The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN on 7 January 1984, followed by Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, Cambodia on 30 April 1999, and Timor-Leste on 26 October 2025 making up what is today the eleven Member States of ASEAN.
ASEAN organs always strive to achieve ASEAN’s goals and objectives, the Secretary-General of ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat shall be functioned as coordinating Secretariat to help facilitate effective decision-making withing and amongst ASEAN bodies. In addition, each Member State shall appoint a Permanent Representative to liaise with Secretary-General of ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat
ASEAN shall develop friendly relations and mutually beneficial dialogues, cooperation and partnerships with countries and sub-regional, regional and international organisations and institutions. This includes external partners, ASEAN entities, human rights bodies, non-ASEAN Member States Ambassadors to ASEAN, ASEAN committees in third countries and international organisations, as well as international / regional organisations.
The rodmap for an ASEAN Community (2009-2015) was declared by the leaders in 2009. The ASEAN Community, anchored on three community pillars: Political-Security Community, Economic Community, Socio-Cultural Community was launched in 2015. The ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together was introduced in 2015 as a Post-2015 Vision. It comprises the ASEAN Community Vision 2025, the ASEAN Political-Security Community Blueprint 2025, the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025 and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN on 7 January 1984, followed by Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, Cambodia on 30 April 1999, and Timor-Leste on 26 October 2025 making up what is today the eleven Member States of ASEAN.
ASEAN organs always strive to achieve ASEAN’s goals and objectives, the Secretary-General of ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat shall be functioned as coordinating Secretariat to help facilitate effective decision-making withing and amongst ASEAN bodies. In addition, each Member State shall appoint a Permanent Representative to liaise with Secretary-General of ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat
ASEAN shall develop friendly relations and mutually beneficial dialogues, cooperation and partnerships with countries and sub-regional, regional and international organisations and institutions. This includes external partners, ASEAN entities, human rights bodies, non-ASEAN Member States Ambassadors to ASEAN, ASEAN committees in third countries and international organisations, as well as international / regional organisations.
The rodmap for an ASEAN Community (2009-2015) was declared by the leaders in 2009. The ASEAN Community, anchored on three community pillars: Political-Security Community, Economic Community, Socio-Cultural Community was launched in 2015. The ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together was introduced in 2015 as a Post-2015 Vision. It comprises the ASEAN Community Vision 2025, the ASEAN Political-Security Community Blueprint 2025, the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025 and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025
1. The CEPT Scheme: Basic FeaturesQ1. What are the objectives of AFTA?The ultimate objective of AFIA is to increase ASEAN’s competitive edge as a production base geared for the world market. A critical step in this direction is the liberalization of trade in the region through the elimination of
This first issue of the AFTA Reader, a specialized quarterly publication of the ASEAN Secretariat on AFTA, marks a significant step in our joumey towards a free trade area by the year 2008. This publication will be our main vehicle for providing interested parties with updates on AFTA.Since the sta
The origin of the ASEANWEB goes as far back as the First Meeting of the Policy Exchange Mechanism (PEM) of the ASEAN Economic Ministers held in Chiangmai, Thailand on 25 September 1994.At the PEM, the Ministers felt it was important that exchange of information take place to facilitate trade and in
This Fourth Volume of’ the AFTA Reader focuses on the latest decisions on the CEPT Scheme for AFTA announced at the Fifth ASEAN Summit in December 1995 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Summit endorsed Member Countries’ revised ten-year tariff reduction schedules and announced various trade facilitatio
The 1992 CEPT Agreement had excluded unprocessed agricultural products from the CEPT Scheme. However, the 26th ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) Meeting in September 1994 decided to phase in unprocessed agricultural products into the CEPT Scheme.Categories of Unprocessed Agricultural ProductsUnprocess
As tariffs on intra-ASEAN trade are reduced under the CEPT Scheme for AFTA, attention is shifting towards the elimination of non-tariff barriers. The CEPT Agreement its elf calls for elimination of NTBs within a period of five years after the enjoyment of concessions applicable to CEPT products.The
Vietnam became A full member of ASEAN on 28 July 1995. With Vietnam’s Membership, ASEAN now represents a market of about 420 million people and a regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of over US $ 500 billion. ASEAN is also now a step closer toward having all ten Southeast Asian Countries in ASEA
In 1992 when ASEAN launched the CEPT Agreement for the ASEAN Free Trade Area, the time frame from achieving the free trade region was set at 15 years, i.e. from 1 January 1993 to 1 January 2008. However, in September 1994, the ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) agreed to reduce to reduce the time frame
One of the recent paradoxes in the world economy is the surge in the number of regional trade arrangements at the same time that there has been a renewal of faith in multilateralism. Thus while asserting the primacy of the principle of non-discrimination in trade relations, the global community has
