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The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) is a 2004 agreement that created a free-trade area of 1.6 billion people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with the vision of increasing economic cooperation and integration.
Initially, privatisation is met with extreme employee industrial action for several months. Once the employee unrest dwindled, the company entered into an agreement with CEAT to set up a joint venture in 1993. In 1994, Kelani Tyres was listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. In 2022, CEAT was amongst the 100 most valuable brands in Sri Lanka.
Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) PTA Bangladesh, China, Laos, Mongolia, South Korea, Sri Lanka 1975 ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement: CECA ASEAN: 13 August 2009 1 January 2010 [7] ASEAN-India Trade in Services Agreement: November 2014 1 July 2015 [7] [19] ASEAN-India Investment Agreement: November 2014 1 July 2015 [7] [19]
Debt-stricken Sri Lanka signed a trade pact with Thailand on Saturday in a bid to boost trade and investment as the Indian ocean island nation is struggling to recover from its worst economic ...
Vietnam free trade agreement [3] China trade and economic agreement; Iran free trade agreement [4] Serbia free trade agreement [5] Singapore free trade agreement [6] European Union Armenia qualifies to export its products under the EU's Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Georgia [7] Ukraine [8]
The purpose of the loan scheme was to encourage the local production, regional development and to boost the revenue streams of the small and medium businesses in Sri Lanka, especially with the aim of withstanding foreign competitors and to elevate import substitution strategies in order to expand the Gross Domestic Product and economic growth ...
The OED records the use of the phrase "free trade agreement" with reference to the Australian colonies as early as 1877. [9] After the WTO's World Trade Organization - which has been considered by some as a failure for not promoting trade talks, but a success by others for preventing trade wars - states increasingly started exploring options to conclude FTAs.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas. According to its preamble, its purpose was the "substantial reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers and the elimination ...