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The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) is a 2004 agreement that created a free-trade area of 1.6 billion people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with the vision of increasing economic cooperation and integration.
The SAFTA Agreement was signed on 6 January 2004 during Twelfth SAARC Summit held in Islamabad, Pakistan. [70] The Agreement entered into force on 1 January 2006, and the Trade Liberalization Programme commenced from 1 July 2006. [71] Under this agreement, SAARC members will bring their duties down to 20 percent by 2009.
GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development (GUAM) FTA [11] [12] - unclear application, the WTO was notified in only 2017 - multilateral free trade regime among 4 countries (International Trade Centre says there is no free trade area in operation with distinct rules from an Agreement on Creation of CIS Free Trade Area, was signed ...
A free trade agreement (FTA) also involves reducing or eliminating tariffs on items traded between the partner countries; however each maintains individual tariff structure for non-members. The key difference between an FTA and a PTA is that PTAs have a positive list of products on which duty is to be reduced, while an FTA uses a negative list ...
The term free trade area was originally meant by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT 1994) to include only trade in goods. [4] An agreement with a similar purpose, i.e., to enhance liberalization of trade in services, is named under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) as an "economic integration agreement ...
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Offshore outsourcing; Offshoring; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Outsourcing; Purchasing power parity (PPP) Rules of origin; Safeguard; South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) Special drawing rights (SDRs) Special ...
see Australia–Korea Free Trade Agreement: 11 Canada 28 July 2005 22 September 2014 1 January 2015 see Canada–Korea Free Trade Agreement: 12 China 14 May 2012 1 June 2015 20 December 2015 see China–South Korea Free Trade Agreement: 13 New Zealand 8 June 2009 23 March 2015 20 December 2015 14 Vietnam 6 August 2012 5 May 2015 20 December 2015
A free trade area is basically a preferential trade area with increased depth and scope of tariffs reduction. All free trade areas, customs unions, common markets, economic unions, customs and monetary unions and economic and monetary unions are considered advanced forms of a PTA, but these are not listed below.