On The Implementation Of The Asean Free Trade Area Framework Agreement And Its Progress

The breakthrough development of economic cooperation of ASEAN began with the beginning of 1990s. Before 1990s, Special preferential trade arrangement pact (shortened form PTA) as the main mechanism of economic cooperation of ASEAN exerted some driving forces to the economic cooperation of ASEAN. Since 1990s, Cooperation Effective Preferential Treatment (shortened form CEPT) has replaced PTA and become the main mechanism of economic cooperation and realization of free trade area of ASEAN. Presupposing develop along economic integration, in order to free trade area, the legal system that consists of a series of agreements, pacts, plans, statements and declarations has shaped. Its main content is CEPT. It made up of the main content of free trade framework agreements and was the programmatic document of establishing free trade area of ASEAN. Framework agreements prescribe the basicdirection of economic development of ASEAN countries------to establish free trade area of ASEAN. Thethesis focuses our discussion on some principal problems, for example, the problem of custom decreasing. influence of framework agreements on economic development of ASEAN etc, in the implementation process of free trade framework agreements of ASEAN. In order for convenience, framework agreements spoke of in this thesis all refer to free trade agreements ( except those need special explains).Since 1993, in the implementation process of framework agreements of ASEAN, framework agreements has displayed great "cohesion' and exerted profound influence. Framework agreements discussed in the thesis mostly point to mechanism of custom decreasing that gives priority to CEPT. At the same time, the contents also consist of some relevant contents to establish free trade area and to decrease custom. The latter is the complement , revise and consummate to the former. The first part of the thesis expounds the sources of free trade framework agreements of ASEAN and component parts, a series of agreements pacts plans declarations etc, of framework agreements. The second part focuses our discussion on the situations of custom decreasing and aim's time- adjusting in the implementation process of framework agreements. The third part discusses the influences of framework agreements on economic development. The final majority aim is to discuss and analysis the situations of implementation and progression of free trade framework agreements of ASEAN. Because of seeking particularity, the custom decreasing of discussion in the second chapter, lists importing custom decreasing of 21 major kinds of goods. In view of structure, I don't do much analysis of charts. On the one side, 1 think charts can explain problems by themselves; in addition, some analysis is listed in the contents of third chapter to explain the influence of framework agreements on economic development.Through the discussion of the thesis, we can get some knowledge about progressing situations of free trade area of ASEAN. Meanwhile we can make out framework agreements as a kind of programmatic legal document exert important effectiveness on area economic development.