ATIGA and its implication on the cross-border trade

The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) was signed in 1992 and the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme (CEPT) was initiated in 1993. The Protocol to Amend the Agreement on CEPT-AFTA for the Elimination of Import Duties was adopted in 2003 followed by the entry force of the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) in 2010. In the latter, the ATIGA rates will apply instead of CEPT. For the ASEAN-6 (Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand), 99.2% of tariff lines indicate ATIGA tariff rate (or CEPT rate) of 0%  in 2014, while 90.8% of tariff lines of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) show ATIGA rate of 0%  in 2015. In average, the share of ATIGA 0% tariff lines across ASEAN Member States (AMS) have reached 96.0% by 2015. In addtion, CLMV has flexibility rules for extending tariff elimination for some sensitive products up to 7% of tariff lines until 2018.

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