Regional FTA
Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA)
The oldest preferential trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific (formerly the Bangkok Agreement), granting partial tariff preferences rather than full free trade.
- Abbreviation
- APTA
- Status
- In force
- Type
- Regional FTA
- Scope
- Trade in goods
- Signed
- Jul 1975
- In force since
- Jun 1976
- Member countries
- 7
Key features
- Elimination or reduction of import duties on most goods, phased in according to each party’s tariff schedule.