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Agreement name:	ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)
Coverage:	Goods	Type:	Free Trade Agreement
Status:	Inactive	Notification under:	Enabling Clause
Date of signature:	28-Jan-1992	Date of notification:	30-Oct-1992
Date of entry into force:	01-Jan-1993	End of implementation period:	2018
Remarks:	Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA).	Inactive Date:	17-May-2010
Current signatories:
Original signatories:	Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; Indonesia; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Myanmar; Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; Viet Nam
RTA Composition:	Plurilateral
Region:	East Asia
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	No

Related agreements

Official Web Address

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E

Consideration status:	Report adopted

Related documents

Document series:

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification	L/4581	E
Notification	WT/COMTD/RTA21/N/1	E F S
Agreement / CEPT	L/7111	E
Report	BISD 26S/321 (L/4735)	E
Notification / Inactive Agreements	WT/COMTD/RTA21/N/1/Add.1	E F S

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 06/12/2019

Topics
	All tariffs eliminated at end of implementation by at least one Party
	Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQ)
	All quantitative import restrictions prohibited
	Rules of Origin (RoO)
		Change of Tariff Classification Criteria (CTC)
		Regional Value Content Criteria (RVC)
		Other Criteria(s)
		De minimis rules
		Cumulation among Parties
	All Export restrictions, including quantitative restrictions, prohibited
	Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO SPS Agreement
		Transparency obligations (SPS)
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TBT Agreement
		Transparency obligations (TBT)
		Mandatory recognition of conformity assessment results
		Harmonization/alignement of TBT measures at the bilateral/regional level
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Safeguard Agreement
		RTA-specific safeguard measures always permitted
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Anti-Dumping measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Anti-Dumping
	Countervailing measures
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing measures
	MFN Clause/Preferences extended from other RTAs (Goods)
	Denial of benefits


	Services
		MFN provision (Services)
	Rendez-Vous/Review/Evolutionary clause (services)
	Investment Liberalization Provisions
		National Treatment with regard to the entry of investment (establishment)
		Investment liberalization
	Other Investment Provisions
		Investment Protection
		Investment Promotion
		Investor to State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) included
	Provisions on capital transfers
	Mutual Recognition
	Movement of Natural Persons
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Services)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Accession
		Accession open to some third parties only
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
	Intellectual property rights