1) the name of the competent authority issuing the notification; The FTA Toolkit provides a comparative analysis of free trade agreements concluded side by side. It compares certain chapters of free trade agreements, such as access to the goods market, trade facilitation, trade, public procurement and dispute resolution. (iv) within thirty days of receiving the statement referred to in point (i), the notifying party may refuse preferential tariff treatment to the products mentioned in the AIFTA certificate of origin that would have been the subject of the audit visit; and (a) measures to ensure the preservation of products in good condition during transport and storage (e.g.B. drying, freezing, soletting, ventilation, dusting, refrigeration, salting, sulphur dioxide or other watery solutions, removal of damaged parts and similar operations); At the international level, there are two self-service access databases that have been developed by international organizations for policy makers and businesses: it is pointed out that there is a difference in treatment between inputs within and outside a free trade agreement with regard to the qualification of the criteria of origin. Inputs originating from a foreign party are normally considered to originate from the other party when they are included in the manufacturing process of that other party. Sometimes the production costs generated by one party are also considered to be those of another party. Preferential rules of origin generally provide for such a difference in treatment in determining accumulation or accumulation. This clause also explains the impact of a free trade agreement on the creation and diversion of trade, since a party to a free trade agreement is encouraged to use inputs from another party to allow its products to originate. [22] There are significant differences between unions and free trade zones. Both types of trading blocs have internal agreements that the parties enter into to liberalize and facilitate trade between them. The key difference between unions and free trade zones is their approach to third parties [lack of ambiguity needed]. While a customs union requires all parties to apply and maintain identical external tariffs on trade with non-parties, parties to a free trade area are not subject to such a requirement. Instead, they can set and maintain any customs regime for imports from non-parties, as they see as necessary.

[3] In a free trade area without harmonized external tariffs, the parties will adopt a system of preferential rules of origin to eliminate the risk of trade diversion [necessary ambiguities]. [4] It is also important to note that a free trade agreement is a reciprocal agreement that is authorized by GATT Article XXIV. Autonomous trade agreements for developing and least developed countries are permitted by the 1979 decision by the signatories of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (“empowerment clause”) on differentiated and more favourable treatment, reciprocity and increased participation of developing countries. It forms the legal basis for the WTO`s Generalized Preference System (GSP). [13] Free trade agreements and preferential trade agreements (as mentioned by the WTO) are considered an exception to the MFN principle. [14] The trade agreement database provided by the ITC market access map.