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The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) [1] is a trade bloc agreement by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations supporting local trade and manufacturing in all ASEAN countries, and facilitating economic integration with regional and international allies.
[244] [246] Work for further integration continued, and the ASEAN Plus Three, [247] consisting of ASEAN, China, Japan, and South Korea, was created in 1997. ASEAN Plus Three [247] is a forum that functions as a coordinator of co-operation between the ASEAN and the three East Asian nations of China, South Korea, and Japan.
It generates 75 percent of South America's GDP and this makes MERCOSUR the fourth largest trade bloc in the world after the EU, NAFTA, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). [2] Since August 23, 2008, there exists another integration initiative, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). It includes all independent states of ...
Central American Integration System; CIVETS, six emerging markets countries: Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, and South Africa, a diverse and dynamic economy and a young, growing population; CLMV, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam in south east Asia, members of ASEAN
ASEAN professes non-alignment as an organization, yet China is the largest trading partner for many ASEAN economies. Chinese companies see Southeast Asia as a key growth driver, as growth in China ...
ASEAN (blue) and Timor-Leste (red) Flag of Timor-LesteThe accession of Timor-Leste to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a process that started following the independence of the country in 2002 when its leaders stated that it had made a "strategic decision" to become a member state of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the future. [1]
The 10 members of ASEAN are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea are “observer states.”
ASEAN–India Free Trade Area (AIFTA), in effect as of 1 January 2010 [9] ASEAN–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP), in effect as of 1 December 2008 [10] ASEAN–Korea Free Trade Area (AKFTA), in effect as of 1 January 2010 [11] ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Area , in effect as of 1 January 2010 [12]