List of multilateral free trade agreements
A multilateral free trade agreement is between several countries all treated equally, and creates a free trade area. Every customs union, common market, economic union, customs and monetary union and economic and monetary union is also a free trade area, and are not included below.
World Trade Organization agreements
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1994
- *Agreement on Agriculture
- *Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
- *Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
- *Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures
- *Agreement on Anti-Dumping
- *Agreement on Customs Valuation
- *Agreement on Preshipment Inspection
- *Agreement on Rules of Origin
- *Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures
- *Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
- *Agreement on Safeguards
- *Agreement on Trade Facilitation
- General Agreement on Trade in Services
- Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
- Dispute Settlement Understanding
- Trade Policy Review Mechanism
- Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft
- Agreement on Government Procurement
- Arrangement regarding Bovine Meat, this agreement was terminated end 1997.
- International Dairy Agreement, this agreement was terminated end 1997.
- Information Technology Agreement
- Bali Package
Active agreements
- European Union Customs Union - 1958
- European Free Trade Association - 1960
- Andean Community - 1969
- Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement - 1975
- Southern African Development Community Free Trade Area - 1980
- Gulf Cooperation Council - 1981
- Southern Common Market - 1991
- ASEAN Free Trade Area - 1992
- Central European Free Trade Agreement - 1992
- Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation - 1992
- Central American Integration System - 1993
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa - 1994
- European Economic Area - 1994
- G-3 Free Trade Agreement - 1995
- International Grains Agreement - 1995
- Greater Arab Free Trade Area - 1997
- Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement - 2004
- South Asian Free Trade Area - 2004
- East African Community - 2005
- ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Area - 2010
- Pacific Alliance Free Trade Area - 2012
- Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - 2018
- African Continental Free Trade Area - 2019
- United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement - 2020
- Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership - 2022
Post-Soviet States only
- Commonwealth of Independent States Agreement on the Establishment of a Free Trade Area - Multilateral Free Trade Area established on 24 November 1999 - multilateral free trade regime is in force among 10 countries as of 2023
- Eurasian Customs Union of the Eurasian Economic Union - 2010 as EurAsEC Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus - 5 countries as of 2023
- Commonwealth of Independent States Free Trade Area - 2011 - among 9 countries as of 2023
- GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development FTA - unclear application, the WTO was notified in only 2017 - multilateral free trade regime among 4 countries
Proposed agreements
- African Free Trade Zone between SADC, EAC and COMESA
- Arab Maghreb Union
- Association of Caribbean States
- Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation
- Canada, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom Union
- China–Japan–South Korea Free Trade Agreement
- Community of Sahel-Saharan States
- Commonwealth Free Trade Area
- Economic Community of Central African States
- Economic Community of West African States
- Economic Partnership Agreements
- Euro-Mediterranean free trade area
- Free Trade Area of the Americas
- Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific, proposed APEC FTA
- Intergovernmental Authority on Development
- Open Balkan
- Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations
- 2021 Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement
- Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
- Transatlantic Free Trade Area
- Tripartite Free Trade Area
- Union of South American Nations
- Economic Cooperation Organization Trade Agreement
Obsolete agreements
- International Tin Agreement
- Caribbean Free Trade Association
- Association of Iron Ore Exporting Countries
- International Bauxite Association
- Multi Fibre Arrangement
- North American Free Trade Agreement
Abandoned agreement
- Trans-Pacific Partnership - signed 2016, signature withdrawn by the United States in 2017 thus rendering the agreement unratifiable.