Selection of other relevant trade agreements from various countries (Japan, China, Australia, New-Zealand, Chile, Eastern and Southern Africa, Caribbean region)
This section provides a selection of relevant free trade agreements signed by other countries, which contain their own labour rights provisions and commitments.
Broader access to most FTAs signed by countries other than the United States, Canada and the EU
- Foreign Trade Information System of the Organization of American States (dealing with free trade agreements which are already entered into force, signed, or still being negotiated)
- Website Bilaterals.org
Selection of other relevant FTAs with social clauses
- Chile/China FTA (entered into force on October 1, 2006)
- Chile/China, Memorandum of Understanding on Labour and Social Security Cooperation (November 2005)
- New-Zealand/China FTA (entered into force on October 1, 2008)
- New-Zealand/ China Memorandum of Understanding on labour cooperation
- Eastern and Southern Africa FTA (COMESA) (entered into force October 30, 2000)
(see Chapter 21, article 143)
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Declaration of Labour and Industrial Relations Principles (approved in April 1995)
- Trans- Pacific Strategic Economic partnership Agreement among Chile, New-Zealand, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam (entered into force between May and November 2006)
- Memorandum of Understanding on labour cooperation among the parties to the trans-pacific strategic economic partnership agreement (June 2005)
- Information on Japan’s FTAs (Text of agreements, analysis and articles)
- Information on Australian’s FTAs (text of agreements, analysis, articles and links)