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RTA Name
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Date of notification
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Data due
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Data received
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Factual Presentation sent to parties
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Status
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East African Community (EAC)[2] Enlargement (Goods)
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1.8.2012
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8.3.2013
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Necessary tariff and trade data received
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19.5.2014
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Comments are yet to be received from the Partner
States to finalize the Factual Presentation
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Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA)[3] (Goods)
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28.8.2008
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19.7.2022
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Awaiting data from the PICTA Parties
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South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA)[4] (Goods)
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21.4.2008
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10.8.2009
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Data received from India and Bangladesh
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Awaiting data from the other Contracting
States to SAFTA
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SAFTA‑Accession of Afghanistan (Goods)
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29.7.2016
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22.12.2016
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Tariff and trade data received from India; trade
data received from Sri Lanka
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Awaiting tariff and trade data from the other Contracting
States to SAFTA; awaiting tariff data from Sri Lanka
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[1] This document has been prepared under the Secretariat's own
responsibility and is without prejudice to the positions of Members or to their
rights and obligations under the WTO.
[2] Partner States to the EAC are Burundi, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
[3] Parties to PICTA are Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Republic of
Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New
Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
[4] Contracting States to SAFTA are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.