Does afta create More Trade for Thailand? An Investigation of Some Key Trade Indicators

BIMSTEC 

Comprehensive liberalization 

of trade in goods, services, 

investment, and economic 

cooperation 

Initiated in March 2003 at the 

BIMSTEC meeting in Sri Lanka and 

signed in 2004 in Thailand. Latest 

round of negotiations was held in 

April 2008 in Myanmar 

Source: Author’s 

own 

compilation. Detailed information is available from com>.

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