 No
Lithuania No 1998-02-26
Luxembourg 1966-06-10 1997-06-18
Madagascar No 2008-06-02
Malaysia 1988-06-13 No
Mali No 2004-10-08
Malta 1983-11-22 2001-01-08
Mauritius 1982-04-22 1995-06-07
Mexico 2000-11-13 No
Moldova No 2009-02-02
Mongolia No 2003-06-05
Montenegro No 2008-06-23
Morocco 1996-11-19 No
Netherlands 1964-01-17 1997-06-18
New Zealand 1977-11-28 No
Niger 1978-12-08 No
Nigeria 1973-10-01 1993-06-10
North Macedonia 1996-04-03 2006-04-21
Norway 1964-10-29 No
Oman No 2012-01-11
Pakistan No 2004-05-18
Peru No 2021-07-27
Philippines No 2022-01-17
Poland 1969-07-19 1995-09-12
Portugal 1966-04-20 1997-06-18
Qatar No 2014-09-10
Romania 1967-03-07 2002-11-26
Russia 1996-04-18 1996-04-18
Saudi Arabia No 2011-05-04
Senegal 1977-10-14 No
Serbia 2001-12-27 2010-07-07
Seychelles No 2023-11-10
Singapore 1983-11-14 No
Slovakia 1993-02-05 2000-09-22
Slovenia 1993-02-23 2000-10-23
South Africa 1975-12-18 2004-05-18
Spain 1964-04-06 1997-06-18
Sri Lanka 1981-07-14 No
Sweden 1964-03-19 1997-06-18
 Switzerland 1963-04-30 1995-05-11
Tajikistan No 1997-08-27
Thailand 1994-09-30 2007-01-05
Trinidad and Tobago 1981-01-05 2011-08-29
Tunisia 1971-03-10 No
Turkey 1974-08-23 2004-12-15
Ukraine No 2004-06-22
United Arab Emirates No 2010-09-14
United Kingdom 1963-07-19 1997-06-18
United States 1968-12-03 No
Uzbekistan No 2020-06-10
Vietnam No 2019-04-03
Zimbabwe No 1992-11-17
  1. ↑ Extended to Hong Kong, China with effect from 1 July 1997.
  2. ↑ Extended to the Faroe Islands.
  3. ↑ Covered under China's accession to the ATA Convention, extended to Hong Kong with effect from 1 July 1997.
Sources: WCO PG0233E1 (ATA Convention, status as at 21 October 2013); WCO Istanbul Convention (Convention on Temporary Admission) status of ratifications/accessions as at September 2024.

Annex B.1 covers goods for display or use at exhibitions, fairs and similar events, replacing the 1961 Exhibitions and Fairs Convention in full.

Contracting parties — Exhibitions/Fairs Convention (1961) and Istanbul Convention Annex B.1
Contracting party Exhibitions & Fairs Convention (1961) Istanbul Convention Annex B.1
Algeria 1988-10-31 1998-08-08
Andorra No 1998-12-02
Australia 1962-12-20 1993-11-27
Austria 1962-09-20 1994-12-29
Belarus No 1998-08-07
Belgium 1967-07-06 1997-09-18
Bulgaria 1964-07-31 2003-06-11
Chile No 2004-06-03
China 1993-08-27 1993-11-27
Croatia 1994-09-29 1999-06-01
Cyprus 1972-12-15 2005-01-25
Czech Republic 1993-01-01 2000-02-24
Denmark 1965-04-14 1997-09-18
Estonia No 1996-04-17
Finland 1964-08-01 1997-09-18
France 1964-06-22 1997-09-18
Germany 1967-06-09 1997-09-18
Greece 1962-07-19 1997-09-18
Hong Kong, China No[a] 1995-05-15
Hungary 1963-02-04 2004-07-18
Ireland 1965-04-15 1997-09-18
Italy 1963-11-09 1997-09-18
Jordan No 1993-11-27
Latvia No 1999-10-16
Lithuania No 1998-05-26
Luxembourg 1971-02-16 1997-09-18
Mali 1989-03-03 2005-01-27
Malta 1988-05-11 2001-04-08
North Macedonia 1996-04-03 2006-07-21
Mauritius No 1995-09-07
Mongolia No 2003-09-05
Netherlands 1964-01-17 1997-09-18
Nigeria No 1993-11-27
Pakistan No 2004-08-18
Poland 1969-07-19 1995-12-12
Portugal 1962-03-31 1997-09-18
Romania 1964-01-15 2003-02-26
Russia No 1996-07-18
Slovakia 1993-02-05 2000-12-22
Slovenia 1993-02-23 2001-01-23
South Africa 1971-09-28 2004-08-18
Spain 1963-02-11 1997-09-18
Sweden 1964-03-19 1997-09-18
 Switzerland 1963-04-30 1995-08-11
Tajikistan No 1997-11-27
Turkey 1974-08-23 2005-03-15
Ukraine No 2004-09-22
United Kingdom 1963-03-25 1997-09-18
Zimbabwe No 1993-11-27
European Union No 1997-09-18
  1. ↑ Covered via China's accession to the 1961 Exhibitions/Fairs Convention, extended to Hong Kong with effect from 1 July 1997.
Sources: UN Treaty Collection registration no. 6863 (1961 Convention, status as at registration); WCO Istanbul Convention Handbook, Annex B.1 entry-into-force table (50 Contracting Parties).

Annex B.2 covers professional equipment, replacing the 1961 Professional Equipment Convention in full.

Contracting parties — Professional Equipment Convention (1961) and Istanbul Convention Annex B.2
Contracting party Professional Equipment Convention (1961) Istanbul Convention Annex B.2
Algeria 1972-12-05 1998-08-08
Andorra No 1998-12-02
Australia 1968-03-04 1994-12-29
Austria 1963-01-06 1994-12-29
Belarus No 1998-08-07
Belgium 1965-09-07 1997-09-18
Bulgaria 1964-11-01 2003-06-11
Central African Republic 1962-07-02 No
Chile No 2004-06-03
China No 1994-12-29
Croatia 1994-09-29 1999-06-01
Cuba 1963-03-04 No
Cyprus 1973-03-15 2005-01-25
Czech Republic 1993-01-01[a] 2000-02-24
Denmark 1965-07-15 1997-09-18
Egypt 1963-06-26 No
Estonia No 1996-04-17
European Union No 1997-09-18
Finland 1964-11-02 1997-09-18
France 1962-07-01 1997-09-18
Germany 1969-10-11 1997-09-18
Greece 1962-10-20 1997-09-18
Hong Kong, China —[b] 1995-05-15
Hungary 1963-05-05 2004-07-28
Iceland 1971-03-08 No
Indonesia No No
Iran 1968-07-16 No
Ireland 1965-07-16 1997-09-18
Israel 1966-05-01 No
Italy 1963-12-21 1997-09-18
Japan 1973-11-01 No
Jordan No 1994-12-29
Kenya 1983-08-31[c] No
South Korea 1978-07-04 No
Latvia No 1999-10-16
Lebanon 1980-03-11 No
Lesotho 1982-04-27 No
Lithuania No 1998-05-26
Luxembourg 1966-04-28 1997-09-18
Madagascar 1962-07-13 No
Malta 1988-08-11 2001-04-08
Mauritius No 1995-09-07
Mexico 2000-11-07[d] No
Mongolia No 2003-09-05
Montenegro 2002-02-04[e] No
Netherlands 1964-02-21 1997-09-18
Niger 1962-07-01 No
Nigeria No 1994-12-29
North Macedonia 1996-04-03 No
Norway 1962-07-01 No
Pakistan No 2004-08-18
Poland 1969-10-19 1995-12-12
Portugal 1962-07-01 1997-09-18
Romania 1968-06-26 2003-02-26
Russia No 1996-07-18
Saudi Arabia No 2024-06-25[f]
Serbia 2002-02-04[e] No
Slovakia 1993-02-05[a] 2000-12-22
Slovenia 1993-02-23 2001-01-23
South Africa 1971-12-28 2004-08-18
Spain 1963-05-12[g] 1997-09-18
Sri Lanka 1991-05-23 No
Sweden 1964-06-20 1997-09-18
 Switzerland 1963-07-31[h] 1995-08-11
Tajikistan No 1997-11-27
Thailand 1994-12-30 2007-04-05
Trinidad and Tobago 1981-04-05 No
Tunisia 1972-07-21 No
Turkey 1974-11-23 2005-03-15
Uganda 1989-10-11 No
Ukraine No 2004-09-22
United Kingdom 1963-06-26[i] 1997-09-18
United States 1968-12-03[j] No
Zimbabwe 1987-05-18 1993-11-27
  1. 1 2 Czechoslovakia signed the Convention definitively on 28 March 1962 (effect 1 July 1962). The Czech Republic and Slovakia are treated as successor states.
  2. ↑ Covered via the United Kingdom's extension of the Professional Equipment Convention to Hong Kong with effect from 14 March 1974, and to the Hong Kong SAR from 1 July 1997.
  3. ↑ Kenya accepted Annex C only of the Professional Equipment Convention.
  4. ↑ Mexico accepted Annexes A and B only of the Professional Equipment Convention.
  5. 1 2 Listed as "Serbia and Montenegro" in WCO PG0129E1a (status as at 1 July 2006); both successor states are treated individually for current Istanbul Convention status.
  6. ↑ Post-dates the WCO Istanbul Convention Handbook's 48-party Annex B.2 table (2006/2008 edition); sourced from a secondary compilation.
  7. ↑ Spain denounced the Convention with effect from 6 January 1973 but cancelled the denunciation with effect from 24 May 1976, resuming participation from that date.
  8. ↑ Extended to the Principality of Liechtenstein for as long as it is linked to Switzerland by a customs union treaty.
  9. ↑ Extended on the same date to Jersey, the Isle of Man and the Bailiwick of Guernsey; extended to Hong Kong with effect from 14 March 1974, and to the Hong Kong SAR from 1 July 1997.
  10. ↑ Applies to the customs territory of the United States, including the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
Sources: UN Treaty Collection registration no. 6862 (Professional Equipment Convention, "Date of Effect" column, status as registered); WCO PG0129E1a (status as at 1 July 2006, for entries not in UN registration 6862 or post-dating it); WCO Istanbul Convention Handbook, Annex B.2 entry-into-force table (48 Contracting Parties).

Annex B.3 covers containers, pallets, packings, samples and other goods imported in connection with a commercial operation, and is the most composite of the annexes, drawing on four earlier instruments: the 1960 Pallets Convention and 1960 Packings Convention, replaced in full, together with only specified provisions of the 1972 Containers Convention and the 1952 Commercial Samples Convention (Articles 3, 5 and 6(1.b and 2) of the latter).

Contracting parties — Pallets (1960), Packings (1960), Containers (1972), Commercial Samples (1952) conventions, and Istanbul Convention Annex B.3
Contracting party Pallets (1960) Packings (1960) Containers (1972) Commercial Samples (1952) Istanbul Convention Annex B.3
Albania 2008-10-14NoNoNoNo
Algeria No1988-11-031978-12-14No1998-08-08
Andorra NoNoNoNo1998-12-02
Armenia NoNo2006-06-09NoNo
Australia 1969-10-01No1975-11-101956-01-06No
Austria 1963-10-071962-03-091977-06-171956-06-081996-04-17
Belarus NoNo1976-09-01No1998-08-07
Belgium 1962-03-141963-06-27No1957-08-281997-09-18
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1994-01-12NoNo1994-01-12No
Bulgaria 1961-02-281969-08-051977-02-22No2003-06-11
Canada NoNo1975-12-101974-06-12No
China NoNo1986-01-22No2019-01-09
Croatia 1994-08-311994-09-29No1994-08-311999-06-01
Cuba 1963-09-261963-10-311984-11-231976-04-26No
Cyprus NoNoNo1963-05-162005-01-25
Czech Republic 1993-06-021993-01-011974-09-041993-06-022000-02-24
Denmark 1961-03-141961-12-15No1955-10-051997-09-18
Egypt No1963-03-25No1955-09-29No
Estonia NoNoNoNo1996-04-17
Finland 1966-08-191965-04-231983-02-221954-05-271997-09-18
France 1962-03-121961-01-26No1964-02-071997-09-18
Georgia NoNo1999-06-02NoNo
Germany 1964-09-291969-07-11No1955-09-021997-09-18
Greece NoNoNo1955-02-101997-09-18
Hong Kong, China NoNoNoNo1996-04-17
Hungary 1963-07-26No1973-12-121957-06-032004-07-18
Iceland NoNoNo1977-04-28No
India NoNoNo1954-08-03No
Indonesia NoNo1989-10-111954-04-21No
Iran No1968-04-16No1970-06-11No
Ireland No1965-09-15No1959-04-231997-09-18
Israel No1961-06-02No1957-10-08No
Italy 1967-01-051963-05-30No1958-02-201997-09-18
Japan NoNoNo1955-08-02No
Kazakhstan NoNo2005-01-25No2013-11-21
South Korea No1975-10-211984-10-191978-06-12No
Latvia NoNoNoNo1999-10-16
Lebanon NoNo2013-08-29NoNo
Lesotho No1982-01-27NoNoNo
Lithuania NoNo2002-03-27No1998-05-26
Luxembourg 1962-07-311964-05-12No1957-09-091997-09-18
North Macedonia NoNoNoNo2006-07-21
Malaysia NoNoNo1958-08-21No
Malta NoNoNo1968-06-272001-04-08
Mauritius NoNoNo1969-07-18No
Mexico NoNoNo2000-11-07No
Moldova NoNo2016-10-11No2010-07-01
Mongolia NoNoNoNo2003-09-05
Montenegro 2006-10-23No2006-10-232006-10-232008-09-23
Morocco NoNo1990-08-14NoNo
Netherlands 1962-10-221962-11-21No1955-05-031997-09-18
New Zealand NoNo1974-12-201957-04-19No
Nigeria NoNoNo1961-06-261996-04-17
Norway 1964-10-271961-11-21No1954-11-02No
Pakistan NoNoNo1953-10-12No
Philippines NoNoNoNo2022-04-17
Poland 1969-09-041965-06-291982-04-291960-02-182001-06-15
Portugal 1968-01-151990-05-23No1956-09-241997-09-18
Romania 1964-05-151966-12-231975-03-061968-11-152003-02-26
Russia NoNo1976-08-23No1996-07-18
Saudi Arabia NoNo2008-12-23No2024-06-25
Serbia 2001-03-12No2001-09-062001-03-12No
Singapore NoNoNo1966-06-07No
Slovakia 1993-05-281993-02-051974-09-041993-05-282000-12-22
Slovenia 1992-11-031993-02-23No1992-11-032001-01-23
South Africa No1973-10-11NoNoNo
Spain 1973-02-021965-01-081975-04-161954-09-091997-09-18
Sri Lanka NoNoNo1959-10-28No
Sweden 1961-03-011961-03-21No1955-02-231997-09-18
 Switzerland 1963-04-241963-04-301976-10-121954-12-041996-04-17
Tajikistan NoNoNoNo1997-11-27
Thailand NoNoNo1994-11-30No
Trinidad and Tobago NoNo1990-03-231966-04-11No
Tunisia NoNo2009-03-11NoNo
Turkey 1974-10-101965-12-271994-07-131956-12-082005-03-15
Ukraine NoNo1976-09-01No2004-09-22
United Kingdom 1962-10-011977-04-01No1955-10-211997-09-18
United States NoNo1984-11-121957-09-17No
Uzbekistan NoNo1996-11-27NoNo
Zimbabwe No1987-02-18NoNoNo
European Union NoNoNoNo1997-09-18
Sources: UN Treaty Collection Chapter XI.A.14 (Pallets Convention, status as at 20 June 2026); WCO PG0131E1a (Packings Convention, status as at 1 July 2006); WCO Handbook, Customs Convention on Containers, 1972 (January 2023 edition), Part II, List of Contracting Parties (status as at 14 June 2021); UN Treaty Collection Chapter XI.A.5 (Commercial Samples Convention, status as at 20 June 2026); WCO PG0343Ea (Istanbul Convention Annex B.3, status as at 26 September 2024). Annex B.3 replaces the Pallets and Packings conventions in full, and only specified articles of the Containers Convention and the Commercial Samples Convention.

Annex B.5 covers goods imported for educational, scientific or cultural purposes, consolidating three separate conventions on seafarers' welfare material, scientific equipment and pedagogic material into a single annex.

Contracting parties — Seafarers (1964), Scientific Equipment (1968), Pedagogic Material (1970) conventions, and Istanbul Convention Annex B.5
Contracting party Seafarers (1964) Scientific equipment (1968) Pedagogic material (1970) Istanbul Convention Annex B.5
Algeria 1969-06-05 1969-11-05 1971-09-16 1998-08-08
Andorra No No No 1998-12-02
Argentina No No 1973-04-03 No
Australia 1967-04-09 1969-09-30 1971-09-25 No
Austria No 1972-06-29 1973-01-10 1995-09-07
Barbados No No 1975-06-07 No
Belarus No No No 1998-08-07
Belgium 1966-09-20 1971-02-12 No 1997-09-18
Benin No 1969-09-05 1971-09-10 No
Bulgaria No No No 2003-06-11
Cameroon No 1970-03-05 1971-09-29 No
Canada No 1974-10-24 No No
Chad No 1969-09-30 No No
Chile No 1970-07-03 No No
Croatia 1994-09-29[a] 1994-09-29[a] No 1999-06-01
Cyprus No 1971-05-12 1974-02-28 2005-01-25
Czech Republic No 1993-01-01[b] No 2000-02-24
Denmark 1966-08-16 1969-09-05 No 1997-09-18
Ecuador No 1969-12-23 No No
Egypt 1968-01-20 1970-08-26 —[c] No
Estonia No No No 1996-04-17
European Union No No No 1997-09-18
Fiji No[d] 1971-06-17 No No
Finland 1968-08-17 No No 1997-09-18
France 1966-10-06 1969-09-05 1973-06-15 1997-09-18
Gabon No 1969-11-25 No No
Germany 1969-10-11 1969-09-10 1971-09-10 1997-09-18
Ghana No 1969-09-05 No No
Greece 1971-04-18 1974-04-23 1974-04-23 1997-09-18
Hungary No 1976-05-25 1976-05-25 2004-07-18
India No 1971-06-09 1974-03-04 No
Iran 1970-04-21 1970-04-21 1972-07-24 No
Iraq No No 1972-03-02 No
Ireland 1967-05-27 No No 1997-09-18
Israel 1971-12-13 1971-02-05 1973-07-05 No
Italy 1968-06-26 1975-08-06 No 1997-09-18
Ivory Coast 1978-12-26 No No No
Japan 1968-09-15[e] No No No
Jordan No No 1971-09-25 No
Kenya 1967-06-06 1983-12-01 No No
South Korea 1976-01-21 1982-09-18 1982-09-18 No
Latvia No No No 1999-10-16
Lebanon 1965-12-11 1971-08-07 1971-09-10 No
Lesotho No 1982-04-27 1982-04-27 No
Libya No 1969-09-18 No No
Lithuania No No No 1998-05-26
Luxembourg 1975-05-27 1972-06-09 No 1997-09-18
Madagascar 1966-12-30 No No No
Mali No 1987-10-31 No No
Malta 1966-10-01 No No 2001-04-08
Mauritius No No No 1995-09-07
Mexico No 1972-10-19 No No
Mongolia No No No 2003-09-05
Montenegro 2001-12-27[f] No No No
Morocco No 1978-09-22 1973-11-03 No
Netherlands 1967-02-09 1971-01-20 1986-09-06 1997-09-18
New Zealand 1965-12-11 1978-02-28 1978-02-28 No
Niger 1965-12-11 1969-09-05 1972-06-21 No
Nigeria No[g] No[h] No 1995-09-07
North Macedonia No No No 2006-07-21
Norway 1965-12-11 No No No
Pakistan 1966-12-27 No No No
Philippines No 1973-07-10 1973-07-10 No
Poland No 1971-09-14 1972-11-29 2001-06-15
Portugal 1968-02-10 1972-01-19 1975-09-03 1997-09-18
Romania 1967-06-07 1971-03-07 No 2003-02-26
Russia No No No 1996-07-18
Rwanda No No 1971-09-10 No
Saudi Arabia No No No 2024-06-25[i]
Senegal No 1971-08-19 1975-12-02 No
Serbia 2001-12-27[f] No No No
Sierra Leone 1966-12-07 No No No
Singapore No 1969-12-08 No No
Slovakia No 1993-02-05[b] No 2000-12-22
Slovenia 1993-02-23[a] No No 2001-01-23
Solomon Islands No 1982-07-02 No No
Somalia No No 1971-09-29 No
South Africa 1965-12-28 1971-12-28 1976-03-18 No
Spain 1967-01-07 1971-05-26 1973-02-17 1997-09-18
Sri Lanka No 1991-05-23 1991-05-23 No
Sweden 1966-05-15 No No 1997-09-18
 Switzerland 1968-11-22[j] 1974-02-14[k] 1974-02-14[l] 1995-09-07
Syria 1975-07-30 1975-01-24 No No
Tajikistan No No No 1997-11-27
Tanzania 1976-03-08 No No No
Thailand No 1971-01-16 No No
Togo No No 1971-09-10 No
Tunisia 1965-12-11 No 1972-01-20 No
Turkey 1991-05-17 1991-05-17 1991-05-17 2005-03-15
Uganda 1967-09-19 1989-10-11 1989-10-11 No
Ukraine No No No 2004-09-22
United Kingdom 1966-08-25 1969-09-30 No 1997-09-18
Zimbabwe No 1987-02-05 1987-05-18 1995-09-07
  1. 1 2 3 Not in the UN treaty registration (post-dates the original 1963/1965 registration); sourced from WCO status paper.
  2. 1 2 Czechoslovakia was an original signatory; the Czech Republic and Slovakia are treated as successor states.
  3. ↑ Egypt withdrew a reservation on 25 January 1980; no accession date is recorded in the UN registration or WCO status paper for the Pedagogic Material Convention.
  4. ↑ Fiji was covered under the United Kingdom's extension of the Seafarers Convention from 26 November 1966; it did not accede separately.
  5. ↑ Deposit date 15 June 1968; entry into force three months later per Convention Article. UN registration does not show a "Date of Effect" for Japan.
  6. 1 2 Listed as "Serbia and Montenegro" in WCO PG0127E1a (status as at 1 July 2006); both successor states are treated individually.
  7. ↑ Nigeria applied the Seafarers Convention provisionally from 4 November 1969 but did not formally accede.
  8. ↑ Nigeria applied the Scientific Equipment Convention provisionally from 4 November 1969 but did not formally accede.
  9. ↑ Post-dates the WCO Istanbul Convention Handbook's 42-party Annex B.5 table (2006/2008 edition); sourced from a secondary compilation.
  10. ↑ Extended to the Principality of Liechtenstein for as long as it is linked to Switzerland by a customs union treaty.
  11. ↑ Extended to the Principality of Liechtenstein for as long as it is linked to Switzerland by a customs union treaty.
  12. ↑ Extended to the Principality of Liechtenstein for as long as it is linked to Switzerland by a customs union treaty.
Sources: UN Treaty Collection registrations 8012 (Seafarers, 1964), 9884 (Scientific Equipment, 1968), 11650 (Pedagogic Material, 1970), "Date of Effect" column; WCO status papers PG0127E1a, PG0128E1a, PG0130E1a (all as at 1 July 2006) for entries not in or post-dating UN registrations; WCO Istanbul Convention Handbook, Annex B.5 entry-into-force table (42 Contracting Parties); post-2006 Annex B.5 accessions from a secondary compilation as noted.

Annex B.6 replaces only the customs provisions (Articles 2 and 5) of the 1954 Touring Convention, while Annex B.7 separately replaces that convention's 1954 Tourist Publicity Protocol in full.

Contracting parties — Customs Facilities for Touring Convention (1954) and Tourist Publicity Protocol (1954), and Istanbul Convention Annexes B.6 and B.7
Contracting party Touring Convention (1954) Tourist Publicity Protocol (1954) Istanbul Convention Annex B.6 Istanbul Convention Annex B.7
Albania 2010-08-09 2010-08-09 No 2009-08-28[a]
Algeria 1963-10-31 1963-10-31 1998-08-08 1998-08-08
Andorra No No 1998-12-02 1998-12-02
Argentina 1986-12-19 1986-12-19 No No
Australia 1967-01-06 1967-01-06 No No
Austria 1956-03-30 1956-03-30 1995-08-11 1997-09-18
Barbados 1971-03-05 1971-03-05 No No
Belarus No No No No
Belgium 1955-02-21 1955-02-21 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1993-09-01 No No No
Brazil No No 2016-06-28[a] No
Bulgaria 1959-10-07 1959-10-07 2003-06-11 2003-06-11
Cambodia 1955-11-29 No[b] No No
Canada 1955-06-01 No No No
Central African Republic 1962-10-15 1962-10-15 No No
Chile 1974-08-15 1974-08-15 No No
Costa Rica 1963-09-04 1963-09-04 No No
Croatia 1994-08-31 No 1999-06-01 1999-06-01
Cuba 1963-10-23 1964-06-29 No No
Cyprus 1963-05-16 1963-05-16 2005-01-25 2005-01-25
Czech Republic No 1993-06-02 2000-02-24 2000-02-24
Denmark 1955-10-13 1955-10-13 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Ecuador 1962-08-30 1962-08-30 No No
Egypt 1957-04-04 1957-04-04 No No
El Salvador 1958-06-18 1958-06-18 No No
Estonia No No 1996-04-17 No
European Union No No 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Fiji 1972-10-31 1972-10-31 No No
Finland 1962-06-21 1962-06-21 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
France 1959-04-24 1959-04-24 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Germany 1957-09-16 1957-09-16 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Ghana 1958-06-16 1958-06-16 No No
Greece 1974-01-15 1974-01-15 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Haiti 1958-02-12 1958-02-12 No No
Holy See No[c] No No No
Honduras No[d] No No No
Hungary 1963-10-29 1963-10-29 2004-07-18 2004-07-18
India 1958-05-05 1957-02-15 No No
Indonesia No No 2015-02-17[a] No
Iran 1968-04-03 1968-04-03 No No
Ireland 1967-08-14 1967-08-14 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Israel 1957-08-01 1957-08-01 No No
Italy 1958-02-12 1958-02-12 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Jamaica 1963-11-11 1963-11-11 No No
Japan 1955-09-07 1955-09-07 No No
Jordan 1957-12-18 1957-12-18 No No
Kazakhstan No No 2013-11-21[a] No
Latvia No No 1999-10-16 1999-10-16
Lebanon 1971-03-16 1971-03-16 No No
Liberia 2005-09-16 2005-09-16 No No
Lithuania 2005-12-01 2005-12-01 1998-05-26 2004-02-06
Luxembourg 1956-11-21 1956-11-21 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Malaysia 1958-05-07 1958-05-07 No No
Mali 1973-08-01 1974-06-11 No No
Malta 1966-01-03 1968-07-29 2001-04-08 2001-04-08
Mauritius 1969-07-18 1969-07-18 No No
Mexico 1957-06-13 1957-06-13 No No
Monaco No[e] No No No
Montenegro 2006-10-23 2006-10-23 2008-09-23[a] No
Morocco 1957-09-25 1957-09-25 No No
  Nepal 1960-09-21 1960-09-21 No No
Netherlands 1958-03-07 1958-03-07 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
New Zealand 1962-08-17 1962-08-17 No No
Nigeria 1961-06-26 1961-06-26 1995-08-11 1997-09-18
North Macedonia No No 2006-07-21 2006-07-21
Norway 1961-10-10 1961-10-10 No No
Peru 1959-01-16 1959-01-16 No No
Philippines 1960-02-09 1960-02-19 2022-04-17[a] No
Poland 1960-03-16 1960-03-16 2001-06-15 2001-06-15
Portugal 1958-09-18 1958-09-18 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Romania 1961-01-26 1961-01-26 2003-02-26 2003-02-26
Russia 1959-08-17 1959-08-17 No No
Rwanda 1964-12-01 1964-12-01 No No
Senegal 1972-04-19 1972-04-19 No No
Serbia 2001-03-12 2001-03-12 No No
Sierra Leone 1962-03-13 1962-03-13 No No
Singapore —[f] 1966-11-22 No No
Slovakia No 1993-05-28 2000-12-22 2000-12-22
Slovenia 1992-07-06 No 2001-01-23 2001-01-23
Solomon Islands 1981-09-03 1981-09-03 No No
Spain 1958-08-18 1958-09-05 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
Sri Lanka 1955-11-28 No No No
Sweden 1957-06-11 1957-06-11 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
 Switzerland 1956-05-23[g] 1956-05-23[h] 1995-08-11 1997-09-18
Syria 1959-03-26 1959-03-26 No No
Tanzania 1964-06-22 1964-06-22 No No
Tonga 1977-11-11 1977-11-11 No No
Trinidad and Tobago 1966-04-11 1966-04-11 No No
Tunisia 1974-06-20 1974-06-20 No No
Turkey 1983-04-26 1983-04-26 2005-03-15 2005-03-15
Uganda 1965-04-15 1965-04-15 No No
Ukraine No No 2004-09-22 2004-09-22
United Kingdom 1956-02-27 1956-02-27 1997-09-18 1997-09-18
United States 1956-07-25 No No No
Uruguay 1967-09-08 No No No
Vietnam 1956-01-31 No No No
Zimbabwe No No 1995-08-11 No
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Post-dates the WCO Istanbul Convention Handbook's entry-into-force table (2006/2008 edition); sourced from a secondary compilation.
  2. ↑ Cambodia signed but did not ratify the Tourist Publicity Protocol.
  3. ↑ The Holy See signed but did not ratify the Touring Convention.
  4. ↑ Honduras signed but did not ratify the Touring Convention.
  5. ↑ Monaco signed but did not ratify the Touring Convention.
  6. ↑ Singapore acceded to the Touring Convention on 22 November 1966 but subsequently denounced it with effect from 3 February 2001.
  7. ↑ Applies to the Principality of Liechtenstein for as long as it is linked to Switzerland by a customs union treaty.
  8. ↑ Applies to the Principality of Liechtenstein for as long as it is linked to Switzerland by a customs union treaty.
Sources: UN Treaty Collection Chapter XI.A.6 (Touring Convention, status as at 14 June 2026); XI.A.7 (Tourist Publicity Protocol, status as at 14 June 2026); WCO Istanbul Convention Handbook, Annex B.6 entry-into-force table (38 Contracting Parties) and Annex B.7 entry-into-force table (36 Contracting Parties); post-2006 accessions from a secondary compilation as noted.

National laws

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Beyond the categories of goods covered by the ATA Convention and the Istanbul Convention annexes, many contracting parties accept ATA Carnets for additional categories of temporary admission under their own national customs laws and regulations. The WCO's ATA Handbook records each contracting party's notified scope, including such national-law extensions, as of its 2002 edition; current government sources confirm that several of these extensions remain in place, sometimes with updated terms.[68]

Temporary admission operations under national laws and regulations, by contracting party
Contracting party Categories accepted under national law Source
China Sporting goods, accepted under national law from 1 January 2020, despite China not having accepted Istanbul Convention Annex B.6. [69]
Morocco Not applicable; Morocco signed the Istanbul Convention subject to ratification on 28 June 1991 but has not ratified it, and participates under the original 1961 ATA Convention only. [70]
Canada (2002) Goods connected with conventions, meetings, exhibitions, sporting and entertainment events, including official paraphernalia of a foreign organization sold at a convention it holds, athletic and theatrical equipment brought by non-resident performers, and press and broadcast equipment for covering news and sports events.
(current) CBSA guidance confirms goods imported for a CBSA-recognized convention, meeting, trade show, exhibition or event may be documented on an ATA Carnet, including official paraphernalia bearing a foreign organization's registered symbol; separate guidance extends temporary-importation treatment to goods imported for testing, certification by an accredited organization, and emergency response.		 [68][71][72]
Japan (2002) Reusable containers and similar receptacles used repeatedly for the transportation of goods, articles for academic research, articles for trial or testing, and samples for soliciting orders.
(current) Japan Customs confirms continued acceptance of articles for scientific research and articles for testing under Article 17 of the Customs Tariff Law.		 [68][73]
Poland Packings suitable for repeated use and articles for the personal use of travellers crossing the frontier, under a ministerial order of 17 February 1962. [68]
Czech Republic Goods imported for educational, pedagogic or cultural purposes; tourist publicity material; sports equipment for competitions, shows or training; goods imported for humanitarian use such as medical and laboratory goods. [68]
Denmark Costumes and decoration sets for film production; tourist publicity material; racing vehicles; touring artists' performance effects; circus and fair equipment; films shown to prospective buyers or hirers. [68]
Finland Goods for international festivals, sports contests or congresses; theatrical-performance goods; goods for testing or demonstration; tools loaned free of charge by a foreign buyer to a local manufacturer for producing export goods. [68]
France Horses participating in competitions, temporarily imported and exported with their equipment. [68]
Germany Professional articles imported by travellers for a period of use not exceeding six months, where not otherwise treated as personal professional equipment. [68]
Hungary Goods admitted for demonstration, testing or use at exhibitions, fairs and competitions; commercial travellers' samples; models for the manufacture of goods imported for inward processing. [68]
Israel Travellers' personal effects; sports equipment for use at sports events; positive film prints intended solely for screening before prospective distribution buyers. [68]
Italy Animals, boats and equipment used solely at sports events; horses with their saddlery for races and shows; arms and ammunition carried by shooting-competition participants; trophies presented as prizes. [68]
Lebanon Goods, apparatus and products of a new type intended for testing; cinematographic equipment; exhibition equipment; other professional equipment brought by non-Lebanese persons or firms; press, radio and television correspondents' equipment. [68]
Malaysia Goods admitted under Section 97 of the Customs Act 1967 and Item 29 of the Sales Tax (Exemption) Order 1980. [68]
Malta Spare parts for the repair of tourists' private vehicles; commercial samples. [68]
New Zealand Goods generally admitted for up to twelve months, other than goods for processing or repair, normal manufacturing or commercial use, television advertising film or videotape, and unmarkable unique articles. [68]
Romania Sports equipment for competitions; scientific equipment for research and education; material for theatrical and similar performances; film copies for viewing by potential renters. [68]
Qatar Professional broadcasting equipment under Annex B.2, approved on an exceptional basis during the 2022 FIFA World Cup (October–December 2022); Qatar's normal coverage at the time was limited to Annexes A and B.1. The WCO's Istanbul Convention synopsis has since recorded Qatar as accepting Annex B.2 with a reservation. [74][75]
Senegal Sporting goods imported by foreign nationals to take part in international contests held in Senegal. [68]
Singapore Samples for demonstration, testing or soliciting orders; goods for exhibitions and fairs; equipment for theatrical performances; professional and cinematographic equipment for the press, radio, film and television. [68]
South Africa Commercial samples owned abroad and imported to solicit orders for goods to be supplied from abroad. [68]
Spain All cases of temporary admission provided for under Spanish national law, including competition vehicles and animals. [68]
Sweden Goods for use at international sports contests; articles shown to prospective resellers or other buyers. [68]
 Switzerland Sports equipment for contests, where a temporary admission document is still required. [68]
United Kingdom Teaching aids; positive cinematographic films intended for projection before commercial use. [68]
Entries marked "(2002)" or with no date marker reflect the position recorded in the 2nd edition of the WCO's ATA Handbook (2002) and may not capture subsequent changes to national practice. Entries marked "(current)" have been independently confirmed against current government sources. Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey and the United States notified no national-law extensions in the same edition of the Handbook.

Special application cases

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Due to bilateral, multilateral or subnational customs agreements, the following cases are possible:

Countries which accept ATA Carnets even without having signed any Convention
Liechtenstein Territorial application of Switzerland extended to Liechtenstein via their customs union established by the Treaty of 29 March 1923.[76][77]
Monaco Territorial application of France extended to Monaco via their customs union.[78][79]
San Marino Territorial application of the European Union extended to San Marino via their Cooperation and Customs Union Agreement.[80][81][82][83]
Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, Lesotho Territorial application of South Africa extended to Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini and Lesotho via the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).[84][85][86][87][88]
Countries and territories which delegate their power in areas covered by the convention to supranational entities
European Union member states In virtue of their European Union Customs Union, EU member states apply the ATA Convention and Istanbul Convention as part of EU law.[89][90][91]
Macau, China China extended the application of the ATA Convention (and subsequently the Istanbul Convention) to the Macao Special Administrative Region with effect from 20 December 1999,[92] allowing the Macao Chamber of Commerce to join the ATA guarantee chain as a separately-recognised guaranteeing organisation.
Territories which are part of a contracting party but are not part of the same customs territory and do not accept carnets
Greenland Denmark — Greenland is not part of the Danish customs territory and the ATA Convention has not been extended to it.
Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Caribbean Netherlands (formerly Netherlands Antilles) Netherlands — The WCO Istanbul Convention Handbook (2006 edition) confirmed the Curaçao Chamber of Commerce as issuing and guaranteeing association for the Netherlands Antilles under the Netherlands' Istanbul Convention territorial application ("The Kingdom of the Netherlands (The Kingdom in Europe and the Netherlands Antilles)").[93] Following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, Curaçao and Sint Maarten became separate constituent countries of the Kingdom; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba became Caribbean Netherlands (special municipalities of the Netherlands proper). The current status of ATA Carnet operations in these territories has not been independently confirmed from ICC/WATAC sources since that date.
Aruba Netherlands — Aruba became a separate constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1986 and is not covered by the Istanbul Convention's Netherlands territorial application, which specifies only "the Netherlands Antilles". Under earlier ATA-related conventions (Professional Equipment, Exhibitions/Fairs), the Netherlands explicitly extended coverage to "the Netherlands Antilles and to Aruba"; this explicit extension has not been confirmed for the Istanbul Convention.
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Norway — ATA Carnets are not accepted in these territories, which are outside the Norwegian customs territory.
Territories which are part of a contracting party but are not part of the same customs territory and accept carnets independently
Gibraltar United Kingdom — Gibraltar is covered under the UK's ATA Convention extension (territorial application registered with the UN on 11 February 1969, UN Treaty Series vol. 658, No. 6864[94]) and accepts ATA Carnets independently through the Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce. Gibraltar enacted its own domestic implementing legislation — the Imports and Exports (ATA Convention) Regulations 2020 (LN.2020/510) — with effect from 24 December 2020.[95] As of that date only the 1961 ATA Convention, and not the Istanbul Convention annexes, had been extended to Gibraltar.
Faroe Islands Denmark — The Faroe Islands are not part of the Danish customs territory nor of the EU, but accept ATA Carnets.
Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla Spain — These territories are not part of the EU VAT territory and accept ATA Carnets independently, covered by the Spanish NGA.
Åland Finland — The Åland Islands are not part of the Finnish VAT territory nor the EU VAT area, but accept ATA Carnets.
ATA Carnets not accepted or not necessary between contracting party sovereign states in view of a customs union
European Union member states ATA Carnets are not required between EU member states, which form a single customs territory. Goods moving between EU member states are in free circulation and no temporary admission procedures apply.[89]
ATA Carnets with special conditions between contracting party sovereign states
Andorra–European Union Goods covered by an ATA Carnet issued in one of the contracting parties may be temporarily admitted to the other under special conditions reflecting the Andorra–EU customs agreement.[96][97]
Turkey–European Union Under the EU–Turkey Customs Union, goods of one part of the customs union which are placed under a temporary admission procedure in the other part are covered by ATA Carnet, but must be handled differently from goods originating outside the union.[98][99]

Carnet usage

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ATA Carnets allow businesses and individuals to use a single customs document for the temporary export, import and transit of certain categories of goods through customs in several countries or customs territories, without depositing import duties and taxes at each border or providing separate temporary import bonds. They are commonly used by exhibitors at trade fairs, salespeople carrying commercial samples, professional equipment users such as television crews and technicians, artists, athletes, event participants and other travellers carrying goods for temporary use abroad.[100][101]

The main benefits of an ATA Carnet include:

  • simplifying customs clearance in the countries of export, import and transit by replacing customs documents that would otherwise be required;
  • providing an internationally recognised financial guarantee for customs duties and taxes that may become payable if the conditions of temporary admission are not met;
  • reducing the need to provide separate temporary import bonds, cash deposits or other securities in each country visited;
  • helping users overcome language barriers and unfamiliar national customs forms.

ATA Carnets are intended for goods that will be re-exported, rather than consumed, disposed of or sold abroad. They are generally not suitable for consumable or disposable goods, or for goods intended for sale in the country of temporary admission. A carnet also does not replace any export licence, import permit or other regulatory approval that may be required for controlled goods.[102]

The carnet holder remains responsible for ensuring that the goods are presented to Customs when required, re-exported within the permitted period, and not sold, consumed or otherwise diverted without Customs authorisation. Failure to re-export all or some of the goods listed on the carnet may result in a claim for applicable duties, taxes and possible penalties under the international guarantee system.[103]

ATA Carnet format and composition

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ATA Carnets are issued in two formats: the traditional paper-based document and the new digital eATA Carnet, which began its global transition on 1 June 2026. While the paper system is expected to remain in use until the end of 2027, the digital system is designed to eventually replace paper entirely by 1 January 2028.[104]

Paper ATA Carnet composition

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The paper ATA Carnet comprises a front and back cover within which are counterfoils and vouchers for each country to be visited or transited. The vouchers act as receipts for entry and re-export in foreign countries and are kept by foreign customs officials. The counterfoils are stamped by the foreign customs services and act as the carnet holder's receipt.[2] Paper ATA Carnets are in A4 paper format.

  • Covering pages
    • These pages contain all information about goods, users, issuing data, guaranteeing associations and notes on the usage.
    • They are kept in the Carnet at all times.
  • Counterfoils
    • Counterfoils are used as evidence in case of duties and taxes are claimed in a later stage, it is therefore important to have the counterfoils properly stamped by Customs and kept properly in the Carnet. Based on colours, there are three types of counterfoils: exportation/re-importation (yellow), importation/re-exportation (white), transit (blue).
  • Vouchers
    • They are used as Customs declaration and guarantee, meaning they will be detached from the carnet and kept by Customs. There are five types of vouchers: yellow exportation voucher, yellow re-importation voucher, white importation voucher, white re-exportation voucher, and blue transit voucher. Each voucher is followed by the general list of goods.

Digital ATA Carnet (eATA) Composition

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The digital system, also known as the eATA Carnet System, consists of a suite of tools managed by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) that replaces physical paper with secure electronic records.[104]

  • Digital Wallet (ATA Carnet App/Desktop): Instead of a physical folder, the digital carnet is stored in a secure mobile or desktop application. It contains the carnet details, the General List of items, and any attached documents.
  • Transaction QR Codes: The digital system replaces paper vouchers with dynamic QR codes. Holders "Prepare a Travel" in the app to select specific goods and generate a code for each border crossing (e.g., Exportation, Importation).
  • Digital History: In place of stamped counterfoils, the app includes a History section. Once a Customs officer digitally commits a transaction, a record is automatically updated across the system, providing real-time visibility of the goods' status.
  • Digital Signatures: Hand-written signatures are replaced by digital consent and PKCS#7 standard digital signatures, which record the identity of the holder or authorized representative performing the declaration.

Replacement and duplicate carnets

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A duplicate Carnet is issued to replace an existing Carnet in the case of the destruction, loss or theft. The validity of which expires on the same date as that of the one being replaced. The concept of a duplicate carnet is obsolete in the digital environment because a digital carnet cannot be lost; it can be redownloaded to any authorized device using the unique Carnet ID and PIN.

Some countries also accept replacement carnets: a replacement Carnet is issued where it is expected that the temporary admission operation will exceed the period of validity of the one being replaced. A new validity date will be given to the replacement Carnet. When accepting the replacement, the Customs authorities concerned discharge the Carnet replaced.

Goods covered by the ATA Carnet

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ATA Carnets cover the usual and unusual: computers, repair tools, photographic and film equipment, musical instruments, industrial machinery, vehicles, jewellery, clothing, medical appliances, aircraft, race horses, art work, prehistoric relics, ballet costumes and rock group sound systems. ATA Carnets do not cover perishable or consumable items, or goods for processing or repair.[105]

The most common uses include, but are not limited to:

  • exhibitions and fairs
  • professional equipment
  • commercial samples and goods for testing purposes
  • sports equipment
  • goods for educational, scientific or cultural purposes

ATA Carnets may not be used for every purpose provided for the Istanbul (ATA and others) conventions in every member state of the ATA Carnet system, as they might not have acceded to the respective convention.[106]

CPD China-Taiwan Carnet

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A front cover page of a CPD China-Taiwan Carnet

A system similar to the ATA Carnet System generally called Carnet de Passages en Douane China-Taiwan (CPD China-Taiwan) operates on the basis of bilateral agreements between Taiwan (under the name of Chinese Taipei) and a certain number of ATA countries including the EU member states,[107] Australia, Canada, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States of America (under the name of TECRO/AIT carnet). Other than a different colour code to distinguish it from the ATA Carnet, the conditions for its use, the goods for which it can be used, and customs procedures are identical.[108][109] The CPD China-Taiwan Carnet is not to be confused with the also named CPD Carnet used to temporarily import motor vehicles into foreign countries.

Territory issuing CPD China-Taiwan Carnets[110] National Guaranteeing Association Website
Chinese Taipei Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) https://en.taitra.org.tw/ Archived 19 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine
Countries/territories which have signed a CPD China-Taiwan agreement Signing date Operational
Australia 21 December 1995 Yes
Canada 10 November 1994 Yes
El Salvador 24 August 2001 No
European Union 20 March 1991 Yes
India 20 March 2013 Yes
Israel 10 July 2003 Yes
Japan 21 May 2001 Yes
Malaysia 5 July 2004 Yes
New Zealand 2 December 1993 Yes
Norway 13 March 2000 Yes
Philippines 19 August 1998 No
Singapore 9 April 1990 Yes
South Africa 7 August 1991 Yes
South Korea 28 November 1990 Yes
 Switzerland 15 July 1993 Yes
United States 25 June 1996 Yes
Vietnam 6 June 2009 No

See also

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