The Framework for Comprehensive Economic Partnership (CEP) between ASEAN and Japan was signed by the Leaders of ASEAN and Japan on 8 October 2003 in Bali during the ASEAN-Japan Summit.
Scope
- The ASEAN-Japan CEP (AJCEP) Agreement will be comprehensive and will include Trade in Goods and separate chapters on Services, Investment, Rules of Origin, Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary, Technical Barriers to Trade, Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Economic Cooperation.
- For Services and Investment, the AJCEP Agreement provides for enabling clauses for future discussions by the Sub-Committees which will be set up upon signing.
Status
This Agreement will come into force after Japan and at least one ASEAN Member State notifies the Governments of the other signatory states in writing that their legal enactments have been gazetted. It is expected to come into force before end of 2008.
Agreement Text
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