The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is the oldest customs union in the world, founded in 1910 and composed of a group of 5 countries, namely Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Eswatini (Swaziland) and South Africa. Five rounds of negotiations have taken place so far between 2007 and 2010. On 15 July 2020, a virtual meeting of senior officials was held. The two sides agreed to resume negotiations on the PTA between India and SACU as soon as possible. The two sides also agreed on timetables for the exchange of trade and customs data and on the presentation of revised modalities for the APT negotiations. As a result, further action is under way. EFTA[17] has concluded bilateral agreements with the following countries, including dependent territories, and blocs: Turkey has concluded bilateral and multilateral agreements with: THE India-Mauritius CECPA provides an institutional mechanism to promote and improve trade between the two countries. The CECPA between India and Mauritius covers 310 export items for India. With regard to trade in services, Indian service providers will have access to about 115 subsectors of the 11 major services sectors. Worldwide, there is duty-free trade between South Africa and the other four countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and eSwatini) that make up the South African Customs Union (SACU).
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Free Trade Agreement has enabled duty-free trade between 12 of the 15 members since 2012. The EU-South Africa Agreement on Trade and Development Cooperation, which entered into force in 2000, has become the cornerstone of the regional trade landscape as a progressive free trade agreement. South Africa has also negotiated agreements with the European Free Trade Association, the United Kingdom and Mercosur. Through SADC, South Africa concluded negotiations on Phase I of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement, which links SADC, the East African Community (EAC) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) into a free trade area. South Africa is also a member of the new African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). For fully multilateral agreements (not included below), see: List of multilateral free trade agreements. The Eurasian Economic Union composed of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan has the following free trade agreements, see below here. List of agreements between two states, two blocs or one bloc and one state. The People`s Republic of China has concluded bilateral trade agreements with the following blocs, countries and their two special administrative regions:[13] An interactive list of bilateral and multilateral free trade instruments is available on the TREND Analytics website. [59] This is a list of free trade agreements between two parties, where each party could be a country (or other customs territory), a trading bloc or an informal group of countries. List of agreements under negotiation. Agreements that have so far only been discussed without formal action by the parties concerned are not listed.
Switzerland (which has a customs union with Liechtenstein, which is sometimes included in the agreements) has bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:[41] As part of government policy, the South African government is seeking to further open its market in order to increase trade and develop more competitive domestic industries. However, in 2006, the South African government made exceptions to this approach to protect the labor-intensive apparel industry. In 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the South African authorities adopted an emergency measure to restrict the entire movement of goods and people. these have now been partially repealed. On 6 June 2003, India and South Africa signed an agreement with Brazil, known as the Brasilia Declaration, which establishes “South-South” cooperation based on the premise of the three nations as regional powers in South Asia, Southern Africa and South America. The declaration called for comprehensive tripartite cooperation in the strategic, trade and cultural fields, the development of a tripartite free trade agreement and a united front in negotiations with Western countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and called for un reform. Security Council and mutual support for the pursuit of a permanent membership with the right of veto. [10] [11] The IBSA Dialogue Forum was established to promote cooperation and consensus on trade, poverty reduction, intellectual property rights, social development, agriculture, climate change, culture, defence, education, energy, health, information society, science and technology, peaceful nuclear energy, tourism and transport. [10] [11] The fourth summit took place in BrasÃlia. The three countries have pledged to boost trilateral trade to $15 billion by 2010.
[12] The three countries also expanded their military cooperation and conducted joint naval exercises in 2008. [12] There is no trade agreement between India and the United States. In April 2018, the United States initiated a review of the eligibility of India`s compliance with the Market Access criteria of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and in March 2019 decided that India no longer met the criteria, thereby withdrawing India`s GSP status. The repeal of GSP benefits eliminated special tariff treatment for $5.6 billion of Indian exports to the United States in India`s export-oriented sectors such as pharmaceuticals, textiles, agricultural products and auto parts. The United States and India are continuing their discussions on trade issues. The department deals with the Sub-Saharan Africa region (East, West, Central and South region), which includes 48 countries in terms of trade promotion, policy, FTA/APT negotiations and other related activities. Note: Every customs union, every common market, every economic union, every customs and monetary union and every economic and monetary union is also a free trade area. Afghanistan has concluded bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs:[1] India is actively participating in regional and bilateral trade negotiations aimed at diversifying and expanding its export markets while ensuring access to raw materials, intermediate products and capital goods needed to promote domestic value-added production. .