Key Documents
The Trade Facilitation stipulated in Chapter 5 of the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA).
The key documents of the ASEAN Trade Facilitation are as follows:
- Follow-up ASEAN Seamless Trade Facilitation Indicators
- ASEAN Trade Facilitation Framework;
- AEC 2025 Trade Facilitation Strategic Action Plan;
- Guidelines for the Implementation of ASEAN Commitments on Non-Tariff Measures on Goods;
- Essential Goods:
- Memorandum of Understanding on the Implementation of Non-Tariff Measures on Essential Goods under the Hanoi Plan of Action on Strengthening ASEAN Economic Cooperation and Supply Chain Connectivity in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic_152 TLs_13 November 2021
- Press Release on the endorsement of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Implementation of Non-Tariff Measures on Essential Goods under the Hanoi Plan of Action on Strengthening ASEAN Economic Cooperation and Supply Chain Connectivity in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
- The Expanded List of 107 Additional Essential Goods
- Press Release on the Expanded List of 107 Additional Essential Goods
- Press Release on the Extension of the validity of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Implementation of Non-Tariff Measures on Essential Goods under the Hanoi Plan of Action on Strengthening ASEAN Economic Cooperation and Supply Chain Connectivity in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic until November 2024.
- ASEAN-Wide Self-Certification (AWSC) Guidebook
- Towards Seamless Trade Facilitation in ASEAN (Result from the ASEAN Seamless Trade Facilitation Indicators (ASTFI) Baseline Study);
- Non-Tariff Measures Cost-Effectiveness Toolkit, Handbook for ASEAN, Adapted from UNCTAD’s ‘Non-Tariff Measures Cost-Effectiveness Toolkit’.
- Press Release on the Negotiations to upgrade the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement
- Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2021: Based on the United Nations Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation
- Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2023: Based on the United Nations Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation
- Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2025: Based on the United Nations Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation