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FACTS&FIGURES Regional Trade Agreements 1 JULY 2020 – 1 JANUARY 2021 In the context of a deteriorating trade environment fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing trade restrictions taken by some WTO Members, RTAs nevertheless continued to be notified to and considered at the WTO. Hybrid meeting formats (presential + virtual) were used by WTO Members to continue their monitoring work. RTAs notified to the WTO and in force on 1 January 2021. Separate notifications on Goods and Services for the same RTA are counted as one.

RTAs notified

36

+

RTAs notified

Trade in Goods

EU – Viet Nam US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) EU-Pacific States, Accession of Samoa EU-Pacific States, Accession of Solomon Islands 32 RTAs between the UK and the following partners, as a result of “Brexit”: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Faeroe Islands, Fiji, Georgia, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Lebanon, Lichtenstein, Mauritius, Moldova, Morocco, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, St Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Surname, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Kosovo*, Viet Nam, and Zimbabwe. *Reference to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of the United Nations

+ 0 Early announcement (voluntary) + 0 Notification of changes

0 EOI report circulated EOI: End of Implementation

145 EOI reports due

Trade in Services

Total number of

RTAs notified

335 541

(if counting separately all the notifications on goods, services, and accessions)

Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).

Including accessions to existing RTAs

RTAs considered by the CRTA and the CTD

ASEAN - Japan ASEAN – Rep. of Korea Hong Kong, China - Georgia Peru - Honduras GUAM EU –Armenia MERCOSUR – Israel EU – Cameroon EU – SADC States India – Rep. of Korea EFTA – Philippines Hong Kong, China – Australia Chile - Indonesia

19 RTAs considered during the period 13 RTAs considered at the CRTA; and 6 RTAs considered at the CTD.

COMESA – Accession of Egypt India - Afghanistan MERCOSUR – SACU ASEAN – Rep. of Korea Mexico – Bolivia India – Rep. of Korea

3 regular sessions 27 July 2020 22 September 2020 18 November 2020

CRTA

Committee on Regional Trade Agreements considers RTAs notified under GATT Art. XXIV and GATS Art. V

29 September 2020 20 November 2020

48

42

South America

Africa

70

Middle East

23 42

(if counting separately all the notifications on goods, services, and accessions)

44 31 30 30 26 23 22

Chile UK Singapore

132 33

331

EU(27) EFTA States

CIS

11 Caribbean

* The “Transparency Mechanism for RTAs” (TM) was established in December 2006 by a Decision of the General Council.

The biggest “users” of RTAs

49 Central America

200

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Number of RTAs notified and currently in force Europe

Under the TM*

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Committee on Trade and Development considers RTAs notified under the Enabling Clause

North America

RTAs considered

In a limited number of cases, a single RTA notified to the WTO may be considered on two different occasions if the trade in goods aspects are notified under the Enabling Clause (prompting a consideration by the CTD), and the trade in services aspects are notified under the GATS (prompting a consideration by the CRTA). In rare cases also, a single RTA, which has been notified both under the GATT Art. XXIV and the Enabling Clause (so-called “dual notifications”), is considered under both the CRTA and the CTD (this was the case, for example of the RTAs between ASEAN and the Rep. of Korea and between India and the Rep. of Korea).

2 dedicated session on RTAs

CTD

Total number of

East Asia

Turkey Mexico

97

West Asia Oceania

28

Peru Korea Japan Panama India China

20 19 18 17 16 15

CREDITS: Copyrights (c) WTO (World Trade Organization) 2021 Infographics based on an original idea from AddTwoDigital (www.addtwodigital.com; @addtwodigital) Data Collection: WTO Secretariat / RTA Section ([email protected]) Situation as reported on 1 January 2021. Update every 6 months....