South-South FTAs
Developing countries have joined join the "FTA bandwagon", especially since the early 2000s, and are negotiating bilateral treaties between themselves. Many of these are tariff reduction schemes (more commonly called "preferential trade agreements"), or bases for free trade zones, and don’t intrude much into each other’s economic or social policies.
While they can very seriously affect workers, farmers, manufacturers and other firms in both the participating and nearby neighbouring countries, by quickly shifting trade and capital flows, they usually don’t have the far-reaching policy effects of typical North-South FTAs.
Some are also limited to specific sectors only, like agricultural goods.
last update: May 2012
As released by the Ministry of Commerce, China
Full text of FTA between Chile and Malaysia
The text of 1263 pages in PDF format as uploaded on the Government of India’s, Ministry of Commerce and Industry’s web site
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China FTAs
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Colombia-Mexico-Venezuela Free Trade Treaty (1995)
Español: http://www.sice.oas.org/Trade/G3_E/... -
Free and Preferential Trade agreements between Egypt and the Arab countries
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FTAs between Egypt and Arab countries
Free and Preferential Trade agreements between Egypt and the Arab countries, web page maintained by the Ministry of Foreign Trade & Industry of Egypt -
TLCs de Perú
Página de información del gobierno peruano -
Turkey’s bilateral free trade agreements
Information page maintained by the Trade Ministry
