1992 Framework Agreement on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation

AFTA Agreement

• ASEAN Documents
  • ASEAN Summit Documents
  • ASEAN Economic Community
    • ASEAN Free Trade Area

Article 9 ‘Settlement of Disputes’:

“1. Any differences between the Member States concerning the interpretation or application of this Agreement or any arrangements arising therefrom shall, as far as possible, be settled amicably between the parties. Whenever necessary, an appropriate body shall be designated for the settlement of disputes.”

This Agreement is one of the ‘Covered Agreements’ pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 2019 ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix 1. 

This Agreement was previously one of the ‘Covered Agreements’ pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 1996 Protocol on Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix 1, as well as one of the ‘Covered Agreements’ pursuant to Article 1.1 of the 2004 ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism read together with its Appendix I.”

The 2019 Protocol will only apply with respect to new requests for consultations made on or after its entry into force (20 June 2022). Likewise, the 2004 Protocol will only apply with respect to disputes that arose after its entry into force (29 November 2004). The 1996 Protocol applies to all other disputes.

Secretary-General of the ASEAN Secretariat

ASEAN Legal Instruments

28/01/1992

Article 14 ‘Entry into Force’: “1. This Agreement shall be effective upon signing.”

2013 Protocol to Amend Certain ASEAN Economic Agreements Related to Trade in Goods

1995 Protocol to Amend the Framework Agreement on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation

2009 ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement

2009 ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Inter-State Transport

1992 Singapore Declaration

1992 Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area

1977 Agreement on the ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangements

ASEAN Secretariat accessed on 19/08/2022

Note Article 10.2 ‘Supplementary Agreements or Arrangements’:

“Appropriate ASEAN economic agreements or arrangements, arising from this Agreement, shall form an integral part of this Agreement.”

Dates of accession given above were obtained from the ASEAN Secretariat’s Legal Instruments website and its electronic collection of instruments of ratification, accession and notification. The dates given appear to be the dates of execution of the instruments of ratification/accession, rather than their date of receipt by the depository.