1977 Agreement on the ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangements

1977 Agreement on PTA

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Chapter VII ‘Consultations’, Article 14:

“1. Each Contracting State shall accord adequate opportunity for consultations regarding such representations as may be made by another Contracting State/States with respect to any matter affecting the implementation of this Agreement. The Committee may, at the request of the Contracting State/States, consult with any other Contracting State/States with respect of any matter for which it has not been possible to find a satisfactory solution during previous consultations.

2. If any Contracting State should consider that any other Contracting State has not carried out its obligations under this Agreement so that it nullifies or impairs any benefit accruing to it, the affected Contracting State, with a view to the satisfactory adjustments of the matter, may make representations or proposals to the other Contracting State concerned which thus approached shall give due consideration to the proposals made to it.

3. If no satisfactory adjustment is effected between the Contracting States concerned within 60 days from the date on which such representation or request for consultation was made, the matter may be referred to the Committee which shall consult with the Contracting States concerned and arrive at a solution mutually acceptable to the States concerned. Where the circumstances are serious enough a Contracting State may temporarily suspend the application of the concession to the Contracting State/States concerned until a mutually satisfactory solution is arrived at. A Contracting State suspending the concession shall give written notification to the other Contracting States within 30 days prior to such action.”

This Agreement was 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. It 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.

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Annex 1 – Rules of Origin for the ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangements

Annex 2 – Operational Certification Procedures for the Rules of Origin of the ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangements

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25/08/1977

Chapter X, ‘Miscellaneous and Final Provisions’, Article 17.1:

“This Article shall enter into force on the 30th day after the deposit of the Fifth Instrument of Ratification.”

This Agreement and its Protocols have been superseded pursuant to Article 91(2) of the 2009 ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement read together with its Annex 11. See additional information below.

1995 Protocol to Amend the Agreement on ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangements

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

1987 Protocol on Improvements on Extension of Tariff Preferences under the ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangements

1992 Framework Agreement on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation

1988 Memorandum of Understanding – Brand-to-Brand Complementation on the Automotive Industry under the Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Complementation

1987 Memorandum of Understanding on Standstill and Rollback of Non-Tariff Barriers Among ASEAN Countries

1981 Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Complementation

1980 Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects

ASEAN Secretariat accessed on 18/07/2022

Note on date of termination of this agreement: This Agreement and its Protocols have been superseded pursuant to Article 91(2) of the 2009 ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement read together with its Annex 11.  Annex 11  was approved by the ASEAN Free Trade Area Council on 10 August 2011, but the Annex does not specify the date of termination of this agreement. It is unclear if the termination is retroactive to the date of entry into force of the 2009 ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement on 17 May 2010.

Note on ratification/accession dates: Dates of ratification and accession given above were obtained from the ARC-ASEAN Secretariat Resource Centre website and its electronic collection of instruments of ratification, accession and notification. Some of 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.