Online reference tool on APEC member economies' trade and tariff regimes
Are you looking to export to one of APEC’s member economies? If so, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum offers the APEC Trade Repository (APECTR), an online reference tool on APEC member economies' trade and tariff regimes.
The APECTR contains links to information on:
- preferential tariffs offered;
- rules of origin applied under Free Trade Agreements and Regional Trade Agreements entered into by APEC members
- most favoured nation tariffs;
- best practices in trade facilitation, including advance rulings on good’s tariff classification, origin of the good, and the appropriate method or criteria to be used for determining the customs value;
- other trade measures, such as sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, and import licensing procedures;
- domestic trade and customs laws and rules;
- procedures and documentary requirements, including general importation/exportation procedures and regulated commodities;
- authorised economic operators; and
- mutual recognition agreements.