Full Text of ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA)
03/12/2010 4365Free Flow of Goods
Free flow of goods is one of the principal means by which the aims of a single market and production base can be achieved. A single market for goods (and services) will also facilitate the development of production networks in the region and enhance ASEAN’s capacity to serve as a global production centre or as a part of the global supply chain.
Through ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), ASEAN has achieved significant progress in the removal of tariffs. However, free flow of goods would require not only zero tariffs but the removal of non-tariff barriers as well. In addition, another major component that would facilitate free flow of goods is trade facilitation measures such as integrating customs procedures, establishing the ASEAN Single Window, continuously enhancing the Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) Rules of Origin including its Operational Certification Procedures, and harmonising standards and conformance procedures.
The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)
The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) has now been virtually established. ASEAN Member Countries have made significant progress in the lowering of intra-regional tariffs through the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme for AFTA.
ASEAN Member Countries have also resolved to work on the elimination of non-tariff barriers. A work programme on the elimination of non-tariff barriers, which includes, among others, the process of verification and cross-notification; updating the working definition of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs)/Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) in ASEAN; the setting-up of a database on all NTMs maintained by Member Countries; and the eventual elimination of unnecessary and unjustifiable non-tariff measures, is currently being finalized.
ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement
Protocol To Amend The Protocol To Provide Special Consideration For Rice And Sugar
ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement, Cha-am, Thailand, 26 February 2009 (Vietnamese) (English)
Annex 1 (List of Notifiable Measures)
Annex 2 (Tariff Schedules)
Annex 3 (Product Specific Rules)
Annex 3 Attachment 1 (Product Spesific Rules for Textile)
Annex 4 (ITA products in AHTN 2007)
Annex 5 (Principles and Guidelines for Calculating Regional Value Content on the ATIGA)
Annex 6 (Implementing Guidelines for Partial Cumulation under Article 30(2) on ASEAN Cumulative ROO)
Annex 7 (CO Form D and its Overleaf Notes)
Annex 8 (Operational Certification Procedures)
Annex 9 (List of SPS Measures)
Annex 10 (Contact Points Designated for the Implementation of the Chapter 8 on SPS Measures of the ATIGA)
Annex 11 (List of Superseded Agreements)
First Protocol amending ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), January 22, 2019 (English)
Common Effective Preferential Tariff - CEPT (now replaced by ATIGA)
Protocol to Provide Special Consideration for Rice and Sugar, 23 August 2007
Protocol on Notification Procedures, Makati, Philippines, 8 October 1998
ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Goods in Transit, Ha Noi, 16 December 1998
Protocol to Amend the Agreement on ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangement, Bangkok, 15 December 1995
Framework Agreements on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation, Singapore, 28 January 1992