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What are the impediments in the development of South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA)?

  • UPSC 2017
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  • India and South Asia

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The South Asian Free Trade Area, signed at the Islamabad summit on 6 January 2004 and in force from 1 January 2006, replaced the positive-list SAPTA with a programme to cut tariffs to 0–5% on staged timetables. Tariffs largely fell; trade did not follow: intra-regional trade is still barely 5% of the region's total. The…

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