China–ASEAN Free Trade Area
The ASEAN–China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), also known as the China–ASEAN Free Trade Area is a free trade area among the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China. The initial framework agreement was signed on 4 November 2002 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with the intent on establishing a free trade area among the eleven nations by 2010. The free trade area came into effect on 1 January 2010. The ASEAN–China Free Trade Area is the largest free trade area in terms of population and third largest in terms of volume.
ASEAN members and the People's Republic of China had a combined nominal gross domestic product of approximately US$6 trillion in 2008. The free trade area had the third largest trade volume after the European Economic Area and the North American Free Trade Area.
Members of ASEAN have a combined population of more than 580 million and a combined economy larger than that of India.[8]Indonesia accounts for more than 40 percent of the region's population, and its people have voiced the greatest amount of opposition to the agreement. Several days following the implementation of the free trade area, it announced plans to renegotiate tariffs on 228 product categories. In exchange, Indonesia would accelerate implementation of the agreement on 153 categories.
China first proposed the idea of a free trade area in November 2000. It had overtaken the United States as the third largest trading partner of ASEAN, after Japan and the European Union, when the free trade area came into effect. Between 2003 and 2008, trade with ASEAN grew from US$59.6 billion to US$192.5 billion. It is also expected to become the world's largest exporter in 2010.
The framework agreement was signed on 4 November 2002 in Phnom Penh by eleven heads of government.
- Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei Darussalam
- Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia
- Megawati Sukarnoputri, President of Indonesia
- Bounnhang Vorachith, Prime Minister of Laos
- Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Than Shwe, Prime Minister of Myanmar
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines
- Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore
- Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand
- Phan Văn Khải, Prime Minister of Vietnam
- Zhu Rongji, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China
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