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Comment: Prospects of a free trade area in South Asia.

  • UPSC 1996
  • 20 marks
  • India and South Asia

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A free trade area removes tariffs among members while each keeps its own external tariff, the first rung of Bela Balassa's ladder of integration. South Asia began with the positive-list SAPTA (signed 1993, in force December 1995) and moved to SAFTA (signed 2004, in force 2006). Three decades on, tariffs have largely fallen, yet intra-regional…

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