South-South FTAs

Developing countries have joined join the "FTA bandwagon", especially since the early 2000s, and are negotiating bilateral treaties between themselves. Many of these are tariff reduction schemes (more commonly called "preferential trade agreements"), or bases for free trade zones, and don’t intrude much into each other’s economic or social policies.

While they can very seriously affect workers, farmers, manufacturers and other firms in both the participating and nearby neighbouring countries, by quickly shifting trade and capital flows, they usually don’t have the far-reaching policy effects of typical North-South FTAs.

Some are also limited to specific sectors only, like agricultural goods.

last update: May 2012


Government of India | 28-Mar-2022
WIPO | 13-Dec-2019
Accord de libre-échange Turquie-Maroc (pdf)
Turkish Ministry of Trade | 13-Dec-2019
Free Trade Agreement Between Turkey and Morocco Protocol I Protocol II Protocol III Annex I Annex II List I List II List III
Ministry of Commerce, China | 19-Sep-2018
As released by the Ministry of Commerce, China
Ministry of Commerce, China | 7-Aug-2018
Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas, Uruguay | 18-May-2017
Publicado por el Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas, Uruguay