ASEAN COMMUNI T Y P ROGRE S S

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TARIFF
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ACPMS
The ASEAN Community Progress Monitoring System (ACPMS) is a project under the

ASEAN-Australia Development Cooperation Program Phase II (AADCP II). It aims to track

pertinent socio-economic progress and trends in ASEAN through the use of outcomes-level

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and the ASEAN

Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC). These series of ACPMS infographics derived from the

ACPMS Report 2017, comprises of four themes which are inclusive development, tariff

liberatisation, connectivity and narrowing the development gap. The 2017 Report, the last of

the three ACPMS report series, complemented the existing broader regional integration

monitoring mechanisms for the ASEAN Community.

Tariff Liberalisation
Pursuant to the commitments made in the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme of the ASEAN
Free Trade Area (AFTA) agreed in 1992, and later in the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) in 2010,
ASEAN continues to make progress in integrating into the global economy through Free Trade Agreements
(FTAs) and Comprehensive Economic Partnerships (CEPs), as reflected in the liberalisation of tariffs on
Extra-ASEAN imports from its FTA Partners.

Preferential Tariff is a tariff schedule under which one or more nations are given lower rates than Most
Favored Nation (MFN) Tariff, i.e. normal non-discriminatory tariff charged on imports.
Intra-ASEAN tariff is tariff schedule applied by an ASEAN Member States (AMS) to imports from other AMSs.
Tariff on imports from ASEAN FTA partners is tariff schedule applied by an AMS to imports from Australia,
New Zealand, Japan, China, Republic of Korea and India.

ASE AN CO MM UNI TY PROGRE SS

M ONIT O R IN G SYSTEM 2017

TARIFF
LIBERALISATION

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Average Intra-ASEAN Tariffs in ASEAN (%)

$
2005-2017
The average Intra-ASEAN tariffs have been virtually eliminated across the 10 ASEAN
Member States, from 3.11% in 2005 to just 0.20% in 2017. The average Intra-ASEAN
tariffs for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam (CLMV), for which flexibilities
were availed, significantly fell from 5.28% in 2005 to 0.46% in 2017, bringing them
closer to the average rate for Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,
5.28 Singapore and Thailand (ASEAN-6) at 0.03%.

4.40 4.44

3.69

3.11 3.00
2.72 2.61
2.58
2.47
1.69
1.95 1.37 1.33
1.87 1.65
1.74
0.55 0.51 0.46
1.32 1.06 0.96 0.68 0.55 0.54
0.79 0.79 0.23 0.22 0.20

0.05 0.05 0.05 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.03

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

ASEAN-6 CLMV ASEAN

Source: ASEAN Secretariat

Average Intra-ASEAN Tariffs by Country (%)

The average Intra-ASEAN tariffs has fallen to below one percent in all 10 ASEAN
Member States. The reductions in imports tariffs were most profound in Cambodia,
Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam (CLMV) during the period of 2005-2017.

8.79

0.64

4.45 4.55 4.52

0.37 0.20 0.63

2.79 2.54
2.49
1.96 0.05 0.01
0.11
1.27
0.03
0.00
0.00

0.00

Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Lao PDR Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Viet Nam
Darussalam

2005
2017

Source: ASEAN Secretariat

Average Tariffs on Imports from ASEAN FTA Partners (%)

Significant reductions in tariffs were also recorded for imports from the ASEAN FTA
Partners of Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Republic of Korea and India over
the past decade.

37.85 FTA Partners Earliest year

FTA Partners Latest year
14.23

12.54 11.69

8.10 2.30 8.19 2.59

7.08
5.99 5.64 5.89
0.22 4.53
1.99
2.96 1.26 1.44
0.01

0.00

Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Lao PDR Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Viet Nam
Darussalam

Earliest year Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam (2005); Malaysia (2006);
Cambodia, Myanmar and Philippines (2007)

Latest year Indonesia (2012); Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia and Malaysia (2014); Lao PDR, Myanmar,
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam (2015)

Source: World Bank World Integrated Solution: http://wits.worldbank.org

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established on

8 August 1967. The Member States of the Association are Brunei
Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.
The ASEAN Secretariat is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

For inquiries, contact:

The ASEAN Secretariat
Community Relations Division (CRD)
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Indonesia
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E-mail: public@asean.org

Catalogue-in-Publication Data

ASEAN Community Progress Monitoring System 2017

Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, October 2018

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2. Economic - Socio-Cultural – Connectivity
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