26 2. Products benefiting from special economic arrangements or zones shall be subject to any regulations that shall be developed by the Council of Ministers. Regulations under this paragraph shall be in support of the continental industrialisation programmes. 3. The trade of products manufactured in special economic arrangements or zones within the AfCFTA shall be subject to the provisions of Annex 2 on Rules of Origin. Article 24 Infant Industries 1. For the purposes of protecting an infant industry having strategic importance at the national level, a State Party may, provided that it has taken reasonable steps to overcome the difficulties related to such infant industry, impose measures for protecting such an industry. Such measures shall be applied on a non-discriminatory basis and for a specified period of time. 2. Council of Ministers shall adopt guidelines for implementation of this Article as an integral part of this Protocol. Article 25 Transparency and Notification requirements for State Trading Enterprises 1. In order to ensure the transparency of the activities of State Trading Enterprises (STE), State Parties shall notify such enterprises to the Secretariat for transmission to other State Parties. 2. For the purpose of this Article, STE refers to governmental, nongovernmental enterprises, including Marketing boards, which have been granted exclusive or special rights or privileges, including statutory or constitutional powers, in the exercise of which they influence through their purchases or sales the level or direction of imports or exports with reference to provisions of Article XVII of GATT 1994. PART VIII EXCEPTIONS Article 26 General Exceptions Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination