Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Tables and Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- ASEAN Organizational Structure
- 1 Introduction: Southeast Asia, Myanmar and ASEAN
- 2 ASEAN: Evolution of Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia
- 3 Political and Economic Development of Myanmar: An Overview
- 4 Myanmar in ASEAN
- 5 Myanmar-ASEAN Cooperation for Development
- 6 Conclusion: Issues and Challenges
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Appendix I The ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration), 8 August 1967
- Appendix II Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality Declaration (Kuala Lumpur Declaration), 27 November 1971
- Appendix III Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, 24 February 1976
- Appendix III(a) Protocol Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, Philippines, 15 December 1987
- Appendix III(b) Second Protocol Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia
- Appendix IV Declaration of ASEAN Concord, Indonesia, 24 February 1976
- Appendix V Hanoi Plan of Action
- Appendix VI ASEAN Vision 2020
- Appendix VII Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone
- Appendix VIII Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area
- Appendix VIII(a) Protocol to Amend the Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area
- Appendix IX Joint Statement on East Asia Cooperation, 28 November 1999
- Index
Appendix VIII(a) - Protocol to Amend the Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Tables and Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- ASEAN Organizational Structure
- 1 Introduction: Southeast Asia, Myanmar and ASEAN
- 2 ASEAN: Evolution of Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia
- 3 Political and Economic Development of Myanmar: An Overview
- 4 Myanmar in ASEAN
- 5 Myanmar-ASEAN Cooperation for Development
- 6 Conclusion: Issues and Challenges
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Appendix I The ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration), 8 August 1967
- Appendix II Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality Declaration (Kuala Lumpur Declaration), 27 November 1971
- Appendix III Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, 24 February 1976
- Appendix III(a) Protocol Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, Philippines, 15 December 1987
- Appendix III(b) Second Protocol Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia
- Appendix IV Declaration of ASEAN Concord, Indonesia, 24 February 1976
- Appendix V Hanoi Plan of Action
- Appendix VI ASEAN Vision 2020
- Appendix VII Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone
- Appendix VIII Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area
- Appendix VIII(a) Protocol to Amend the Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area
- Appendix IX Joint Statement on East Asia Cooperation, 28 November 1999
- Index
Summary
The Governments of Brunei Darussalam, the Republic of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore and the Kingdom of Thailand, Member States of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN);
NOTING the Agreement on the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) (“the Agreement”) signed in Singapore on 28 January 1992;
RECALLING the Protocol to Amend the Framework Agreement on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation (1992) signed on 15 December 1995 in Bangkok by the Heads of Government reflecting the acceleration of the CEPT Scheme for AFTA from the year 2008 to the year 2003;
RECOGNISING the need to amend the Agreement to reflect the latest developments in ASEAN;
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
ARTICLE 1
Article 2, paragraphs 3,5 and 6 of the Agreement be amended to read as follows:
“3. Exclusions at the HS 8/9 digit level for specific products are permitted for those Member States, which are temporarily not ready to include such products in the CEPT Scheme. For specific products, which are sensitive to a Member State, pursuant to Article 1 (3) of the Framework Agreement on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation, a Member State may exclude products from the CEPT Scheme, subject to a waiver of any concession herein provided for such products. These temporarily excluded products are to be gradually included into the CEPT by 1 January 2000.
5. All manufactured products, including capital goods, and agricultural products shall be in the CEPT Scheme. These products shall automatically be subject to the schedule of tariff reduction set out in Article 4 of the Agreement as revised in Article 3 of this Protocol. In respect of PTA items, the schedule of tariff reduction provided for in the revised Article 4(A) set out in Article 3 of this Protocol shall be applied, taking into account the tariff rate after the application of tile existing margin of preference (MOP) as at 31 December 1992.
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- Myanmar in ASEANRegional Cooperation Experience, pp. 204 - 206Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak InstitutePrint publication year: 2005