ASEAN Free-Trade Area Import Duties, Singapore

Syllabus of the Subject: ASEAN Free-Trade Area (AFTA). Tariff Liberalization.

Introduction to the ASEAN Free-Trade Area (AFTA);
Free Trade Agreement of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)
1. Tariff Liberalization;
2. Import Duties and Tariff Rate Quotas Elimination;
3. ASEAN Rules of origin;
4. Calculation of the Regional Value Content;
5. Non-tariff Measures;
6. Import Licensing Procedures;
7. Trade Facilitation;
8. Standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures;
9. Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.
Single Window of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN);
ASEAN Customs;
1. Customs Valuation.
Emergency situation.

ASEAN Free-Trade Area (AFTA)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Free-Trade Area

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ASEAN Free-Trade Area (AFTA)

The objective of the ASEAN Free-Trade Area is to reach free trade in products in the ASEAN Region to create a single market and production base for a deeper economic integration of the ASEAN economies towards the ASEAN Economic Community achievement by 2015.

The Agreement on Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free-Trade Area needs that the tariff rates levied on a huge range of foreign trade of products within the ASEAN Region be reduced to 5%.

Most of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is a free-trade area. Accounting for 96% of all the international trade of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the first six signatories of the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free-Trade Area (AFTA) have reduced their custom tariffs on the intra-regional trade to 5% for all the export products to the “Inclusion list” or removed them in total.

East-West Economic Corridor (Myanmar-Thailand-Laos-Vietnam)

The member economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should eliminate the import duties on all the export products traded between them by 2010 for the ASEAN-6 and by 2015, with flexibility to 2018, for CLMV (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.).

ASEAN-6: Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand;
CLMV: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

For ASEAN-6, by 1 January 2009 (Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand).

Import duties of at least 80% tariff lines are eliminated;
Import duties on all the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) products, as defined in the e-ASEAN Framework Agreement, are removed;
Import duties on all the Priority Integration Sectors products are at 0%;
Import duties on all the goods are equal to or less than 5%.

For Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, import duties on all the products are equal to or less than 5% by 2009.

For Cambodia, import duties of at least 80% of the tariff lines are equal to or less than 5% by 2009.

ASEAN Economic Community;
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the ASEAN Countries;
ASEAN Free Trade Agreements (FTA): ASEAN Free-Trade Area (AFTA), Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle, Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy, East ASEAN Growth Area, China, Canada, Australia-New Zealand, India, European Union, South Korea, Russia, United States, Pakistan, Japan...;
Singaporean Free Trade Agreements: APEC, Indian-Ocean Rim Association, Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Australia, China, Jordan, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, EFTA, United States...

Transport Corridors:

Nanning (China)-Singapore Economic Corridor, Road Transportation Course