International Economic Agreements

Egypt encourages regional cooperation based on peaceful coexistence and economic and political stability. Expanding trade with neighbors and within region is an important step towards integration in international market; this must include sourcing from foreign location and regional and global approach for production and service delivery.
Egypt aims at establishing the appropriate conditions for liberalization and wider access to markets through social cohesion. Egypt has signed multilateral and several bilateral agreements to promote and develop competitiveness of the Egyptian exports, enhance trade, and improve the balance of Trade.
These agreements offer Egypt access to the world's largest markets, and give investors in Egypt a manufacturing base for exports. The agreements will also accelerate the improvement of trade and investment practices.
List of free trade agreements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multilateral_free_trade_agreements
World Trade Organization Agreements
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- Agreement on Agriculture
- Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
- Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
- Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures
- Agreement on Anti-Dumping
- Agreement on Customs Valuation
- Agreement on Preshipment Inspection
- European Trade
- Agreement on Rules of Origin
- Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures
- Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
- Agreement on Safeguards
- General Agreement on Trade in Services
- Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
- Agreement on Government Procurement
- Information Technology Agreement
- Bali Package
Operating agreements
Stages of economic integration around the World (each country colored according to the most integrated form that it participates with):
- Economic and Monetary Union (CSME/EC$, EU/€)
- Economic union (CSME, EU, EEU/EAEU)
- Customs and Monetary Union (CEMAC/franc, UEMOA/franc)
- Common market (EEA, EFTA, CES)
- Customs union (CAN, CUBKR, EAC, EUCU, MERCOSUR, SACU)
- Multilateral Free Trade Area (AFTA, CEFTA, CISFTA, COMESA, GAFTA, GCC, NAFTA, SAFTA, SICA)
- ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) - 1992
- ASEAN–China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) - 2010
- ASEAN–India Free Trade Area (AIFTA) - 2010
- Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) - 1975
- Central American Integration System (SICA) - 1993
- Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) - 1992[1]
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) - 1994
- G-3 Free Trade Agreement (G-3) - 1995
- Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) -1997[2]
- Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) - 2004
- Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - 1981
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - 1994[3]
- Pacific Alliance - 2012[4]
- South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) - 2004[5]
- Southern African Development Community (SADC) - 1980
- Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) - 1991
- Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP) - 2005[6]
Proposed agreements
- 2011 Commonwealth of Independent States Free Trade Agreement (CISFTA)[7]
- 2014 Union of South American Nations (USAN)
- 2021 Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA)[8]
- African Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) between SADC, EAC and COMESA
- Arab Maghreb Union (UMA)
- Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
- Association of Caribbean States (ACS)
- Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA)
- Bay of Bengal Initiative for MultiSectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)
- Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)[9]
- Euro-Mediterranean free trade area (EU-MEFTA)
- Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
- Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
- Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP)
- GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development (GUAM)[10]
- Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
- Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER and PACER Plus)
- People's Trade Treaty of Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA)
- Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership[11] (RCEP) (ASEAN plus 6)
- Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)[12]
- Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA)
- Tripartite Free Trade Area (T-FTA)[13]