The Evolution of Deep Trade Agreements
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OVERVIEW
The Evolution of Deep
Trade Agreements
A. Mattoo, N. Rocha, and M. Ruta
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Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements
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OVERVIEW
The Evolution of Deep Trade Agreements
A. Mattoo*, N. Rocha* and M. Ruta*
* World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
CONTENTS
O.1. INTRODUCTION 3
O.2. SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY 6
O.3. STYLIZED FACTS 12
O.4. THE CHALLENGE OF QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF DTAs 19
O.4.1 Directly constructed indices 19
O.4.2 Indirectly estimated measures 20
O.4.3 Quantication challenges: some analytical issues going forward 22
O.5. CONCLUSIONS 23
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 24
REFERENCES 25
ANNEX 26
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O.1. INTRODUCTION
This Handbook provides new data on and analysis of all preferential trade agreements
(PTAs) that have been notied to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and highlights the
emergence of deep trade agreement (DTA).
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DTAs are reciprocal agreements between countries that cover not just trade but additional policy
areas, such as international ows of investment and labor, and the protection of intellectual property
rights and the environment, amongst others. While these legal arrangements are still referred
to as trade agreements, their goal is integration beyond trade or deep integration. DTAs aim at
establishing ve “economic integration” rights: free (or freer) movement of goods, services, capital,
people, and ideas. DTAs also include enforcement provisions that limit the discretion of importing
governments in these areas, as well as provisions that regulate the behavior of exporters.
Preferential trade agreements have always been a feature of the world trading system but
have become more prominent in recent years. The number of PTAs increased from 50 in the
early 1990s to roughly 300 in 2019. All WTO members are currently party to one, and often
several, PTAs. While WTO rules still form the basis of most trade agreements, PTAs have
in some sense run away with the trade agenda. Traditional trade policy areas, such as tari
reduction or services liberalization, are now more frequently negotiated in regional contexts
rather than at the WTO, with PTAs often going beyond what countries have committed to
at the WTO. The result is that PTAs have expanded their scope. While the average PTA in
the 1950s covered 8 policy areas, in recent years they have averaged 17. In other words, there
is some preliminary evidence that PTAs are becoming DTAs, both on the intensive margin
(specic commitments within a policy area) and the extensive margin (number of policy areas
covered). In this Handbook, we do not draw a sharp distinction between DTAs and other
PTAs. Rather, the aim is to demonstrate the progressive deepening of PTAs.
Deep trade agreements matter for economic development. The rules embedded in DTAs,
along with the multilateral trade rules and other elements of international economics law
such as international investment agreements, inuence how countries (and, hence, the people
and rms that live and operate within them) transact, invest, work, and, ultimately, develop.
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In the international economics and law literature, “PTA” is an umbrella term encompassing several types of
reciprocal agreements between trading partners: regional trade agreements (RTAs), free trade agreements (FTAs),
and customs unions (CUs). This denition diers from that of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which
denes PTAs as agreements that grant unilateral (i.e., non-reciprocal) trade preferences such as the Generalized
System of Preferences schemes, under which developed countries grant preferential taris to imports from
developing countries.
This study, following the denition from international economics and law, uses the term “PTA” to refer to
all types of trade agreements, both within and across regions, and uses “DTA” to refer to PTAs that contain
provisions aimed at deepening economic integration between trading partners.
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Trade and investment regimes determine the extent of economic integration, competition
rules aect economic eciency, intellectual property rights matter for innovation, and
environmental and labor rules contribute to social and environmental outcomes.
It is, therefore, vital that rules and commitments in DTAs be informed by evidence and
shaped more by development priorities than by international power dynamics or domestic
politics. An impediment to this goal is that data and analysis on trade agreements have not
captured the new dimensions of integration, which makes it dicult to identify the content
and consequences of DTAs.
This Handbook takes a rst step towards lling this important gap in our understanding of
international economic law and policy. It presents detailed data on the content of the eighteen
policy areas most frequently covered in PTAs, focusing on the stated objectives, substantive
commitments, and other aspects such as transparency, procedures, and enforcement. In terms
of the coverage of policy areas and the granularity of information within each area, this is the
most comprehensive eort to date. Each chapter, authored by a leading expert in his or her
eld, explains in detail the methodology used to collect the information and provides a rst
look at the evidence in each policy area.
The new data and analysis will inform experts and policymakers in their eorts to design, negotiate,
and take advantage of DTAs that promote development. This information will also enable
researchers to develop indicators on the depth of trade agreements in dierent policy areas, assess
the similarities between these arrangements, and benchmark countries’ DTAs relative to their
partners. It will also help identify the rules that benet only participants and those that have large
spillover eects on non-participants or excluded countries. Finally, the new data and analysis in this
study will allow researchers to identify areas where there is de facto convergence across dierent
players, thus facilitating the adoption of commonly agreed multilateral rules.
This Handbook will lay the groundwork for new research in international economics
and other elds. A large body of economic literature has looked at the eects of PTAs
on international trade ows and on welfare.
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However, this literature has two important
limitations.
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On the theoretical side, the study of PTAs is mostly based on Vinerian
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logic,
which focuses exclusively on taris, thus by construction excluding deep integration issues.
On the empirical side, attempts to quantify the eects of PTAs suer from a measurement
error problem, as studies generally rely on dummies to identify trade agreements or distinguish
between broad categories of agreements such as FTAs or CUs. The new data will help
theorists to model DTAs and help empirical economists to properly identify their eects.
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See, e.g., Freund and Ornelas 2010, Limao 2017.
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See, e.g., Baldwin 2010, Mattoo et al. 2017.
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Viner 1950.
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Beyond economics, the data will inform research in other elds, primarily international law
and international relations, on important issues such as the commonality or divergence of the
rules set in PTAs and how they could evolve in the future.
The research in this Handbook is the result of collaboration among the World Bank, the
International Trade Centre (ITC), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), the WTO, and experts from academic institutions. It builds on previous
research by the World Bank and others. A rst database on the content of deep trade agreements
was published in 2017 with the goal of documenting how the policy areas covered by PTAs
had increased over time (Hofmann, Osnago, and Ruta 2017). This dataset allowed researchers
to construct a rst series of indicators which capture the scope of trade agreements; i.e., what
policy areas they cover. We refer to this as the extensive margin of PTA depth. Based on this rst
dataset, several research papers then looked, respectively, at the impact of deep trade agreements
on trade, global value chains, and foreign direct investment (FDI), and the eect of breaking
up such agreements.
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The data have also been extensively employed for policy advice by the
Wo rl d B an k i n s eve ra l d eve lo pi ng c o u n t r i es i n Af r i c a , L a ti n A me r i c a , E a st As ia , a n d t h e B a l k a n s .
The new data that we briey review in this introduction and that are analyzed in detail
in the individual chapters of this Handbook oer insights into a dierent dimension of
PTAs’ depth. They capture the detailed commitments to establish and preserve the rights to
economic integration, and the procedures, institutions, and enforcement mechanisms that
countries set up to make deep integration work. The focus is therefore not on the extensive
margin of integration (number of policy areas that are covered by the agreement), but on its
intensive margin (the specic commitments within a policy area).
While there are a number of individual studies that have documented the deepening of PTAs
in specic areas, two major data collection projects—Dür, Baccini, and Elsig (2014) and Acharya
(2016)—also aimed at documenting the specic commitments for a group of policy areas covered
in PTAs. Both eorts have important merits. Dür, Baccini, and Elsig (2014) covered a large set of
PTAs, including those that have been notied to the WTO but are no longer in force. Acharya
(2016) provided a series of databases on the content of PTAs that go beyond specic policy areas
and cover emerging issues such as e-commerce or the rules on dispute settlement in PTAs. Relative
to these data collection projects, the new dataset is more comprehensive, both in terms of the
number of policy areas covered and in terms of the information on detailed disciplines in each area.
This introduction describes the scope and methodology underlying the research agenda on
deep trade agreements. It also highlights a novel set of stylized facts that can be inferred from
a rst look at the new data collected as part of this project, and oers some insights into
future applications and areas for analysis.
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Mattoo et al. 2017, Mulabdic et al. 2017, Laget et al. 2018, Laget et al. 2019.
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O.2. SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY
The number of policy areas covered by PTAs has increased in the last two decades. Up until
the late 1990s, when the number of PTAs started increasing, the majority of new agreements
covered fewer than 10 policy areas. Since the 2000s, most new PTAs have covered between
10 and 20 policy areas, with some having even more than 20 (Figure O.1). In a study of 28
trade agreements signed by the US and the EU, Horn et al. (2010) identify up to 52 policy
areas that have been covered by at least one of the agreements. The inclusion of new policy
areas in PTAs is not random. As shown in Mattoo et al. (2017), trade agreements covering
few policy areas generally focus on traditional trade policy, such as tari liberalization or
customs (Table O.1). Agreements with broader coverage (between 10 and 20 policy areas)
tend to include trade-related regulatory issues, such as subsidies or technical barriers to trade.
Finally, agreements with more than 20 provisions often include policy areas that are not
directly related to trade, such as labor, environment, and movement of people.
The policy areas studied in this Handbook are those that appear most frequently in trade
agreements. They include (a) a set of 18 policy areas that are covered in 20 percent or more of
trade agreements notied to the WTO (Figure O.2): (b) taris on industrial and agricultural
goods, which are covered by all trade agreements; (c) customs and export taxes, which are
regulated in more than 80 percent of PTAs; (d) services and movements of capital, which
are regulated in roughly half of the PTAs; and (e) environmental and labor issues, which
are covered by around 20 percent of all trade agreements. Other issues that are sometimes
(although infrequently) regulated in trade agreements, such as education, nuclear safety, and
Figure O.1: Number of policy areas covered in PTAs, 1970-2017
Source: WTO, Preferential Trade Agreements database, following Hofmann, Osnago, and Ruta 2017.
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Table O.1: Share of policy areas for dierent PTAs
Source: Mattoo et al. 2017.
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human rights, are not included in this Handbook and could be the subject of future research.
The focus on individual areas helps us to identify specic policies that are the object of
negotiation but may obscure cross-cutting issues—such as electronic commerce—that may
be disciplined under multiple policy areas.
The classication of policy areas used in Figure O.2 deviates slightly from the one of Horn et
al. (2010).
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Specically, for this Handbook, we decided to include rules of origin, a policy area
that was absent from the Horn et al. (2010) classication, and to treat as a single policy area:
(a) trade remedies, which include anti-dumping and countervailing measures; (b) investment,
which includes the areas covered under the WTO’s Trade-Related Investment Measures, or
TRIMs; and (c) intellectual property rights (IPR), which include the areas covered under the
WTO’s Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights, or TRIPs.
Trade agreements are generally assessed in terms of the market access they create. Given the
complexity of policy areas that are covered by DTAs, the metric of market access—while
still important—appears inadequate. In this introduction, we propose to dene deep trade
agreements as international arrangements that aim to regulate three (partially overlapping)
sets of policy areas (Figure O.3).
• First, the core policy areas included in DTAs aim to establish five economic
integration rights: free (or freer) movement of goods, services, capital, people, and ideas.
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The Horn et al. 2010 classication was used to collect data on the extensive margin of PTA depth.
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We use the words “aim to establish” rather than “establish” for two main reasons. First, DTAs may cover only a
subset of integration rights. Second, provisions may not be justiciable. A contribution of the new data is to identify
the extent to which integration rights are established in PTAs.
Figure O.2: Number of policy areas covered in PTAs, by policy
Source: Deep Trade Agreements Database, based on Hofmann, Osnago, and Ruta 2017.
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The policy areas that directly impact these ows include: (a) taris and export taxes,
which aect the movement of goods; (b) services, which regulate services trade ows;
(c) investment and movement of capital, which aect the movement of capital; (d) visa
and asylum, which regulate the movement of people; and (e) intellectual property rights,
which inuence the ows of ideas.
• Second, DTAs also include policy areas that aim to support these economic integration
rights by limiting government discretion. Actions by importing governments that limit
international ows can be taken at the border and behind the border and are often of
a regulatory nature. The policy areas that fall in this category are: (a) customs; (b) rules
of origin; (c) trade remedies; (d) public procurement; (e) technical barriers to trade (TBT); (f)
sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS); (g) state-owned enterprises (SOEs); (h) subsidies;
and (i) competition policy.
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• Third, DTAs cover policy areas that aim to enhance social or consumer welfare
by regulating the behavior of exporters. Policy areas such as environment and labor
impose obligations on exporters to further consumer or social interests in importing
countries. Rules in areas such as competition, SOEs, and subsidies can have a dual
aspect: in addition to regulating action that undermines economic integration rights,
they can aim to address distortionary actions that lower economic eciency, thus
hurting consumer or social welfare.
For each policy area, the experts followed a uniform approach to coding.
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T h e c o d i n g t e m p l a t e s
encompass several common headings such as objectives and denitions, institutional framework,
and an enforcement mechanism, plus a series of discipline-specic questions. Under each heading,
questions on specic provisions in the agreement are formulated so that they can be answered
with Yes/No. For some policy areas, additional information is provided at the provision level,
including (a) the relationship between the coverage of the disciplines on and the corresponding
regulation in the WTO; (b) the level of enforceability of each provision;
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(c) whether the specic
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Some of these provisions apply only to cross-border trade in goods (e.g., customs, TBT, and SPS). Others can
also apply to cross-border trade in services (e.g., public procurement and competition policy). In some cases,
services-related provisions are included separately in a services agreement.
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One exception is preferential taris. Dierently from the other policy areas, tari commitments apply at the
product level. The information for this area is therefore collected at the country-pair-product level. For rules
of origin a sub-sample of agreements in Latin America and East Asia, the dataset on regime-wide provisions is
accompanied by a mapping of the rules of origin that apply at the product level.
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The legal enforceability of the PTA provisions is coded according to the language used in the text of the
agreements. It is assumed that commitments expressed with a clear, specic, and imperative legal language can
more successfully be invoked by a complainant in a dispute settlement proceeding, and therefore are more likely
to be legally enforceable. In contrast, unclearly formulated legal language might be related to policy areas that are
covered but that might not be legally enforceable.
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Figure O.3: A classication of policy areas in DTAs
commitment can be applied discriminatorily or whether it is de facto non-discriminatory.
Finally, when applicable, for example, in services and government procurement, the coders
included information at the sectoral level on exclusion of certain sectors from an agreement,
or the applicability of an agreement to a specic industry.
The analysis covers the realm of PTAs that are in force and notied to the WTO as of
end-2017. The basis of the coding analysis is the legal text of the trade agreements and the
relevant annexes that accompany the agreement (and have been notied to the WTO). This
approach comes with two main limitations that should be clear to the user of the database.
First, the focus on the legal text of the agreement implies that secondary law (the body of law
that derives from the principles and objectives of the treaties) has not been coded. This is a
concern particularly when assessing the depth of integration of the EU, since in most policy
areas covered in this Handbook, EU institutions have used secondary law such as regulations,
directives, and other legal instruments to pursue integration.
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Second, the focus on the legal
text also excludes from consideration issues of implementation of the trade agreement into
national laws and regulations or subsequent annexes that the parties might agree on which
are not reported to the WTO. These are important areas for future research.
Despite the similarity in the coding approach, policy areas dier widely from each other. First,
some policy areas are inherently more complex than others and their description requires
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Note that the gures and tables in this introduction refer to the EU as a single entity (i.e., the European Union
agreement and enlargements are excluded) and report data for EU PTAs with third countries where this concern
does not apply.
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a larger number of questions to reect the more detailed provisions. IPR has the highest
number of provisions (120), while labor has the lowest (18). Second, some policy areas focus
primarily on substantive provisions: specic commitments on integration, such as market
access commitments, and specic obligations such as harmonization of standards. Others
tend to have a larger number of procedural provisions, such as transparency provisions and
procedural requirements. Table O.2 provides an overview, showing the heterogeneity across
policy areas in these dierent dimensions and identifying the set of “substantive” provisions
as those that require specic integration/liberalization commitments and obligations.
Table O.2: Number of substantive and other provisions per policy area in all PTAs notied to the WTO
Source: Deep Trade Agreements Database.
Objectives 1 1 8 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 23
Scope and denitions 1 16 11 7 2 17 2 4 2 1 10 8 10 91
Transparency 4 9 3 13 3 8 6 3 10 7 4 5 1 76
Substantive commitments 17 19 13 59 3 6 2 19 20 4 3 8 11 27 20 12 243
Liberalization/ 14 8 11 19 4 1 3 4 3 13 80
Integration
Conditions/ 3 11 2 40 3 2 1 16 16 1 3 8 11 27 7 12 163
Obligations
Procedural requirements 17 8 12 3 28 10 3 28 2 2 17 130
Enforcement mechanism 1 3 8 22 1 2 4 5 7 5 4 1 63
Sectoral coverage 2 1 2 5 33 9 8 60
Specic coverage 2 1 13 9 8 2 8 1 44
Exceptions 5 6 2 35 4 4 3 1 3 63
Safeguards 1 10 31 1 43
Special and 7 2 2 11
dierentiated treatment
Institutional framework 1 1 2 2 2 6 2 11 2 1 2 32
Cooperation 2 3 1 8 3 3 1 1 1 5 4 1 33
Miscellaneous 9 6 5 2 2 1 25
Total provisions 46 64 57 95 120 30 52 51 34 59 100 36 54 35 48 38 18 937
Discipline
Export Taxes
Services
Investment
Movement of Capital
Intellectual Property Rights
Visa and Asylum
Trade Facilitation and Customs
Anti-dumping and
Countervailing Duties
Technical Barriers to Trade
Sanitary and Phytosanitary
Measures Public
Procurement Subsidies
State-Owned Enterprises
Competition Policy
Environmental Laws
Rules of Origin
Labor Market Regulations
Total provisions
Category
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We also make an eort to identify the set of provisions within each policy area that are
essential to achieve the objectives of the agreement. The provisions we refer to as “essential”
comprise the set of substantive provisions plus the disciplines among procedures, transparency,
enforcement, or objectives which are viewed as indispensable and complementary to achieving
the substantive commitments. Non-essential provisions are referred to as “corollary.” A caveat
is that this exercise is based on the experts’ knowledge and, hence, is subjective. However, this
approach has the advantage of limiting the dimensionality of the data in an informed way.
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O.3. STYLIZED FACTS
A number of new stylized facts emerge from a preliminary analysis of the data. Each of the
chapters in this Handbook provides a rst look at the data by policy area. In this introduction,
we present a bird’s-eye view of the entire dataset put together by experts. Given the dierences
among policy areas and among provisions within each policy area, this approach presents
many quantication challenges, which are discussed below. In this section, we rely on simple
counts of the provisions and on coverage ratios
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to investigate the evolution of the content
of deep trade agreements. The underlying assumption in this approach is that deeper trade
agreements imply a larger number of provisions.
As shown in chapter 1,
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liberalization in PTAs has reduced trade-weighted average tari rates
to less than 5 percent for more than two-thirds of countries (Figure O.4). While there are still
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A statistical approach on how to assess the importance of specic provisions included in the dierent policy
areas in explaining trade outcomes is presented in section O.4.
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The coverage ratio is dened as the share of provisions for a policy area contained in a given agreement relative
to the maximum number of provisions in that policy area or agreement.
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Chapter 1 by Espitia et al. 2020.
Figure O.4: Taris in PTAs and MFN taris
Source: Chapter 1 by Espitia et al. 2020.
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pockets of high protection in some countries, most notably lower-income economies, PTAs
have been broadly successful in committing national governments to maintaining low taris.
Trade-weighted applied taris are, on average, 2.3 percentage points lower than average
most-favored-nation (MFN) rates, with gaps of greater than 6 percentage points for countries
like Tunisia, Morocco, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Namibia, and the Lao People’s Democratic
Republic. So, while from an eciency perspective, preferential tari liberalization is inferior
to non-preferential liberalization, the commitments countries have made in the network
of preferential trade agreements may provide a safety net at a time when trade tensions are
escalating and some countries are disregarding their multilateral commitments.
The number of commitments that governments have made in trade agreements, particularly
since the early 2000s, has increased over time. Figure O.5 shows how the coverage ratio
has changed over time for the 17 policy areas analyzed in this Handbook (all but taris) in
aggregate. With only a few exceptions, the majority of new PTAs signed after 2000 have a
coverage ratio higher than 25 percent. This stands in sharp contrast to the trade agreements
signed in the 1980s and 1990s, when coverage ratios were below 15 percent and, in many
cases, even below 5 percent. The reduction in taris accomplished through preferential
trade liberalization, together with the increased depth of agreements over time, suggests
that countries that are willing to cut taris reciprocally may also be willing to accept deeper
mutual commitments in other areas.
While the overall number of provisions is suggestive, it can hide important elements of
the evolution of deep trade agreements. First, as discussed above, some provisions imply
substantive commitments while others concern broad objectives, denitions, or procedural
matters. Second, deep trade agreements, as dened in this Handbook, do not only concern
themselves with market access in goods, but also aim to establish freedom of mobility for
Figure O.5: Number of agreements over time vs. average coverage ratio
Note: Coverage ratio refers to the share of provisions contained in a given agreement relative to the maximum
number of provisions. European Union agreement and enlargements excluded.
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services, capital, ideas, and people, as well as regulating policy areas that have an impact
on consumer and/or social welfare, such as labor and the environment. To gain a better
understanding of how the commitments in PTAs have changed over time, we look at the
evolution of coverage ratios by policy area.
Figure O.6 shows that the coverage of essential disciplines in PTAs has increased over time
across all policy areas. This is most clearly the case for the policy areas aimed at facilitating
the ows of goods (customs and trade facilitation), capital (investment and movement of
capital), and services. IPR and movement of people (visa and asylum) also saw a steady
but less remarkable increase in essential commitments over time. Along with economic
integration rights, PTAs increasingly include essential commitments in policy areas that
support these rights or impose obligations on exporters. The ones that appear to stand
out are subsidies, competition, and SOEs, areas that are either excluded from the WTO or
for which reform of multilateral rules is considered dicult. Interestingly, while essential
commitments in labor have largely increased in recent years, this happened to a lesser
extent for provisions on the environment.
The presumption is that the increase in the essential disciplines in deep PTAs has been driven
by countries taking on more substantive commitments over time. Indeed, Figure O.7 shows
Figure O.6: Coverage ratios by policy area, over time
Note: Coverage ratio by policy area refers to the share of provisions for a policy area contained in a given
agreement relative to the maximum number of provisions in that policy area. Years refer to entry-into-force date.
European Union agreement and enlargements excluded.
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that this is the case, but it also uncovers interesting insights about the evolution of non-
substantive commitments. We focus on the three (numerically) most relevant non-substantive
provisions: procedural rules, transparency, and enforcement provisions. The deepening of
substantive commitments has been accompanied by an increase in the number of corollary
provisions, suggesting that achieving deeper commitments may require more procedural
rules for implementation, transparency, and enforcement. A second insight is that, while these
disciplines are all necessary to render substantive commitments in trade agreements eective,
they have evolved dierently in recent years. Starting in the early 2000s, the relevance of
enforcement provisions in DTAs has increased disproportionally relative to procedural and
transparency provisions. The growing enforcement capacity of DTAs may help explain the
success of these institutional arrangements as tools for deep integration.
When we break down the trade agreements by level of development of the signatories,
we observe two facts. First, the deepest PTAs are those involving developed economies,
followed by PTAs between developed and developing economies. PTAs between
developing countries are the shallowest. Indeed, there is a sizeable gap between average
coverage ratios for the latter group of PTAs relative to the rst two (Figure O.8). This
could reect a focus of negotiations on tari s and traditional trade barriers, which are still
high for several low-income economies. Second, in terms of composition, PTAs between
developed countries and those between developed and developing economies include
similar shares of provisions establishing economic integration rights, supporting these
rights, and aiming to regulate exporters (Figure O.9). PTAs between developing countries
are shallower across the board, with a stronger gap in areas such as environment and labor
that aim at improving social welfare.
Figure O.7: Substantive provisions and a breakdown of non-substantive provisions in PTAs, over time
Note: Coverage ratio refers to the share of provisions for a policy area contained in a given agreement relative
to the maximum number of provisions in that policy area. Years refer to entry-into-force date. European Union
agreement and enlargements excluded.
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Figure O.8: Inclusion of substantive commitments in PTAs, by level of development
Note: Coverage ratio refers to the share of provisions for a policy area contained in a given agreement relative
to the maximum number of provisions in that policy area. Years refer to entry-into-force date. European Union
agreement and enlargements excluded.
Figure O.9: Coverage ratio by type of policy and level of development
Note: Coverage ratio refers to the share of provisions for a policy area contained in a given agreement relative
to the maximum number of provisions in that policy area. Years refer to entry-into-force date. European Union
agreement and enlargements excluded.
We next analyze the depth of trade agreements by country. Here, we focus on the
substantive commitments.
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As several countries have multiple agreements with dierent
levels of depth, we present the average number of substantive commitments per country
in panel a of Figure O.10 and the maximum number in panel b of Figure O.10. The main
takeaway is that developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North
Africa, South America, South Asia, and, to a lesser extent, East Asia tend to have fewer
substantive commitments in trade agreements relative to advanced economies. The few
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Annex Tables O.A.1 and O.A.2 provide other indicators by PTA and by country.
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Figure O.10: Substantive provisions in PTAs by country
a. Average number of provisions
b. Maximum number of provisions
exceptions include countries in South America that are signatories to the Pacic Alliance
and other developing economies that have signed deep trade agreements with an advanced
trade partner, such as Mongolia with Japan and Caribbean countries with the EU. In terms
of depth as measured here, North America and Europe are the most integrated regions,
through NAFTA and its successor agreement, and through the agreements the EU has
signed with neighboring countries. East Asia is a region with a mixed prole: the network
of ASEAN agreements includes most countries but tends to have fewer substantive
commitments relative to North America and Europe, except for some countries such as
Vietnam, which have signed on to the Comprehensive Agreement for the Trans-Pacic
Partnership (with a coverage ratio of 61 percent).
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With the increasing depth and complexity of trade agreements, both similarities and
dissimilarities between PTAs could potentially increase. Older agreements that covered
only preferential tariff liberalization and other aspects of market access tended to
be very similar. As PTAs now cover more ground, there can be provisions that are
included in two agreements, making them more similar, or there can be provisions
that are covered by one PTA but not by another, making them more dissimilar. To
capture this information, we construct a similarity index for DTAs, calculated as the
ratio between the number of provisions for which two agreements have a “yes” (a
measure of similarity) and the total number of provisions covered by the agreements,
independently of whether they have the same answer or not. The closer the similarity
index is to one (or zero), the more (or less) similar are the two DTAs; i.e., they include
the same type(s) of provisions.
Figure O.11 plots the degree of similarity for the PTAs signed by the three major trading
blocs: the European Union, the United States, and Japan. Each color represents a DTA
signed by a third country with the US (green bubbles), EU (purple bubbles), or Japan (pink
bubbles). The size of the bubbles represents the depth of the agreements, measured as the
number of provisions covered. Each agreement is connected to the one which is most similar
within a trading bloc. The gure also links the three trading blocs, by connecting the pair of
agreements that are the most similar between two blocs.
As expected, within each bloc, DTAs are highly similar: up to 0.89 for the US (US-Peru;
US-Colombia), up to 0.80 for the EU (EU-Moldova; EU-Ukraine), and up to 0.75 for
Japan (Japan-Indonesia; Japan-Mongolia). This fact often reects a “template eect,” where
the EU, the US, and Japan tend to negotiate based on a template oered to third countries.
Interestingly, the similarity of DTAs is relatively high even across blocs, although lower
than within blocs. For example, the EU-Republic of Korea agreement shares more than
50 percent of the provisions with the Japan-Switzerland agreement (similarity index of
0.54) and with the US-Peru agreement (similarity index of 0.51). These results indicate that
concerns about the fragmentation of the global trade system have some foundation (i.e., they
do not share almost half of provisions), but also point to substantial similarities—based on
which multilateral rules can be agreed upon.
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Figure O.11: Similarity of agreements
Note: The size of the bubbles represents the depth of a trade agreement, as captured by the number of provisions
included in the agreement. Each edge connects an agreement with one that is most similar. Purple bubbles
represent EU agreements with non-EU countries, green bubbles represent US agreements, and pink bubbles
represent Japan’s agreements.
O.4. THE CHALLENGE OF QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF DTAs
Quantication of the eects of DTAs poses a serious challenge. DTAs cover heterogeneous
areas: taris, contingent protection, export taxes, customs procedures, technical barriers in
goods; a wide range of restrictions across modes in services; investment measures, subsidies,
procurement, state enterprises, competition policy aecting both trade and investment in
goods and services, visas and asylum, and a range of regulatory requirements aecting labor
mobility; and a variety of policies aecting the protection of intellectual policy rights and
the environment. How can the diversity of policies be quantied and aggregated within
separate areas? How can we aggregate across the dierent areas? We briey discuss here
two approaches to quantication—directly constructed indices and indirectly estimated
measures—and some analytical issues going forward.
O.4.1 Directly constructed indices
The count variables and coverage ratios presented in the previous section are the simplest
directly constructed indices of depth. They provide an immediate view of how commitments
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in PTAs have changed over time, across countries, and for subsets of provisions. Still, aggregate
indicators based on some form of counting disregard the fact that DTAs cover multiple policy
areas and sectors and that the “value” of each provision is unlikely to be the same even within
the same policy area.
In some cases, it may be possible to construct a hierarchy of measures. For example, in
the areas of services and government procurement, provisions could be divided into three
tiers. Tier 1 would comprise provisions ensuring market access and national treatment at
entry. Tier 2 would comprise provisions on post-entry operation; e.g., preferences or osets.
Tier 3 would comprise procedural rules limiting discretion in licenses and awards. The
construction of an index could then be lexicographic, in that we would consider rst only
dierences between countries or sectors in Tier 1 and move to subsequent tiers only to break
ties. Such an approach is ideally suited to the construction of an ordinal rather than cardinal
(i.e., qualitative rather than quantitative) measure.
A pragmatic approach to overcoming some of the constraints to constructing representative
indices is to rely on experts’ judgment. This is the method adopted in this Handbook. The
individual chapters will oer a disaggregated set of stylized facts for each policy area using count
variables, coverage ratios, and the individual assessment of the authors of the key provisions in
each policy area. We have already discussed the distinction between substantive and essential
provisions. Some chapters go even beyond these categories. For instance, the chapter on
SOEs (Rubini and Wang 2020) identies four commitments concerning issues of ownership,
discrimination, subsidization, and anti-competitive behavior as key. The chapter on technical
barriers to trade (Espitia et al. 2020) identies a subset of seven commitments which are key to
achieving deep integration in the area of technical regulations. This type of information can be
used in the estimation exercises we discuss below, as it allows the researcher to address problems
associated with large numbers of possible variables at hand, such as multicollinearity (i.e., the
high correlation between the dierent provisions within and across policy areas).
O.4.2 Indirectly estimated measures
These measures are obtained by estimating the impact of the provisions on a variable of
interest. For example, we could infer the value of individual provisions by estimating their
impact on bilateral trade, controlling for other inuences. In principle, each binary element
in the relevant DTA areas could be included in a country-product import regression as a
right-hand variable while controlling for applied policies, including taris and non-tari
measures. Similar methods have been used to estimate the Overall Trade Restrictiveness
Index.
16
However, even for trade in goods we have limited degrees of freedom, and in other
16
Kee, Nicita, and Olarreaga 2009.
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areas (such as services), we do not have suciently ne outcome data. In these areas, it may
be necessary to take a hybrid approach, based on rst constructing more aggregated indices.
Another approach is to quantify the eects of DTAs and build indicators of depth using new
statistical methods. As a rst example, we employ machine learning techniques to detect the
inuential variables/provisions in DTAs for trade.
17
“Machine learning” is a generic term
referring to a wide variety of algorithms which detect a certain pattern from a large dataset,
often referred to as “Big Data,” and make predictions based on that pattern. In this case, we
use a method called Random Forest (RF) to calculate the importance of each variable/
provision for international trade ows.
18
Specically, we run as a rst step a structural gravity
model with the standard set of xed eects and then use the residuals as the left-hand
variable in the RF.
Figure O.12 shows the boxplot of scores calculated by the RF of variables/provisions in
PTAs belonging to the 17 (non-tari) policy areas analyzed in this Handbook.
19
The areas
are colored according to their categorization into the three main groups illustrated in Figure
O.3; dark green indicates policies that establish economic integration rights, purple is assigned
to those supporting these rights, and light green to those that promote welfare. Each box
shows the range of the rst (25 percent) and third (75 percent) quartiles, and the black line
in the box shows the median of the scores. The vertical lines extending from the box indicate
the variability outside the above quartiles, and the dots outside of the line are regarded as
outliers. Boxplots are ordered according to the magnitude of the median.
Focusing on the entire set of PTAs, we nd that provisions such as investment, subsidies,
and services, and to a lesser extent, rules of origin and movement of capital have a median
score above the overall score average, suggesting that these policy areas are good predictors of
bilateral trade, after controlling for the usual gravity determinants of trade ows. Provisions
in policy areas such as SPS, environmental laws, and visa and asylum are located at the other
extreme of the distribution of median scores, suggesting a more limited role in predicting
bilateral trade ows. The size of the boxes and the vertical lines also indicate that there are
policy areas such as movement of capital and IPR for which the contribution to trade is
more or less uniform across provisions. For other policy areas such as competition policy and
SOEs, there is more heterogeneity within provisions in terms of their contribution to trade.
17
This exercise has been carried out in collaboration with Kazusa Yoshimura and Edith Laget. Parallel work
by Breinlich et al. (2020) also uses machine learning techniques to precisely quantify the impact of individual
provisions in trade agreements on trade ows.
18
RF is a frequently used machine learning algorithm that predicts a Y variable by combining the results from
hundreds of regression/classication trees. It has the merit of not imposing a linear relationship between the Y and
X variables, which is an advantage when analyzing the impact of a highly heterogenous set of variables, such as the
provisions in PTAs.
19
A score should not be interpreted as a coecient in a regression analysis. It measures how much the accuracy
of the prediction for Y gets worse if the particular X variable is randomly permuted.
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Figure O.12: Boxplot of scores calculated by the RF of variables/provisions in PTAs
O.4.3 Quantication challenges: some analytical issues going forward
Looking ahead, there is a need for stronger analytical underpinnings for any quantication
exercise. Ideally, the “value” of a commitment must be evaluated in light of the objective
that the provision of the deep trade agreement is trying to achieve. In other words, depth
indicators could use dierent weights, depending on whether the outcome variable is market
access, welfare, or another metric. For trade policy, market access may seem to be the most
obvious metric, but for intellectual property rights, welfare may be the more relevant. In still
other areas, such as competition policy, both might be relevant: the market access measure
would include only provisions restricting barriers to foreign entry and operation while the
welfare measure would include provisions requiring action against anti-competitive behavior
aecting consumers.
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One indicator cannot provide a measure of both the trade distortions a country imposes
on its trading partners (market access) and the trade distortions a country imposes on itself
(welfare). For a market access-based measure in the goods context, the relevant question
could be: what is the uniform tari that if imposed on home imports instead of the existing
structure of protection would leave aggregate imports at their current level? And for a
welfare-based measure: what is the uniform tari that if applied to imports instead of the
current structure of protection would leave home welfare at its current level? The relationship
between the two measures is likely to vary across policy areas: positive correlation for taris;
perhaps negative for environmental standards; and ambiguous for intellectual property rights.
A further issue relates to whether we should be interested in what legal commitments do
to the level of a policy or to its variance. Provisions such as the elimination of taris, or of a
national treatment rule in services or government procurement, x the level of protection
at zero. Provisions which legally bind policy (e.g., the permissible levels of fees, subsidies, or
preferences) truncate the distribution of possible policy outcomes by reducing the variance
and hence the expected level of protection. Provisions which reduce discretion, such as
rules on customs valuation, licensing, or procurement procedures, narrow the distribution of
possible policy outcomes.
Finally, we also need to consider whether we should assess agreements per se or agreements
relative to applied policies. If we have the relevant data, the mean and variance shift would
ideally be assessed relative to the prevailing policy (and not just the law or policy on paper
but how it is implemented). For example, a legally binding tari at 10 percent might have a
dierent value depending on whether the existing tari was 5, 10, or 20 percent. The creation
of new databases on applied policies in goods and services trade may facilitate such analysis.
O.5. CONCLUSIONS
The World Development Report 2009 made the case that “thicker” borders between countries
hurt economic growth, especially in developing countries. Policies that directly or indirectly
restrain the international mobility of goods, services, capital, people, and ideas limit, among
other things, the scale of the market, which is vital for development.
20
Deep trade agreements
aim at establishing the rights of economic integration, protecting these rights from importing
governments’ actions that could undo them, and regulating actions of exporters that can have
negative welfare eects. These agreements have developed over time into a key institutional
mechanism for countries to overcome the constraints to economic development created by
the thick borders that fragment markets.
20
World Bank 2009.
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Of course, deep integration is not an end in itself. First, countries at dierent levels of
development may have dierent institutional needs, and trade agreements still need to strike
the right balance between rules in PTAs and the needed discretion at the national level to
pursue desirable social objectives. Second, while many deep provisions may be de facto non-
discriminatory and apply to members and non-members alike, there is still a tension between
the proliferation of regional approaches and multilateral rules enshrined in the WTO.
Therefore, from the perspective of both economic development and global governance, the
ecient set of rules in DTAs is an empirical question.
The wealth of information on the content of the policy areas commonly included in PTAs
could provide new impetus to the analysis of the determinants and impact of deep trade
agreements. Such analysis would also provide the necessary tools to further understand the
opportunities and challenges that countries face in terms of negotiation and implementation
of deep trade agreements.
We suggest three areas of work going forward. A rst step is to improve the measurement
of the depth of trade agreements and quantication of its eects. Beyond simple count
variables and coverage ratios, more work will be needed to develop new analytic methods
to overcome the challenges discussed in the previous section. As shown, machine learning
techniques may provide a useful, innovative approach. Second, the detailed information at
the level of individual policy areas could inform a series of studies to assess how specic
provisions impact trade and other relevant economic variables. As trade policy experts well
understand, the devil is often in the details. Finally, the new data and analysis could provide
essential information to policymakers on priorities for the negotiation and implementation
of trade agreements: nding what potential partners include in their trade deals, identifying
best practices in DTAs and areas where practices diverge or overlap across dierent players,
and assessing gaps between international commitments and domestic legislation.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are highly indebted to Alvaro Espitia for providing background research for this
introduction and more broadly for his outstanding contribution to the production of this
Handbook. Kazusa Yoshimura and Edith Laget worked on the quantication exercise using
machine learning techniques in Section O.4.
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Annex Table O.A.1: Number of provisions included and coverage ratio – by agreement
Entry Agreement PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
into
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
Force
(%) (%)
(Year)
1958 EC Treaty 121 24 13.5 10.8
1960 European Free Trade Association (EFTA) 224 38 24.9 17.0
1961 Central American Common Market (CACM) 155 44 17.2 19.7
1971 EU - Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) 57 11 6.3 4.9
1973 EC-Iceland 57 11 6.3 4.9
EC-Norway 57 9 6.3 4.0
EC-Switzerland-Liechtenstein 58 9 6.5 4.0
EC (9) Enlargement 127 31 14.1 13.9
Caribbean Community and 152 36 16.9 16.1
Community Market (CARICOM)
1976 APTA 68 10 7.6 4.5
1977 Australia - Papua New Guinea (PATCRA) 19 3 2.1 1.3
EC-Syrian Arab Republic 30 2 3.3 0.9
1981 South Pacic Regional Trade and Economic 21 2 2.3 0.9
Cooperation Agreement (SPARTECA)
Latin American Integration Association 32 7 3.6 3.1
EC (10) Enlargement 114 30 12.7 13.5
1983 Australia-New Zealand (ANZCERTA) 108 35 12.0 15.7
1985 US-Israel 90 7 10.0 3.1
1986 EC Enlargement (12) 118 32 13.1 14.3
1987 Panama - Dominican Republic 20 1 2.2 0.4
1988 CAN 116 25 12.9 11.2
1989 Global System of Trade Preferences among 7 0 0.8 0.0
Developing Countries (GSTP)
1991 Lao PDR-Thailand 9 1 1.0 0.4
EU - Andorra 30 6 3.3 2.7
MERCOSUR 161 32 17.9 14.3
1992 Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) 46 8 5.1 3.6
Turkey-EFTA 120 30 13.3 13.5
ASEAN free trade area 133 18 14.8 8.1
1993 Russian Federation - Uzbekistan 34 13 3.8 5.8
Russian Federation - Tajikistan 36 8 4.0 3.6
Russian Federation - Turkmenistan 40 13 4.4 5.8
Russian Federation - Azerbaijan 41 15 4.6 6.7
Faroe Islands - Norway 65 17 7.2 7.6
ECOWAS 99 18 11.0 8.1
EFTA-Israel 101 22 11.2 9.9
1994 MSG 26 3 2.9 1.3
Georgia - Russian Federation 42 10 4.7 4.5
CIS 109 23 12.1 10.3
COMESA 158 40 17.6 17.9
EEA 213 42 23.7 18.8
NAFTA 360 68 40.0 30.5
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Entry Agreement PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
into
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
Force
(%) (%)
(Year)
1995 South Asian Preferential Trade 11 2 1.2 0.9
Agreement (SAPTA)
Faroe Islands - Switzerland 21 6 2.3 2.7
Kyrgyz Republic - Armenia 37 11 4.1 4.9
Ukraine-Turkmenistan 38 8 4.2 3.6
Kyrgyz Republic - Kazakhstan 39 7 4.3 3.1
Armenia - Moldova 39 10 4.3 4.5
EC Enlargement (15) 111 31 12.3 13.9
Colombia - Mexico 254 61 28.3 27.4
1996 Ukraine - Azerbaijan 34 6 3.8 2.7
Armenia - Turkmenistan 36 10 4.0 4.5
Ukraine - Uzbekistan 37 5 4.1 2.2
Georgia - Azerbaijan 38 11 4.2 4.9
Georgia - Ukraine 40 12 4.4 5.4
Armenia - Ukraine 40 7 4.4 3.1
Kyrgyz Republic - Moldova 42 10 4.7 4.5
EC-Turkey 110 40 12.2 17.9
1997 Russian Federation - Belarus - Kazakhstan 12 1 1.3 0.4
EAEC 52 8 5.8 3.6
EC-Faroe Islands 59 8 6.6 3.6
Turkey - Israel 74 15 8.2 6.7
EC-West Bank and Gaza 107 21 11.9 9.4
Canada - Israel 141 21 15.7 9.4
Canada - Chile 290 62 32.3 27.8
1998 PAFTA 11 0 1.2 0.0
Kyrgyz Republic - Uzbekistan 37 7 4.1 3.1
Georgia - Armenia 37 10 4.1 4.5
Ukraine-Kazakhstan 37 6 4.1 2.7
Kyrgyz Republic - Ukraine 39 10 4.3 4.5
EC-Tunisia 126 35 14.0 15.7
1999 Georgia - Kazakhstan 40 9 4.4 4.0
Economic and Monetary Community 57 14 6.3 6.3
of Central Africa (CEMAC)
EFTA - West Bank and Gaza 100 24 11.1 10.8
EFTA - Morocco 130 31 14.5 13.9
Chile - Mexico 265 69 29.5 30.9
2000 Georgia - Turkmenistan 40 10 4.4 4.5
West African Economic and 61 12 6.8 5.4
Monetary Union (WAEMU)
Turkey - FYR Macedonia 73 14 8.1 6.3
Southern African Development Community 84 22 9.3 9.9
East African Community (EAC) 103 32 11.5 14.3
EC-Mexico 121 20 13.5 9.0
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Entry Agreement PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
into
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
Force
(%) (%)
(Year)
2000 EC-Morocco 122 27 13.6 12.1
EC-Israel 125 31 13.9 13.9
EC-South Africa 128 33 14.2 14.8
Israel - Mexico 139 18 15.5 8.1
2001 Armenia - Kazakhstan 38 11 4.2 4.9
India-Sri Lanka 39 8 4.3 3.6
Ukraine - FYR Macedonia 65 19 7.2 8.5
US-Jordan 80 22 8.9 9.9
EC-FYR Macedonia 171 46 19.0 20.6
New Zealand - Singapore 179 34 19.9 15.2
Dominican Republic - Central America 189 44 21.0 19.7
EFTA - Mexico 233 37 25.9 16.6
2002 Asia Pacic Trade Agreement (APTA) - 29 3 3.2 1.3
Accession of China
EU-San Marino 32 11 3.6 4.9
Ukraine – Tajikistan 39 8 4.3 3.6
EFTA - FYR Macedonia 121 26 13.5 11.7
EFTA - Jordan 122 25 13.6 11.2
Canada - Costa Rica 155 35 17.2 15.7
EC-Jordan 162 46 18.0 20.6
Chile - Costa Rica (Chile - Central America) 230 49 25.6 22.0
Chile - El Salvador (Chile - Central America) 230 49 25.6 22.0
Japan-Singapore 237 29 26.4 13.0
2003 GCC 32 3 3.6 1.3
Pacic Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA) 37 1 4.1 0.4
India - Afghanistan 37 4 4.1 1.8
China - Macao SAR, China 60 14 6.7 6.3
Turkey - Bosnia and Herzegovina 77 16 8.6 7.2
EC-Lebanon 93 32 10.3 14.3
EFTA - Singapore 264 52 29.4 23.3
Panama - El Salvador (Panama - Central America) 271 59 30.1 26.5
EC-Chile 301 54 33.5 24.2
Australia-Singapore 303 76 33.7 34.1
2004 SACU 25 7 2.8 3.1
CEZ 45 13 5.0 5.8
China-Hong Kong SAR, China 64 12 7.1 5.4
EC Enlargement (25) 103 29 11.5 13.0
EC-Arab Rep. of Egypt 132 32 14.7 14.3
EFTA - Chile 232 38 25.8 17.0
Mexico - Uruguay 233 59 25.9 26.5
Panama - Taiwan, China 271 73 30.1 32.7
US-Singapore 318 56 35.4 25.1
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Entry Agreement PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
into
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
Force
(%) (%)
(Year)
2004 Chile-Rep. of K orea 330 55 36.7 24.7
US-Chile 348 64 38.7 28.7
2005 Pakistan - Sri Lanka 43 7 4.8 3.1
Ukraine - Moldova 65 14 7.2 6.3
Turkey - Tunisia 87 18 9.7 8.1
Turkey - West Bank and Gaza 104 15 11.6 6.7
Jordan - Singapore 120 17 13.3 7.6
EC-Algeria 132 37 14.7 16.6
EFTA - Tunisia 145 30 16.1 13.5
Thailand - New Zealand 178 28 19.8 12.6
China-ASEAN 184 36 20.5 16.1
Australia-Thailand 197 33 21.9 14.8
India-Singapore 197 37 21.9 16.6
Japan-Mexico 252 35 28.0 15.7
US-Australia 324 61 36.0 27.4
2006 India - Bhutan 8 1 0.9 0.4
Ukraine-Belarus 36 8 4.0 3.6
SAFTA 39 2 4.3 0.9
Russian Federation - Serbia 39 7 4.3 3.1
Iceland - Faroe Islands 66 18 7.3 8.1
Turkey - Morocco 85 18 9.5 8.1
Chile-China 130 22 14.5 9.9
EC-Albania 158 39 17.6 17.5
Guatemala – Taiwan, China 227 52 25.3 23.3
US-Bahrain 237 38 26.4 17.0
Japan-Malaysia 245 47 27.3 21.1
Trans-Pacic Strategic Economic Partnership 260 52 28.9 23.3
US-Morocco 273 52 30.4 23.3
Panama - Singapore 274 52 30.5 23.3
EFTA-Rep. of Korea 296 47 32.9 21.1
CAFTA-Dominican Republic 300 53 33.4 23.8
Rep. of Korea-Singa pore 315 54 35.0 24.2
2007 Agadir Agreement 22 0 2.4 0.0
East African Community (EAC) - 40 14 4.4 6.3
Accession of Burundi
Mauritius and Pakistan 42 7 4.7 3.1
Chile-India 70 11 7.8 4.9
Arab Rep. of Egyp t - Tur key 84 18 9.3 8.1
EC Enlargement (27) 102 29 11.3 13.0
Turkey - Syrian Arab Republic 109 17 12.1 7.6
China-Pakistan 120 10 13.3 4.5
EFTA - Lebanon 142 36 15.8 16.1
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Entry Agreement PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
into
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
Force
(%) (%)
(Year)
2007 EFTA - Arab Rep. of Egypt 150 37 16.7 16.6
CEFTA 153 55 17.0 24.7
Chile-Japan 244 39 27.1 17.5
Japan-Thailand 267 55 29.7 24.7
2008 Japan-ASEAN 67 8 7.5 3.6
Turkey - Albania 73 14 8.1 6.3
Turkey - Georgia 78 15 8.7 6.7
EFTA - SACU 108 21 12.0 9.4
Panama - Chile 145 27 16.1 12.1
EC-Montenegro 194 63 21.6 28.3
Brunei Darussalam - Japan 197 34 21.9 15.2
EC-Bosnia Herzegovina 204 57 22.7 25.6
Pakistan - Malaysia 212 37 23.6 16.6
Japan-Indonesia 222 38 24.7 17.0
Chile - Honduras (Chile - Central America) 226 49 25.1 22.0
El Salvador - Honduras - Taiwan, China 233 54 25.9 24.2
Panama - Costa Rica (Panama - Central America) 241 49 26.8 22.0
Japan-Philippines 251 60 27.9 26.9
China-New Zealand 256 50 28.5 22.4
EC-CARIFORUM 334 74 37.2 33.2
Nicaragua - Taiwan, China 334 95 37.2 42.6
2009 India - Nepal 19 0 2.1 0.0
MERCOSUR-India 52 7 5.8 3.1
EU-Côte d’Ivoire 78 11 8.7 4.9
EU - Papua New Guinea/Fiji 96 14 10.7 6.3
EU-Cameroon 108 18 12.0 8.1
Canada-EFTA 158 23 17.6 10.3
China-Singapore 214 39 23.8 17.5
Colombia - Northern Triangle 223 41 24.8 18.4
(El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras)
Panama - Nicaragua (Panama - Central America) 231 45 25.7 20.2
Panama - Guatemala (Panama - Central America 237 49 26.4 22.0
Panama - Honduras (Panama - Central America) 239 49 26.6 22.0
Japan-Vietnam 250 38 27.8 17.0
Peru - Chile 258 64 28.7 28.7
Chile - Colombia 266 60 29.6 26.9
US-Oman 286 59 31.8 26.5
Japan-Switzerland 292 47 32.5 21.1
Peru - Singapore 306 57 34.0 25.6
Chile-Australia 332 51 36.9 22.9
US-Peru 355 74 39.5 33.2
Canada-Peru 375 79 41.7 35.4
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Entry Agreement PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
into
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
Force
(%) (%)
(Year)
2010 Turkey - Montenegro 71 15 7.9 6.7
Turkey - Serbia 71 14 7.9 6.3
EFTA - Serbia 162 30 18.0 13.5
EFTA - Albania 173 29 19.2 13.0
ASEAN-India 175 29 19.5 13.0
ASEAN-Rep. of Korea 194 31 21.6 13.9
EU-Serbia 209 56 23.2 25.1
Chile - Guatemala (Chile - Central America) 228 49 25.4 22.0
New Zealand - Malaysia 245 44 27.3 19.7
Rep. of Korea - Ind ia 252 45 28.0 20.2
China-Peru 260 44 28.9 19.7
ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand 260 59 28.9 26.5
2011 South Asian FTA (SAFTA) - 30 0 3.3 0.0
Accession of Afghanistan
Turkey - Jordan 82 16 9.1 7.2
Turkey - Chile 93 19 10.3 8.5
China - Costa Rica 176 23 19.6 10.3
Hong Kong SAR, China - New Zealand 211 42 23.5 18.8
India-Malaysia 213 32 23.7 14.3
India-Japan 234 40 26.0 17.9
EFTA - Peru 291 61 32.4 27.4
EFTA - Colombia 330 63 36.7 28.3
EU - Rep. of Korea 392 81 43.6 36.3
Canada - Colombia 401 79 44.6 35.4
Peru - Rep. of Korea 403 77 44.8 34.5
2012 Treaty on a Free Trade Area between members 37 5 4.1 2.2
of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
El Salvador-Cuba 51 10 5.7 4.5
EU - Eastern and Southern Africa 78 16 8.7 7.2
States Interim EPA
Chile - Malaysia 91 12 10.1 5.4
Canada - Jordan 120 29 13.3 13.0
EFTA - Montenegro 206 52 22.9 23.3
Chile - Nicaragua (Chile - Central America) 227 48 25.3 21.5
Peru - Mexico 236 45 26.3 20.2
Mexico - Central America 244 56 27.1 25.1
EFTA - Hong Kong SAR, China 295 54 32.8 24.2
EFTA - Ukraine 302 54 33.6 24.2
Panama - Peru 311 65 34.6 29.1
Japan - Peru 324 51 36.0 22.9
US - Panama 328 71 36.5 31.8
Rep. of Korea - US 344 68 38.3 30.5
US - Colombia 355 76 39.5 34.1
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Entry Agreement PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
into
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
Force
(%) (%)
(Year)
2013 Turkey - Mauritius 55 7 6.1 3.1
EU (28) Enlargement 102 31 11.3 13.9
Ukraine - Montenegro 133 22 14.8 9.9
Rep. of Korea - Tur key 140 42 15.6 18.8
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Singapore 184 27 20.5 12.1
Malaysia - Australia 291 65 32.4 29.1
Costa Rica - Singapore 294 57 32.7 25.6
Costa Rica - Peru 301 64 33.5 28.7
New Zealand - Taiwan, China 340 70 37.8 31.4
Canada - Panama 345 74 38.4 33.2
EU - Central America 395 88 43.9 39.5
EU - Colombia and Peru 399 89 44.4 39.9
2014 Chile - Vietnam 75 5 8.3 2.2
Iceland - China 180 32 20.0 14.3
Hong Kong SAR, China - Chile 189 27 21.0 12.1
Switzerland - China 210 40 23.4 17.9
Singapore - Taiwan, China 274 40 30.5 17.9
EFTA - Central America (Costa Rica and Panama) 356 74 39.6 33.2
Canada - Honduras 357 74 39.7 33.2
EU - Georgia 376 96 41.8 43.0
EU - Moldova 402 94 44.7 42.2
Rep. of Korea - Aus tralia 415 91 46.2 40.8
EU Ukraine 448 111 49.8 49.8
2015 Southern African Development Community 40 10 4.4 4.5
(SADC) - Accession of Seychelles
Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) - 114 38 12.7 17.0
Accession of Armenia
Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) - 117 40 13.0 17.9
Accession of Kyrgyz Republic
Mexico - Panama 169 24 18.8 10.8
Rep. of Korea - Vie tnam 186 18 20.7 8.1
Australia - China 202 39 22.5 17.5
EFTA - Bosnia and Herzegovina 206 48 22.9 21.5
Rep. of Korea - New Zealan d 240 37 26.7 16.6
Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) 243 63 27.0 28.3
China - Rep. of Korea 262 56 29.1 25.1
Japan - Australia 342 63 38.0 28.3
Canada - Rep. of Korea 415 93 46.2 41.7
2016 Pacic Alliance 110 27 12.2 12.1
Costa Rica - Colombia 172 28 19.1 12.6
Japan - Mongolia 210 42 23.4 18.8
Rep. of Korea - Col ombia 267 49 29.7 22.0
2017 Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 136 54.1 61.0
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Annex Table O.A.2: Average number of provisions included and coverage ratio – by country
Number of
PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
Economy
Agreements
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
(%) (%)
Afghanistan 2 33.5 2.0 3.7 0.9
Albania 4 139.3 34.3 15.5 15.4
Algeria 2 71.5 18.5 8.0 8.3
Andorra 1 30.0 6.0 3.3 2.7
Angola 2 62.0 16.0 6.9 7.2
Antigua and Barbuda 1 152.0 36.0 16.9 16.1
Argentina 4 63.0 11.5 7.0 5.2
Armenia 9 77.9 22.2 8.7 10.0
Aruba 1 57.0 11.0 6.3 4.9
Australia 13 253.8 54.9 28.2 24.6
Austria 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Azerbaijan 5 51.8 12.0 5.8 5.4
Bahamas, T h e 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
Bahrain 4 116.0 17.0 12.9 7.6
Bangladesh 5 35.4 3.4 3.9 1.5
Barbados 1 334.0 74.0 37.2 33.2
Belarus 7 88.4 24.4 9.8 11.0
Belgium 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Belize 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
Benin 2 80.0 15.0 8.9 6.7
Bermuda 1 57.0 11.0 6.3 4.9
Bhutan 4 22.0 1.3 2.4 0.6
Bolivia 2 74.0 16.0 8.2 7.2
Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 160.0 44.0 17.8 19.7
Botswana 4 64.3 15.0 7.1 6.7
Brazil 3 81.7 15.3 9.1 6.9
Brunei Darussalam 9 217.3 44.8 24.2 20.1
Bulgaria 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Burkina Faso 2 80.0 15.0 8.9 6.7
Burundi 3 100.3 28.7 11.2 12.9
Cabo Verde 1 99.0 18.0 11.0 8.1
Cambodia 6 168.8 30.2 18.8 13.5
Cameroon 2 82.5 16.0 9.2 7.2
Canada 12 300.3 64.4 33.4 28.9
Cayman Islands 1 57.0 11.0 6.3 4.9
Central African Republic 1 57.0 14.0 6.3 6.3
Chad 1 57.0 14.0 6.3 6.3
Chile 26 218.8 44.0 24.3 19.7
China 14 167.6 30.0 18.6 13.5
Colombia 12 243.8 50.4 27.1 22.6
Comoros 1 158.0 40.0 17.6 17.9
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Number of
PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
Economy
Agreements
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
(%) (%)
Congo, Dem. Rep. 3 94.0 24.0 10.5 10.8
Congo, Rep. 1 57.0 14.0 6.3 6.3
Costa Rica 13 246.8 51.1 27.4 22.9
Côte d’Ivoire 3 79.3 13.7 8.8 6.1
Croatia 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Cuba 2 41.5 8.5 4.6 3.8
Cyprus 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Czech Republic 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Denmark 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Djibouti 1 158.0 40.0 17.6 17.9
Dominica 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
Dominican Republic 3 181.0 39.7 20.1 17.8
Ecuador 2 74.0 16.0 8.2 7.2
Egypt, Arab Rep. 6 92.8 21.2 10.3 9.5
El Salvador 10 229.1 49.8 25.5 22.3
Equatorial Guinea 1 57.0 14.0 6.3 6.3
Eritrea 1 158.0 40.0 17.6 17.9
Estonia 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Ethiopia 1 158.0 40.0 17.6 17.9
Faroe Islands 4 52.8 12.3 5.9 5.5
Fiji 4 45.0 5.0 5.0 2.2
Finland 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
France 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
French Polynesia 1 57.0 11.0 6.3 4.9
Gabon 1 57.0 14.0 6.3 6.3
Gambia, T h e 1 99.0 18.0 11.0 8.1
Georgia 8 86.4 21.6 9.6 9.7
Germany 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Ghana 1 99.0 18.0 11.0 8.1
Greece 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Greenland 1 57.0 11.0 6.3 4.9
Grenada 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
Guatemala 9 244.2 52.9 27.2 23.7
Guinea 1 99.0 18.0 11.0 8.1
Guinea-Bissau 2 80.0 15.0 8.9 6.7
Guyana 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
Haiti 1 152.0 36.0 16.9 16.1
Honduras 10 256.1 55.2 28.5 24.8
Hong Kong SAR, China 4 189.8 33.8 21.1 15.1
Hungary 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Iceland 29 189.1 37.4 21.0 16.8
India 16 92.1 14.4 10.2 6.5
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Number of
PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
Economy
Agreements
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
(%) (%)
Indonesia 7 176.4 31.3 19.6 14.0
Iran, Islamic Rep. 1 46.0 8.0 5.1 3.6
Iraq 1 11.0 0.0 1.2 0.0
Ireland 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Israel 6 111.7 19.0 12.4 8.5
Italy 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Jamaica 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
Japan 16 257.5 47.6 28.6 21.4
Jordan 8 89.9 19.4 10.0 8.7
Kazakhstan 10 73.7 19.6 8.2 8.8
Kenya 3 100.3 28.7 11.2 12.9
Kiribati 2 29.0 1.5 3.2 0.7
Korea, Rep. 17 267.5 50.4 29.8 22.6
Kuwait 3 75.7 10.0 8.4 4.5
Kyrgyz Republic 9 80.0 21.6 8.9 9.7
Lao PDR 9 124.3 21.7 13.8 9.7
Latvia 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Lebanon 3 82.0 22.7 9.1 10.2
Lesotho 4 64.3 15.0 7.1 6.7
Liberia 1 99.0 18.0 11.0 8.1
Libya 2 84.5 20.0 9.4 9.0
Liechtenstein 27 194.0 38.3 21.6 17.2
Lithuania 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Luxembourg 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Macao SAR, China 1 60.0 14.0 6.7 6.3
Macedonia, FYR 5 116.6 32.0 13.0 14.3
Madagascar 4 90.0 22.0 10.0 9.9
Malawi 3 94.0 24.0 10.5 10.8
Malaysia 13 215.1 42.6 23.9 19.1
Maldives 3 26.7 1.3 3.0 0.6
Mali 2 80.0 15.0 8.9 6.7
Malta 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Marshall Islands 1 21.0 2.0 2.3 0.9
Mauritius 6 76.2 17.0 8.5 7.6
Mexico 14 223.9 47.3 24.9 21.2
Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 2 29.0 1.5 3.2 0.7
Moldova 5 140.2 36.6 15.6 16.4
Mongolia 1 210.0 42.0 23.4 18.8
Montenegro 5 151.4 41.4 16.8 18.6
Morocco 6 107.2 21.3 11.9 9.6
Mozambique 2 62.0 16.0 6.9 7.2
Myanmar 6 168.8 30.2 18.8 13.5
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Number of
PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
Economy
Agreements
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
(%) (%)
Namibia 4 64.3 15.0 7.1 6.7
Nauru 2 29.0 1.5 3.2 0.7
Nepal 4 24.8 1.0 2.8 0.4
Netherlands 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
New Caledonia 1 57.0 11.0 6.3 4.9
New Zealand 12 232.0 49.1 25.8 22.0
Nicaragua 8 259.4 59.1 28.9 26.5
Niger 2 80.0 15.0 8.9 6.7
Nigeria 1 99.0 18.0 11.0 8.1
Norway 28 189.4 37.5 21.1 16.8
Oman 4 128.3 22.3 14.3 10.0
Pakistan 9 61.1 8.1 6.8 3.6
Panama 14 245.6 50.9 27.3 22.8
Papua New Guinea 5 39.8 4.6 4.4 2.1
Paraguay 3 81.7 15.3 9.1 6.9
Peru 16 285.2 60.3 31.7 27.0
Philippines 7 180.6 34.4 20.1 15.4
Poland 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Portugal 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Qatar 3 75.7 10.0 8.4 4.5
Romania 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Russian Federation 12 67.9 19.1 7.6 8.6
Rwanda 3 100.3 28.7 11.2 12.9
Samoa 2 29.0 1.5 3.2 0.7
San Marino 2 240.0 61.0 26.7 27.4
Saudi Arabia 3 75.7 10.0 8.4 4.5
Senegal 2 80.0 15.0 8.9 6.7
Serbia 5 126.8 32.4 14.1 14.5
Seychelles 4 90.0 22.0 10.0 9.9
Sierra Leone 1 99.0 18.0 11.0 8.1
Singapore 22 238.1 45.3 26.5 20.3
Slovak Republic 37 170.1 39.7 18.9 17.8
Slovenia 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Solomon Islands 3 28.0 2.0 3.1 0.9
South Africa 5 77.0 18.6 8.6 8.3
South Sudan 1 158.0 40.0 17.6 17.9
Spain 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Sri Lanka 7 37.0 4.6 4.1 2.0
St. Kitts and Nevis 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
St. Lucia 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
St. V i n c e n t a n d t h e G r e n a d i n e s 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
Sudan 1 11.0 0.0 1.2 0.0
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Number of
PROVISIONS COVERAGE RATIO
Economy
Agreements
Overall Substantive Overall Substantive
(%) (%)
Suriname 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
Swaziland 5 83.0 20.0 9.2 9.0
Sweden 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
Switzerland 30 192.0 37.5 21.4 16.8
Syrian Arab Republic 3 50.0 6.3 5.6 2.8
Taiwan, China 6 279.8 64.0 31.1 28.7
Tajikistan 3 42.3 8.0 4.7 3.6
Tanzania 4 66.8 19.5 7.4 8.7
Thailand 10 166.4 29.8 18.5 13.4
To go 2 80.0 15.0 8.9 6.7
Tonga 2 29.0 1.5 3.2 0.7
Trinidad and Tobago 2 243.0 55.0 27.0 24.7
Tunisia 5 78.2 16.6 8.7 7.4
Turkey 19 85.9 18.5 9.6 8.3
Tu r k m e n i s t a n 6 50.0 11.5 5.6 5.2
Turks and Caicos Islands 1 57.0 11.0 6.3 4.9
Tuvalu 2 29.0 1.5 3.2 0.7
Uganda 3 100.3 28.7 11.2 12.9
Ukraine 14 67.9 13.7 7.5 6.1
United Arab Emirates 3 75.7 10.0 8.4 4.5
United Kingdom 37 165.4 39.7 18.9 17.8
United States 14 285.6 54.9 31.8 24.6
Uruguay 4 119.5 26.3 13.3 11.8
Uzbekistan 5 50.8 10.6 5.7 4.8
Vanuatu 3 28.0 2.0 3.1 0.9
Venezuela, RB 3 81.7 15.3 9.1 6.9
Vietnam 10 201.0 37.8 22.4 17.0
West Bank and Gaza 3 103.7 20.0 11.5 9.0
Yemen, Rep. 1 11.0 0.0 1.2 0.0
Zambia 3 94.0 24.0 10.5 10.8
Zimbabwe 4 90.0 22.0 10.0 9.9
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Annex Table O.A.3: Maximum number of provisions included and coverage ratio – by country
Country PROVISIONS SUBSTANTIVE
Agreement Provisions Coverage Agreement Provisions Coverage
Ratio (%) Ratio (%)
Afghanistan India - Afghanistan 37 4.1 India - Afghanistan 4 1.8
Albania EFTA - Albania 173 19.2 CEFTA 55 24.7
Algeria EC-Algeria 132 14.7 EC-Algeria 37 16.6
Andorra EU - Andorra 30 3.3 EU - Andorra 6 2.7
Angola Southern African 84 9.3 Southern African 22 9.9
Development Development
Community Community
Antigua CARICOM 152 16.9 CARICOM 36 16.1
and Barbuda
Argentina MERCOSUR 161 17.9 MERCOSUR 32 14.3
Armenia EAEU 243 27.0 EAEU 63 28.3
Aruba EU - Overseas 57 6.3 EU - Overseas 11 4.9
Countries and Countries and
Territories (OCT) Territories (OCT)
Australia Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
Austria EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Azerbaijan CIS 109 12.1 CIS 23 10.3
Bahamas, T h e EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
Bahrain US-Bahrain 237 26.4 US-Bahrain 38 17.0
Bangladesh APTA 68 7.6 APTA 10 4.5
Barbados EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
Belarus Eurasian Economic 243 27.0 Eurasian Economic 63 28.3
Union (EAEU) Union (EAEU)
Belgium EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Belize EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
Benin ECOWA S 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Bermuda EU - Overseas Countries 57 6.3 EU - Overseas Countries 11 4.9
and Te r r i t o r i e s ( O C T ) and Te r r i t o r i e s ( O C T )
Bhutan SAFTA 39 4.3 SAFTA 2 0.9
Bolivia CAN 116 12.9 CAN 25 11.2
Bosnia and EFTA - Bosnia 206 22.9 EC-Bosnia Herzegovina 57 25.6
Herzegovina and Herzegovina Herzegovina
Botswana EFTA - SACU 108 12.0 Southern African 22 9.9
Development Community
Brazil MERCOSUR 161 17.9 MERCOSUR 32 14.3
Brunei Trans -Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
Darussalam
Bulgaria EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Burkina Faso ECOWAS 99 11.0 ECOWA S 18 8.1
Burundi COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Cabo Verde ECOWAS 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Cambodia ASEAN-Australia- 260 28.9 ASEAN-Australia- 59 26.5
New Zealand New Zealand
Cameroon EC-Cameroon 108 12.0 EC-Cameroon 18 8.1
Canada Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
Cayman EU - Overseas 57 6.3 EU - Overseas 11 4.9
Islands Countries and Countries and
Territories (OCT) Territories (OCT)
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Country PROVISIONS SUBSTANTIVE
Agreement Provisions Coverage Agreement Provisions Coverage
Ratio (%) Ratio (%)
Central Economic and 57 6.3 Economic and 14 6.3
African Monetary Community Monetary Community
Republic of Central Africa of Central Africa
(CEMAC) (CEMAC)
Chad Economic and 57 6.3 Economic and 14 6.3
Monetary Community Monetary Community
of Central Africa of Central Africa
(CEMAC) (CEMAC)
Chile Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
China China- 262 29.1 China- 56 25.1
Rep. of Korea Rep. of Korea
Colombia Canada-Colombia 401 44.6 EU - Colombia and Peru 89 39.9
Comoros COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Congo, COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Dem. Rep.
Congo, Rep. Economic and Monetary 57 6.3 Economic and Monetary 14 6.3
Community of Central Community of Central
Africa (CEMAC) Africa (CEMAC)
Costa Rica EU - Central America 395 43.9 EU - Central America 88 39.5
Côte d’Ivoire ECOWAS 99 11.0 ECOWA S 18 8.1
Croatia EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Cuba El Salvador-Cuba 51 5.7 El Salvador-Cuba 10 4.5
Cyprus EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Czech Republic EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Denmark EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Djibouti COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Dominica EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
Dominican EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
Republic
Ecuador CAN 116 12.9 CAN 25 11.2
Egypt, Arab Rep. COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
El Salvador EU - Central America 395 43.9 EU - Central America 88 39.5
Equatorial Economic and Monetary 57 6.3 Economic and Monetary 14 6.3
Guinea Community of Central Community of Central
Africa (CEMAC) Africa (CEMAC)
Eritrea COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Estonia EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Ethiopia COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Faroe Islands Iceland - Faroe Islands 66 7.3 Iceland - Faroe Islands 18 8.1
Fiji EU - Papua 96 10.7 EU - Papua 14 6.3
New Guinea/Fiji New Guinea/Fiji
Finland EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
France EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
French EU - Overseas Countries 57 6.3 EU - Overseas Countries 11 4.9
Polynesia and Te r r i t o r i e s ( O C T ) and Territories (OCT)
Gabon Economic and 57 6.3 Economic and 14 6.3
Monetary Community Monetary Community
of Central Africa of Central Africa
(CEMAC) (CEMAC)
Gambia, T h e ECOWA S 99 11.0 ECOWA S 18 8.1
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Country PROVISIONS SUBSTANTIVE
Agreement Provisions Coverage Agreement Provisions Coverage
Ratio (%) Ratio (%)
Georgia EU - Georgia 376 41.8 EU - Georgia 96 43.0
Germany EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Ghana ECOWAS 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Greece EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Greenland EU - Overseas 57 6.3 EU - Overseas 11 4.9
Countries and Countries and
Territories (OCT) Territories (OCT)
Grenada EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
Guatemala EU - Central America 395 43.9 EU - Central America 88 39.5
Guinea ECOWA S 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Guinea-Bissau ECOWAS 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Guyana EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
Haiti Caribbean Community 152 16.9 Caribbean Community 36 16.1
and Community and Community
Market (CARICOM) Market (CARICOM)
Honduras EU - Central America 395 43.9 EU - Central America 88 39.5
Hong Kong EFTA - Hong Kong SAR, 295 32.8 EFTA - Hong Kong SAR, 54 24.2
SAR, China China China
Hungary EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Iceland EFTA - Central America 356 39.6 EFTA - Central America 74 33.2
(Costa Rica and Panama) (Costa Rica and Panama)
India Rep. of Korea-India 252 28.0 Rep. of Korea-Indi a 45 20.2
Indonesia ASEAN-Australia- 260 28.9 ASEAN-Australia- 59 26.5
New Zealand New Zealand
Iran, Islamic Economic Cooperation 46 5.1 Economic Cooperation 8 3.6
Rep. Organization (ECO) Organization (ECO)
Iraq PAFTA 11 1.2 PAFTA 0 0.0
Ireland EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Israel Canada - Israel 141 15.7 EC-Israel 31 13.9
Italy EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Jamaica EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
Japan Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
Jordan EC-Jordan 162 18.0 EC-Jordan 46 20.6
Kazakhstan Eurasian Economic 243 27.0 Eurasian Economic 63 28.3
Union (EAEU) Union (EAEU)
Kenya COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Kiribati Pacic Island Countries 37 4.1 South Pacic Regional 2 0.9
Trade Agreement (PICTA) Trade and Economic
Cooperation Agreement
(SPARTECA)
Korea, Rep. Canada - Rep. o f Kore a 415 46.2 Canada - Rep. of Korea 93 41.7
Kuwait Gulf Cooperation 184 20.5 Gulf Cooperation 27 12.1
Council (GCC) - Council (GCC) -
Singapore Singapore
Kyrgyz Eurasian Economic 243 27.0 Eurasian Economic 63 28.3
Republic Union (EAEU) Union (EAEU)
Lao PDR ASEAN-Australia- 260 28.9 ASEAN-Australia- 59 26.5
New Zealand New Zealand
Latvia EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Lebanon EFTA - Lebanon 142 15.8 EFTA - Lebanon 36 16.1
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Country PROVISIONS SUBSTANTIVE
Agreement Provisions Coverage Agreement Provisions Coverage
Ratio (%) Ratio (%)
Lesotho EFTA - SACU 108 12.0 Southern African 22 9.9
Development Community
Liberia ECOWA S 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Libya COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Liechtenstein EFTA - Central America 356 39.6 EFTA - Central America 74 33.2
(Costa Rica and Panama) (Costa Rica and Panama)
Lithuania EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Luxembourg EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Macao SAR, China - Macao SAR, China 60 6.7 China - Macao SAR, China 14 6.3
China
Macedonia, FYREC-FYR Macedonia 171 19.0 CEFTA 55 24.7
Madagascar COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Malawi COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Malaysia Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
Maldives SAFTA 39 4.3 SAFTA 2 0.9
Mali ECOWAS 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Malta EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Marshall South Pacic Regional 21 2.3 South Pacic Regional 2 0.9
Islands Trade and Economic Trade and Economic
Cooperation Agreement Cooperation Agreement
(SPARTECA) (SPARTECA)
Mauritius COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Mexico Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
Micronesia, Pacic Island Countries 37 4.1 South Pacic Regional 2 0.9
Fed. Sts. Trade Agreement Trade and Economic
(PICTA) Cooperation Agreement
(SPARTECA)
Moldova EU - Republic 402 44.7 EU - Republic 94 42.2
of Moldova of Moldova
Mongolia Japan - Mongolia 210 23.4 Japan - Mongolia 42 18.8
Montenegro EFTA - Montenegro 206 22.9 EC-Montenegro 63 28.3
Morocco US-Morocco 273 30.4 US-Morocco 52 23.3
Mozambique Southern African 84 9.3 Southern African 22 9.9
Development Community Development Community
Myanmar ASEAN-Australia- 260 28.9 ASEAN-Australia- 59 26.5
New Zealand New Zealand
Namibia EFTA - SACU 108 12.0 Southern African 22 9.9
Development Community
Nauru Pacic Island Countries 37 4.1 South Pacic 2 0.9
Trade Agreement Regional Trade
(PICTA) and Economic
Cooperation Agreement
(SPARTECA)
Nepal SAFTA 39 4.3 SAFTA 2 0.9
Netherlands EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
New EU - Overseas Countries 57 6.3 EU - Overseas Countries 11 4.9
Caledonia and Territories (OCT) and Territories (OCT)
New Zealand Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
Nicaragua EU - Central America 395 43.9 Nicaragua - Ta iwan , Chi na 95 42.6
Niger ECOWA S 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
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Country PROVISIONS SUBSTANTIVE
Agreement Provisions Coverage Agreement Provisions Coverage
Ratio (%) Ratio (%)
Nigeria ECOWAS 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Norway EFTA - Central America 356 39.6 EFTA - Central America 74 33.2
(Costa Rica and Panama) (Costa Rica and Panama)
Oman US-Oman 286 31.8 US-Oman 59 26.5
Pakistan Pakistan - Malaysia 212 23.6 Pakistan - Malaysia 37 16.6
Panama EFTA - Central America 356 39.6 Canada - Panama 74 33.2
(Costa Rica and Panama)
Papua New EU - Papua 96 10.7 EU - Papua 14 6.3
Guinea New Guinea/Fiji New Guinea/Fiji
Paraguay MERCOSUR 161 17.9 MERCOSUR 32 14.3
Peru Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
Philippines ASEAN-Australia- 260 28.9 Japan-Philippines 60 26.9
New Zealand
Poland EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Portugal EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Qatar Gulf Cooperation 184 20.5 Gulf Cooperation 27 12.1
Council (GCC) - Council (GCC) -
Singapore Singapore
Romania EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Russian Eurasian Economic 243 27.0 Eurasian Economic 63 28.3
Federation Union (EAEU) Union (EAEU)
Rwanda COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Samoa Pacic Island Countries 37 4.1 South Pacic Regional 2 0.9
Trade Agreement Trade and Economic
(PICTA) Cooperation Agreement
(SPARTECA)
San Marino EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Saudi Arabia Gulf Cooperation 184 20.5 Gulf Cooperation 27 12.1
Council (GCC) - Council (GCC) -
Singapore Singapore
Senegal ECOWAS 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Serbia EU-Serbia 209 23.2 EU-Serbia 56 25.1
Seychelles COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Sierra Leone ECOWAS 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Singapore Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
Slovak Republic EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Slovenia EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Solomon Pacic Island Countries 37 4.1 MSG 3 1.3
Islands Trade Agreement
(PICTA)
South Africa EC-South Africa 128 14.2 EC-South Africa 33 14.8
South Sudan COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Spain EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Sri Lanka APTA 68 7.6 APTA 10 4.5
St. Kitts and Nevis EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
St. Lucia EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
St. V i n c e n t a n d EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
the Grenadines
Sudan PAFTA 11 1.2 PAFTA 0 0.0
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Country PROVISIONS SUBSTANTIVE
Agreement Provisions Coverage Agreement Provisions Coverage
Ratio (%) Ratio (%)
Suriname EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
Swaziland COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Sweden EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
Switzerland EFTA - Central America 356 39.6 EFTA - Central America 74 33.2
(Costa Rica and Panama) (Costa Rica and Panama)
Syrian Arab Turkey- 109 12.1 Turkey- 17 7.6
Republic Syrian Arab Republic Syrian Arab Republic
Taiwan, China New Zealand - 340 37.8 Nicaragua - 95 42.6
Taiwan, China Taiwan, China
Tajikistan EAEC 52 5.8 EAEC 8 3.6
Tanzania East African 103 11.5 East African 32 14.3
Community (EAC) Community (EAC)
Thailand Japan-Thailand 267 29.7 ASEAN-Australia- 59 26.5
New Zealand
Togo ECOWA S 99 11.0 ECOWAS 18 8.1
Tonga Pacic Island Countries 37 4.1 South Pacic Regional 2 0.9
Trade Agreement Trade and Economic
(PICTA) Cooperation Agreement
(SPARTECA)
Trinidad EC-CARIFORUM 334 37.2 EC-CARIFORUM 74 33.2
and Tobago
Tunisia EFTA - Tunisia 145 16.1 EC-Tunisia 35 15.7
Turkey Rep. of Korea 140 15.6 Rep. of Korea 42 18.8
- Turkey - Turkey
Turkmenistan CIS 109 12.1 CIS 23 10.3
Turks and EU - Overseas Countries 57 6.3 EU - Overseas Countries 11 4.9
Caicos Islands and Territories (OCT) and Territories (OCT
Tuvalu Pacic Island Countries 37 4.1 South Pacic Regional 2 0.9
Trade Agreement Trade and Economic
(PICTA) Cooperation Agreement
(SPARTECA)
Uganda COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Ukraine EFTA - Ukraine 302 33.6 EFTA - Ukraine 54 24.2
United Arab Gulf Cooperation Council 184 20.5 Gulf Cooperation Council 27 12.1
Emirates (GCC) - Singapore (GCC) – Singapore
United Kingdom EU Ukraine 448 49.8 EU Ukraine 111 49.8
United States NAFTA 360 40.0 US - Colombia 76 34.1
Uruguay Mexico - Uruguay 233 25.9 Mexico - Uruguay 59 26.5
Uzbekistan CIS 109 12.1 CIS 23 10.3
Vanuatu Pacic Island Countries 37 4.1 MSG 3 1.3
Trade Agreement
(PICTA)
Venezuela, RB MERCOSUR 161 17.9 MERCOSUR 32 14.3
Vietnam Trans-Pacic Partnership 486 54.1 Trans-Pacic Partnership 136 61.0
West Bank EC- 107 11.9 EFTA- 24 10.8
and Gaza West Bank and Gaza West Bank and Gaza
Yemen, Rep. PAFTA 11 1.2 PAFTA 0 0.0
Zambia COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
Zimbabwe COMESA 158 17.6 COMESA 40 17.9
