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The European Union has concluded free trade agreements (FTAs) [1] and other agreements with a trade component with many countries worldwide and is negotiating with many others. [2] The European Union negotiates free trade deals on behalf of all of its member states, as the member states have granted the EU has an "exclusive competence" to ...
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was created in 1960 by the outer seven (as a looser alternative to the then-European Communities) but most of its membership has since joined the Communities/EU leaving only four countries (Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein) still party to the treaty.
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]
A multilateral free trade agreement is between several countries all treated equally, and creates a free trade area.Every customs union, common market, economic union, customs and monetary union and economic and monetary union is also a free trade area, and are not included below.
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was created to allow European countries to partake in a free trade area with less integration as within the European Communities (later European Union). Most of the countries initially in EFTA have since joined the EU itself, so only four remain outside, Norway , Iceland , Liechtenstein and Switzerland .
The parties to the Agreement never started to agree on a common list of exemptions from the free trade regime, which, according to the terms of this international treaty, should have become an integral part of it. The free trade regime, which was fixed in bilateral free trade agreements, continued to operate between the Commonwealth partners.
Free trade agreements or free trade areas are listed as follows: List of multilateral free trade agreements; List of bilateral free trade agreements; See also.
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are a scheme to create a free trade area (FTA) between the European Union and other countries. They are a response to continuing criticism that the non-reciprocal and discriminating preferential trade agreements offered by the EU are incompatible with WTO rules.