What does AFTA stand for?

ASEAN Free Trade Area

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The GCC countries have signed initial agreements with Singapore, the ASEAN Free Trade Area and New Zealand, and candidate signatory countries includes South Korea and the European Union,' he added.

UAE mulls new laws to boost domestic trade

Creation of the ASEAN free trade area and its human rights body are the first steps toward the realization of an Asian community.

Japanese editorial excerpts -2-

If an ASEAN free trade area can be made to function strongly, then laggards like the Philippines and Laos and Cambodia can expect to benefit economically in the same way that Portugal, Spain and Greece have boomed since joining the EU.

Editorial: ASEAN summit

The ASEAN Free Trade Area allows British firms low-duty access to the regional market.

Opening the trade door to Thailand and beyond

These include expanding the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), the ASEAN Investment Area (AIA), the e-ASEAN initiative, as well as the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI).

ASEAN SEEKS FREE TRADE WITH JAPAN

Tan Sri Dato' Dr Lau Ban Tin, director of BIG Industries Bhd, told Malaysian businesses to react to the slowdown and to the future challenges of globalisation, the advent of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

CEOs debate Malaysian survival

Indonesia should enter the Asean Free Trade Area Agreement, which is to remove all trade barriers including those on oil products by 2015.

INDONESIA - The Gas Market

But Japanese firms, mainly in the general machinery and automotive sectors, are showing strong interest in investing in ASEAN as the group is moving toward the formation of an ASEAN Free Trade Area by 2002, it said.

Foreign investment in Japan doubled in FY 1999: JETRO