List of free trade agreements
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This is list of free trade agreements and free trade areas between one or more countries and/or trade blocs. For list of the blocs themselves see List of trade blocs.
Every Customs Union, Common market and Economic and monetary union has also a Free Trade Area and these are listed in their respective articles.
Preferential Trade Arrangements (PTAs) and other types of trade pacts are listed in their respective articles.
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[edit] World Trade Organization agreements
- Agreement on Agriculture
- Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
- Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
- Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
- General Agreement on Trade in Services
[edit] Multilateral agreements
List of agreements with more than two states and/or blocs involved.
[edit] Regional agreements
List of multilateral agreements between states and/or blocs in the same geographic region.
- Agadir Agreement between Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan
- ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) with Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Central American Common Market (CACM) between Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua
- Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) between the U.S., Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic
- Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) between Croatia and the Republic of Macedonia
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) between Burundi, Djibouti, Egypt, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe
- European Free Trade Association (EFTA) between Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein
- Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) Between Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, the "State of Palestine", Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the UAE and Yemen
- G-3 Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela (Venezuela has reported that it intends to pull out of the agreement [1]).
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, U.S. and Mexico
- South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) between India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives
[edit] Proposed regional agreements
List of agreements currently in negotiations. Agreements that are so far only discussed without any formal action by the parties involved are not listed.
- Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) + 3 (People's Republic of China, South Korea, and Japan) Free Trade Area
- Canada Central American Free Trade Agreement
- Enlargement of Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) with all countries on the Balkans and Southeast Europe (merging of the current bilateral FTAs into CEFTA, including their more advanced provisions)
- Lebanon joining the Agadir Agreement
- Faroe Islands (autonomous entity of Denmark) joining European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
- People's Trade Treaty between Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela
- GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development Free Trade Area between Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova
- FTA of Bay of Bengal Initiative for MultiSectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)
- Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) among members of APEC
- Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) between United States and the European Union
[edit] Defunct regional agreements
- Baltic Free Trade Area (BAFTA), members (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) moved to the European Union
[edit] Plurilateral agreements
List of multilateral agreements between states and/or blocs of different geographic regions.
- Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (P4) between Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei
[edit] Proposed plurilateral agreements
List of agreements currently in negotiations. Agreements that are so far only discussed without any formal action by the parties involved are not listed.
- Middle East Free Trade Area (US-MEFTA)
- Euro-Mediterranean free trade area (EU-MEFTA)
[edit] Bilateral agreements
List of agreements between two states, two blocs or a bloc and a state.
- The US has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Australia/U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement (signed and ratified 2004; implemented 2005)
- Bahrain/US-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (signed 2004; ratified 2005; implemented 2006)
- Chile/US-Chile Free Trade Agreement (signed and ratified 2003; implemented 2004)
- Israel/US-Israel Free Trade Agreement (signed, ratified and implemented 1985. The Palestinian Authority is also participating.)
- Jordan/US-Jordan Free Trade Agreement (signed 2000, ratified and implemented 2001)
- South Korea/U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (Agreement reached on 2 April 2007, the parties must still finalize the text and ratify the Agreement)
- Morocco/US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement (signed and ratified 2004, implemented 2006)
- Oman/US-Oman Free Trade Agreement (signed and ratified 2006)
- Singapore/US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (signed and ratified 2003, implemented 2004)
- Japan has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Mexico has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Costa Rica has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs
- Chile has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:[1]
- Free trade agreement:
- Canada (came into force on July 5, 1997)
- Mexico (August 1, 1999)
- Central America: Costa Rica (February 14, 2002) and El Salvador (June 3, 2002)
- United States (January 1, 2004)
- South Korea (April 1, 2004)
- European Free Trade Association (December 1, 2004)
- People's Republic of China (October 1, 2006)
- Panama (unratified; signed on June 27, 2006)
- Peru (unratified; signed on August 22, 2006)
- Colombia (unratified; signed on November 27, 2006)
- Economic association agreement:
- Economic complementation agreement:
- Limited coverage agreement:
- Free trade agreement:
- Singapore has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Australia
- Chile
- India
- Jordan
- New Zealand (separate from the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (see above) and is still in force)
- Panama
- South Korea
- the EFTA
- Panama has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Dominican Republic has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Turkey has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Israel has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- The People's Republic of China has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- The Republic of China (Taiwan) has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Thailand has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Lebanon has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
- Iraq
- The European Union
- Jordan has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Georgia has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Kazakhstan (Entry into force: 16 July 1999)
- Russian Federation (Entry into force: 10 May 1994)
- Turkmenistan (Entry into force: 1 January 2000)
- Ukraine
- Armenia has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Kazakhstan (Entry into force: 25 December 2001)
- Kyrgyz Republic (Entry into force: 27 October 1995)
- Moldova (Entry into force: 21 December 1995)
- Russian Federation (Entry into force: 25 March 1993)
- Turkmenistan (Entry into force: 7 July 1996)
- Ukraine
- Kyrgyz Republic has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Kazakhstan (Entry into force: 11 November 1995)
- Moldova (Entry into force: 21 November 1996)
- Russian Federation (Entry into force: 24 April 1993)
- Ukraine (Entry into force: 19 January 1998)
- Uzbekistan (Entry into force: 20 March 1998)
- Faroe Islands has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Switzerland
- Norway
- Iceland (the Hoyvík Agreement)
- The European Union
- Canada - Costa Rica
- Australia - New Zealand (under the CER)
- South Korea has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- The EU has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Algeria European Union Association Agreement
- Chile
- Croatia Stabilisation and Association Agreement
- Egypt European Union Association Agreement
- Macedonia Stabilisation and Association Agreement
- Morocco European Union Association Agreement
- Palestinian Authority European Union Association Agreement
- South Africa
- Switzerland
- Tunisia European Union Association Agreement
- EFTA has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Andean Community - MERCOSUR
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Matrix of FTAs in the Balkans, in the framework of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe:
- between each two of the following states (28 FTAs): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro
- UNMIK (as representative of Kosovo under Security Council resolution 1244) has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
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[edit] Proposed bilateral agreements
List of agreements currently in negotiations. Agreements that are so far only discussed without any formal action by the parties involved are not listed.
- The US is negotiating or is planning bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Colombia / Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, in Colombia known as Tratado de Libre Comercio[2] (On 22 November 2006 deputy U.S. Trade Representative John Veroneau signed the Agreement on behalf of the United States[5]).
- Peru / Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (Peru ratified on 28th June 2006; awaiting US ratification).
- Panama (Agreement reached, awaiting ratification)[6]
- South Korea/U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (Agreement reached on 2 April 2007, the parties must still finalize the text and ratify the Agreement).
- Ghana
- Indonesia
- Kenya
- Kuwait (Expert-level trade talks held in February 2006).
- Malaysia (Fourth round of talks are scheduled for the week of 8 January 2007 in San Francisco).
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Thailand/US-Thailand Free Trade Agreement (Announced 2002. Negotiations on hold since January 2006).
- United Arab Emirates (5th round of talks are yet to be scheduled).
- Southern African Customs Union (Talks fell apart on 18 April 2006 due to US demands on intellectual property rights, government procurement rights and investment).
- Ecuador (Talks terminated by USA [7]).
- Qatar (Qatar halted talks stating that the US was imposing preconditions that were not in Qatar's interest as of 1 May 2006).
- Japan is negotiating bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Chile (signed on 27 March 2007, ratification to occur by September 2007).
- Indonesia (6th round of talks began on 10 October 2006)
- Brunei (1st round of talks in 26 June 2006)
- ASEAN
- Gulf Cooperation Council
- Vietnam (1st round of talks scheduled for January 2007)
- India (1st round of talks were held in New Dehli, and the 2nd round of talks are scheduled for Tokyo in April)[8]
- Australia (Conducting feasibility study as of 19 September 2006).
- South Korea (Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Minister for Trade - Free Trade Agreement Department) is negotiating or is planning bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Mexico (SECA 3th round of talks in 14~16 June 2006)
- Canada(9th round of talks in 29 January 2007)
- India (CEPA 5th round of talks in 10~12 January 2007)
- EU (preparation conference)
- MERCOSUR (preparation study)
- People's Republic of China (preparation study)
- ASEAN (16th round of talks in 31 January 2007)
- Japan (negotiations currently at standstill)
- Colombia is negotiating or is planning bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- People's Republic of China is negotiating or is planning bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Chile is negotiating or is planning bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Australia - Malaysia
- Australia - United Arab Emirates
- Australia - China (see: Australia-China Free Trade Agreement)
- Republic of China (Taiwan) - El Salvador
- Republic of China (Taiwan) - Dominican Republic
- Singapore - Bahrain
- Singapore - Canada
- Singapore - Egypt
- Singapore - Mexico
- Singapore - Pakistan
- Singapore - Panama
- Singapore - Peru
- Singapore - Sri Lanka
- Singapore - Kuwait
- Singapore - Qatar
- Singapore - United Arab Emirates
- Singapore - GCC
- Peru - Mexico
- Jordan - Iraq
- Jordan - Palestinian Authority
- GCC - EU
- GCC - Mercosur
- GCC - India
- GCC - Turkey
- ASEAN - India
- ASEAN - Australia and New Zealand
- EFTA - Algeria
- EFTA - Albania
- EFTA - MERCOSUR
- EFTA - GCC
- EFTA - Ukraine
- EFTA - Serbia and Montenegro
- EU is negotiating or is planning bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- Andean Community - India
- Croatia - UNMIK (as representative of Kosovo under Security Council resolution 1244)
- Bulgaria - UNMIK (as representative of Kosovo under Security Council resolution 1244)
- Romania - UNMIK (as representative of Kosovo under Security Council resolution 1244)
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) - Canada to be negotiated, after Canada finishes their Central American Free Trade Agreement agreement.
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) - EU (on-going negotiation on the EPA) ("Economic Partnership Agreement")
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) - MERCOSUR (Open for discussions in May 2005)
- Southern African Customs Union - Iceland (to be signed in November 2005 and to become active in the beginning of 2006).
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[edit] Defunct bilateral agreements
- Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (superseded by North American Free Trade Agreement)
- India - Sri Lanka (superseded by South Asia Free Trade Agreement)
- EU - Norway FTA (1973), now a member of the European Economic Area common market
- EU - Iceland FTA (1973), now a member of the EEA common market
- EU - Switzerland and Liechtenstein FTA (1973), Liechtenstein is now member of the EEA common market
- EU - Czech Republic EA (1995), now EU member
- EU - Estonia EA (1998), now EU member
- EU - Hungary EA (1994), now EU member
- EU - Latvia EA (1998), now EU member
- EU - Lithuania EA (1998), now EU member
- EU - Poland EA (1994), now EU member
- EU - Slovakia EA (1995), now EU member
- EU - Slovenia EA (1999), now EU member
- EU - Cyprus AA (1973), now EU member
- EU - Malta AA (1971), now EU member
- EU - Turkey AA (1964), superseded by EU-Turkey customs union
[edit] See also
- List of trade blocs
- Free trade area
- Trade bloc
- Trade pact
- Customs union
- Monetary union
- Common market
- Bilateral Investment Treaty
