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Agreement name:	ASEAN - Australia - New Zealand
Coverage:	Goods & Services	Type:	Free Trade Agreement & Economic Integration Agreement
Status:	In Force	Notification under:	GATT Art. XXIV & GATS Art. V
Date of signature:	27-Feb-2009	Date of notification:	08-Apr-2010
Date of entry into force:	01-Jan-2010	End of implementation period:	2025
Remarks:	Dates of entry into force: 01-Jan-2010 for Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore and Viet Nam; 12-Mar-2010 for Thailand; 01-Jan-2011 for Lao PDR; 04-Jan-2011 for Cambodia; 10-Jan-2012 for Indonesia.
Current signatories:	Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Myanmar; Cambodia; Indonesia; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Philippines; Singapore; Viet Nam; Thailand; New Zealand
Original signatories:	Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Myanmar; Cambodia; Indonesia; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Philippines; Singapore; Viet Nam; Thailand; New Zealand
RTA Composition:	Plurilateral; One Party is an RTA
Region:	Oceania; East Asia
All Parties WTO members?	Yes	Cross-Regional:	Yes

Related agreements

ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)

Official Web Address

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Australia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
New Zealand, Foreign Affairs & Trade

Text of the agreement

Text of the agreement	E

Annexes & related documents

Annexes	E

Consideration status (G):

Factual Presentation issued

Consideration status (S):

Factual Presentation issued

Date of Consideration (G):

23-Sep-2014

Date of Consideration (S):

23-Sep-2014

Early announcement

Date negotiations commenced:	20-Mar-2005

Related documents

Document series: WT/REG284

Document type	Symbol	Language
Notification (G)	WT/REG284/N/1	E F S
Notification (G)	WT/REG284/N/2	E F S
Notification (S)	S/C/N/545	E F S
Notification (S)	S/C/N/545/Add.1	E F S
Factual Presentation (G&S)	WT/REG284/1/Rev.1	E F S
Questions and Replies	WT/REG284/2	E F S
Questions and Replies / Addendum	WT/REG284/2/Add.1	E F S
Note on the Meeting of the CRTA	WT/REG284/M/1	E F S
Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG284/N/1/Add.1	E F S

Document type	Language
Factual Presentation (G & S)	E F S

RTA Provisions Glossary

For details on these provisions, please consult the Glossary.

Last modified on: 14/05/2019

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)
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (SPS)
	Technical regulations, standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TBT Agreement
		Transparency obligations (TBT)
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Goods)
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO Safeguard Agreement
		Exclusion of an RTA party in global safeguard action
		RTA-specific safeguard measures permitted in the transition period or shortly thereafter
	Balance-of-payments measures (Goods)
	Subsidies (Goods)
		Prohibition of agricultural export subsidies
	Denial of benefits
	Services
		Positive list (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


	Domestic Regulation
	Mutual Recognition
	Safeguard Mechanisms (Services)
	Balance-of-payments measures (Services)
	Subsidies (Services)
	Movement of Natural Persons
	Sector-specific chapter/section or other legal instrument (Services)
	General Exceptions
	Security Exceptions
	Dispute Settlement (DS)
		Ad hoc Adjudicative Process
		Choice of forum
		Exclusive use of forum chosen
	Intellectual property rights
		Specifically reaffirms or incorporates WTO TRIPS Agreement
		Copyrights and neighbouring rights
		Patent
		Trademarks
		Geographical Indications (GIs)
		Traditional Knowledge
		Enforcement
	Competition
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (Competition)
	Environment
		No relaxation of environmental laws
		Public participation / consultations provisions
	Labour
		No relaxation of labour laws
	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
		Cooperation
	E-Commerce
		Consumer protection provisions
		Paperless trading or e-signatures
		Dispute Settlement not applicable (E-Commerce)

Document title
ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand (Services)
Australia
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar
New Zealand
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Viet Nam

Notification of changes

Parties concerned:	Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)	Changes affect:	Goods
Date of signature of changes:	26-Aug-2014	Date of notification of changes	04-May-2026
Date of entry into force of changes:	01-Oct-2015
Remarks:	Date(s) of entry into Force/provisional-application: In accordance with Article 5 on Entry into Force of the First Protocol to Amend the Agreement Establishing the AANZFTA: - 1 October 2015 for Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, and Viet Nam. - 2 October 2015 for Thailand. - 9 December 2015 for Malaysia. - 15 December 2015 for Lao PDR. - 11 January 2016 for Cambodia. - 1 March 2019 for Indonesia. Brief description of the changes: The First Protocol streamlines the AANZFTA's rules and does not introduce new market access commitments. Key amendments introduced by the Protocol include: - Modification of the Rules of Origin: Simplification of the Product Specific Rules (PSRs) by consolidating them into a single, comprehensive list and updating them to the Harmonized System (HS) 2012 nomenclature. - Streamlining of Certification Procedures: Update the Operational Certification Procedures for the Rules of Origin of the Agreement to make it more trade facilitative, including but not limited to the removal of the requirement to reflect the FOB value in the Certificate of Origin in cases where the regional value content criteria is not used. - Establishment of procedures to expedite future transpositions of the tariff commitments to be in line with HS Code amendments: These include timely circulation of a draft schedule with detailed two-way concordance at the national tariff line level, opportunities for comments and consultations, timely public release, and consideration of technical assistance.

Related documents

Notification of changes (G)	WT/REG284/N/1/Add.1	E F S

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