European Union free trade agreements

EU Free trade agreements

The European Union has concluded free trade agreements (FTAs)^[1] and other agreements with a trade component with many countries world-wide and is negotiating with many others.^[2]

Free trade agreements in force

State	Date	Notes	Relations
Albania	2009	SAA	Candidate for EU accession
Algeria	2005	AA
Andorra	1991	Customs Union	Andorra–EU relations
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2008	SAA	Potential candidate for EU accession
CARIFORUM States	2008	EPA (Provisionally applied from 2008)
Central America	2012	AA (Provisionally applied from 2013)
Chile	2003	AA
Colombia	2011[3]	FTA effective from August 2013[4]
Egypt	2004	AA
Faroe Islands	1997	autonomous entity of Denmark	Faroe Islands-EU relations
Georgia	2014	AA & DCFTA (Provisionally applied from 2014)	Georgia–EU relations
Iceland	1973	EEA since 1994	Negotiating for EU accession
Iraq	2012	PCA (Provisionally applied from 2012)
Israel	2000	AA	Israel–EU relations
Jordan	2002	AA	Jordan–EU relations
Lebanon	2003	AA (FTA provisions in force since 2003)	Lebanon–EU relations
Liechtenstein	1973	EEA since 1995	Liechtenstein–EU relations
Republic of Macedonia	2004	SAA	Candidate for EU accession
Mexico	2000	FTA	Mexico–EU relations
Moldova	2014	AA & DCFTA (Provisionally applied from 2014)	Moldova–EU relations
Montenegro	2010	SAA	Negotiating for EU accession
Morocco	2000	AA	Morocco–EU relations
Norway	1973	EEA since 1994	Norway–EU relations
Palestinian Authority	1997	AA	Palestine–EU relations
Peru	2011[3]	FTA effective from March 2013[4]
San Marino	1992	Customs Union	San Marino–EU relations
Serbia	2010	SAA	Negotiating for EU accession
South Africa	2000	ATDC	South Africa–EU relations
South Korea	2010	FTA. Provisionally applied from 1 July 2011	South Korea–EU relations
Syria	1978	Co-operation Agreement
Switzerland	1973	FTA	Switzerland–EU relations
Tunisia	1998	AA
Turkey	1995	Customs Union	Negotiating for EU accession
Ukraine	2014	AA & DCFTA (Provisionally applied from 2014)	Ukraine–EU relations

Pending

Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) are being implemented for ACP countries.

State	Signed	Notes	Relations
Cameroon	2009	EPA
Ivory Coast	2009	EPA

Negotiating

• India Negotiations initiated in 2007 on EU-India Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement are stalled as of March 2015.^[5][6][7]
• ASEAN countries – now being pursued individually
• Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates)
• Russia (details)
• Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela)
• Japan (Japan–EU relations)
• Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (United States–EU relations)
• The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) is a trade agreement currently being negotiated by 23 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), including the EU.^[8]

Concluded negotiations

Singapore and European Union concluded their Free Trade negotiations on 17 December 2012.^[9] They will sign the agreement after all translations and verifications are completed.

The negotiators of the Commission and of Canada finalised their work about CETA in early August 2014.^[10]

See also

• Free trade area
• List of free trade agreements
• List of bilateral free trade agreements
• EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements
• European Union Association Agreement
• United States free trade agreements
• Euro-Mediterranean free trade area
• Free trade areas in Europe
• List of the largest trading partners of the European Union

References

External links

• Free Trade Agreements, International affairs, European Commission
• Articles on EU FTAs, at Agritrade
• The Transatlantic Colossus: Global Contributions to Broaden the Debate on the EU-US Free Trade Agreement A collaborative publication with over 20 articles on the global implications of the TAFTA | TTIP
• Koeth, Wolfgang (8 December 2014) “The Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements: an Appropriate Response by the EU to the Challenges in its Neighbourhood”?

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