European Union free trade agreements

EU Free trade agreements

  European Union

  Agreement in force

  Agreement provisionally applied

  Agreement signed, but not applied

  Agreement initialled, not signed

The European Union has concluded free trade agreements (FTAs)^[1] and other agreements with a trade component with many countries world-wide and is negotiating with many others.^[2]

Free trade agreements in force

State	Signed	Provisional Application	In Force	Notes	Relations
Akrotiri and Dhekelia	2003		2004[3]	Customs union
Albania	2006	2006[lower-alpha 1]	2009[4]	SAA	Candidate for EU accession
Algeria	2002		2005[5]	Euro-mediterranean AA
Andorra	1990		1991[6]	Customs union	Andorra–EU relations
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2008	2008[lower-alpha 1]	2015[7]	SAA	Potential candidate for EU accession
Chile	2002	2003	2005[8]	AA[9]
Egypt	2001		2004[10]	Euro-mediterranean AA
Faroe Islands	1996		1997[11]	Autonomous entity of Denmark	Faroe Islands-EU relations
Bailiwick of Guernsey	1972		1973[12]
Iceland	1992		1994[13]	EEA	Negotiating for EU accession
Isle of Man	1972		1973[12]	Customs union
Israel	1995	1996[lower-alpha 1][14]	2000[15]	Euro-Mediterranean AA	Israel–EU relations
Bailiwick of Jersey	1972		1973[12]	Customs union
Jordan	1997		2002[16]	Euro-Mediterranean AA	Jordan–EU relations
Kosovo	2015		2016[17]	SAA	Kosovo–EU relations
Lebanon	2002		2006[18]	Euro-Mediterranean AA	Lebanon–EU relations
Liechtenstein	1992		1995[13]	EEA	Liechtenstein–EU relations
Republic of Macedonia	2001	2001[lower-alpha 1]	2004[19]	SAA	Candidate for EU accession
Mexico	1997		2000[20]	FTA[21][22]	Mexico–EU relations
Monaco			1958	Franco-Monegasque Treaty (customs union)
Montenegro	2007	2008[lower-alpha 1]	2010[23]	SAA	Negotiating for EU accession
Morocco	1996		2000[24]	Euro-Mediterranean AA	Morocco–EU relations
Norway	1992		1994[13]	EEA	Norway–EU relations
EU's Overseas Countries and Territories	2001		2001[25][26]	Association of the OCTs with the EU
Palestinian Authority	1997		1997[27]	Euro-Mediterranean AA	Palestine–EU relations
San Marino	1991	1992[lower-alpha 2]	2002[28]	Customs union	San Marino–EU relations
Serbia	2008	2010[lower-alpha 1]	2013[29]	SAA	Negotiating for EU accession
South Africa	1999	2000[30]	2004[31]	ATDC[lower-alpha 3]	South Africa–EU relations
South Korea	2010	2011	2015[32]	FTA[33]	South Korea–EU relations
Switzerland	1972 1999		1973[34] 2002[35]	Trade agreement Bilateral I agreements	Switzerland–EU relations
Tunisia	1995		1998[36]	Euro-Mediterranean AA
Turkey	1995[lower-alpha 4]		1995[37]	Customs union	Negotiating for EU accession

Agreements provisionally applied

State	Signed	Provisional Application	Ratification	Notes	Relations
CARIFORUM States	2008	2008	27 / 43 [38]	EPA
Eastern and Southern Africa States  Comoros[lower-alpha 5]  Madagascar  Mozambique[lower-alpha 5]  Mauritius  Seychelles  Zambia[lower-alpha 5]  Zimbabwe	2009	2012	2 / 34 [39]	Interim Agreement for establishing a framework for an EPA
Central America  Costa Rica  Guatemala  Honduras  Nicaragua  Panama  El Salvador	2012	2013	22 / 34 [40]	AA
Colombia  Peru	2012[41]	2013	26 / 30 [42]	FTA[43]
Cameroon[lower-alpha 6]	2009	2014	14 / 29 [44]	Interim agreement with a view to an EPA
Georgia	2014	2014	30 / 31 [45]	AA & DCFTA	Georgia–EU relations
Moldova	2014	2014	30 / 31 [46]	AA & DCFTA	Moldova–EU relations
Ukraine	2014	2016	28 / 31 [47][48]	AA incl DCFTA	Ukraine–EU relations

Agreements finalized (signed, or not signed and negotiations concluded)

State	Negotiations Concluded	Signed	Provisional Application	Ratification	Notes
Côte d'Ivoire	2009	2009		15 / 29 [49]	Stepping Stone EPA
West Africa  Benin  Burkina Faso  Cape Verde  Ivory Coast  Gambia  Ghana  Guinea  Guinea-Bissau  Liberia  Mali  Niger  Nigeria  Senegal  Sierra Leone  Togo  Mauritania	6 February 2014	No			Economic Partnership Agreement[50][51]
Ecuador	July 2014	No			Free Trade Agreement[52]
South African Development Community  Botswana  Lesotho  Mozambique  Namibia  South Africa  Swaziland	15 July 2014	No			Economic Partnership Agreement[53]
Canada	August 2014	No		0 / 28	Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement[54]
Singapore	17 October 2014	No			Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement[55]
Vietnam	2 December 2015	No			Free Trade Agreement[56]
Eastern African Community  Burundi  Kenya  Rwanda  Tanzania  Uganda	16 October 2014	No			Economic Partnership Agreement[57]

Negotiating

• India Negotiations initiated in 2007 on EU-India Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement are stalled as of March 2015.^[58][59][60]
• ASEAN countries – now being pursued individually
• Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates)
• Russia (details)
• Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela)
• Japan (Japan–EU relations)
• Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (United States–EU relations)
• The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) is a trade agreement currently being negotiated by 23 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), including the EU.^[61]

See also

• Free trade area
• List of free trade agreements
• List of bilateral free trade agreements
• EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements
• European Union Association Agreement
• EUR.1 movement certificate
• United States free trade agreements
• Euro-Mediterranean free trade area
• Free trade areas in Europe
• List of the largest trading partners of the European Union

Notes

1. Entry into force of Interim Agreement
2. Interim Agreement
3. Agreement on Trade, Development and Cooperation
4. Decision of the EC-Turkey Association Council
5. did not sign
6. not Cameroon, but the Central Africa Party signed the agreement

References

1. "Free trade agreements". European Commission. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
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3. Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded - Protocol No 3 on the sovereign base areas of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Cyprus
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6. "Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Economic Community and the Principality of Andorra". Retrieved 28 October 2015.
7. "Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
8. "Agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
9. "Chile - Trade - European Commission". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
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14. "Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community and the European Coal and Steel Community, of the one part, and the State of Israel, on the other part". Retrieved 28 October 2015.
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18. "Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and its Members States, of the one part, and the Republic of Lebanon, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
19. "Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
20. "Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
21. "Mexico - Trade - European Commission". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
22. "Economic Partnership, Political Coordination and Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the United Mexican States, of the other part". eur-lex.europa.eu. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
23. "Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States of the one part, and the Republic of Montenegro, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
24. "Agreement details". Council of the European Union. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
25. "Council Decision 2013/755/EU of 25 November 2013 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Union". EUR-Lex. 19 December 2013.
26. "Council Decision 2001/822/EC of 27 November 2001 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Community". EUR-Lex. 27 November 2001.
27. "Euro-Mediterranean Interim Association Agreement on Trade and Cooperation between the European Community, of the one part, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for the benefit of the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
28. "Agreement on Cooperation and Customs Union between the European Economic Community and the Republic of San Marino". Retrieved 29 October 2015.
29. "Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Serbia, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
30. "Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the Community and South Africa, which provides for the provisional application of a portion of the Agreement on Trade, Development and Cooperation between the European Community and its Member States, on the one part, and the Republic of South Africa, on the other part". Retrieved 28 October 2015.
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32. "Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Korea, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
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34. "Trade agreement details". Council of the European Union. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
35. "Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the Free Movement of Persons". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
36. "Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
37. Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association Council of 22 December 1995 on implementing the final phase of the Customs Union
38. "Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
39. "Interim Agreement establishing a framework for an Economic Partnership Agreement between the Eastern and Southern Africa States, on the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, on the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
40. "Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
41. EU signs FTA
42. "Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
43. EU FTA agreements with Colombia and Central America became effective August first
44. "Agreement details". Council of the European Union. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
45. "Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
46. "Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Moldova, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
47. "Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part". Agreements Database, Council of the European Union. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
48. http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents-publications/agreements-conventions/agreement/?aid=2014045
49. "Agreement details". Council of the European Union. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
50. http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2009/september/tradoc_144912.pdf
51. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/regions/west-africa/
52. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/regions/andean-community/
53. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/regions/sadc/
54. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ceta/
55. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/singapore/
56. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/vietnam/
57. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/regions/eac/
58. European Union Seeks Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Intervention to Resume Trade Talks
59. EU keen to restart FTA negotiations with India
60. EU Keen to Resume Negotiations on Stalled BTIA With India
61. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/tisa/

External links

• Free Trade Agreements, International affairs, European Commission
• Articles on EU FTAs, at Agritrade
• The Transatlantic Colossus: Global Contributions to Broaden the Debate on the EU-US Free Trade Agreement A collaborative publication with over 20 articles on the global implications of the TAFTA | TTIP
• Koeth, Wolfgang (8 December 2014) “The Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements: an Appropriate Response by the EU to the Challenges in its Neighbourhood”?