The Agreement Establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA) was signed on 27 February 2009 in Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand.
AANZFTA is a free trade agreement between:
- Australia
- Brunei Darussalam
- Cambodia
- Indonesia
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- New Zealand
- The Philippines
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Vietnam
AANZFTA can be found at
ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA.
Entry into force
AANZFTA entered into force for all but four Parties on 1 January 2010. AANZFTA entered into force for those four Parties on the following dates:
- Thailand on 12 March 2010
- Laos on 1 January 2011
- Cambodia on 4 January 2011
- Indonesia on 10 January 2012.
First Protocol to amend AANZFTA
The First Protocol to amend AANZFTA (First Protocol) was signed on 26 August 2014 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, and entered into force on 1 October 2015 for all but two Parties.
The First Protocol entered into force for Cambodia on 11 January 2016 and for Indonesia on 1 March 2019.
The First Protocol can be found at
ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA.
Important notice about claiming preferential rates of customs duty under Agreement Establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA)
The changes set out in ACN 2021/35 relate to how AANZFTA preferential rates of customs duty are claimed by Australian importers in the Integrated Cargo System (ICS).
This is separate to requirements for the AANZFTA Certificate of Origin (COO). The COO must be completed in accordance with the treaty and the overleaf notes. Issuing bodies from AANZFTA Parties are not required to make any changes to how they issue AANZFTA COO.
From 1 January 2022, the preference rule type PSR should be used in place of CTC, CTH, RVC and OTH when claiming preferential rates of customs duty under AANZFTA in the ICS. There have been no changes to WO or PE preferential rule types.
For clarity, the AANZFTA COO must continue to use the codes listed in the table in paragraph 5 of the overleaf notes.
However, you can select PSR as the ICS preference rule type for goods where AANZFTA COO list the origin conferring criteria in box 8 as CTC/CTH/OTH/RVC (types of Product Specific Rules). This is to simplify reporting in the ICS.
