Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA)
SAFTA business guide
- The Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement: A Business Guide will help you understand what SAFTA is, and how it has improved conditions of access to the Singapore market for many Australian businesses.
SAFTA: consolidated text of the agreement
- Full text of the agreement from the Australasian Legal Information Institute
Singapore, 17 February 2003 - Entry into force : 28 July 2003
The agreement is also available in PDF 
Preamble (69KB)
01 Objectives and General Definitions (94KB)
02 Trade in Goods (121KB)
03 Rules of Origin (165KB)
04 Customes Procedures (123KB)
05 Technical Regulations and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (129KB)
06 Government Procurement (134KB)
07 Trade in Services (168KB)
08 Investment (147KB)
09 Financial Services (119KB)
10 Telecommunications Services (155KB)
11 Movement of Business Persons (114KB)
12 Competition Policy (118KB)
13 Intellectual Property (112KB)
14 Electronic Commerce (111KB)
15 Education Cooperation (97KB)
16 Dispute Settlement (117KB)
17 Final Provisions (94KB)
ANNEXES
ANNEX 1: Export Duties (65KB)
ANNEX 2: Rules of Origin (98KB)
2A: Certification of Origin Requirements
2B: Allowable Labour and Overhead Costs
2C: List of Goods which must be subject to the Last Process of Manufacture within the Territory of a Party
2D: List of Goods subject to 30% Threshold
ANNEX 3: Government Procurement
3A: List of Entities for Australia (65KB)
3B: List of Entities for Singapore (65KB)
ANNEX 4: Reservations to Chapter 7 (Trade in Services) and Chapter 8 (Investment)
4-I: Cover Note to Reservations
4-I(A): Australia's Reservations (133KB)
4-I(B):
Singapore's Reservations (221KB)
4-II: Cover Note to Reservations (120KB)
4-II(A): Australia's Reservations
4-II(B): Singapore's Reservations
4-III: Additional Comments (111KB)
ANNEX 5: Technical Regulations and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
5-A: Sectoral Annex on Food Products (153KB)
5-B:
Sectoral Annex on Horticultural Goods (153KB)
Agreed Text of Third-Person Notes to be exchanged at the Entry into Force of SAFTA (92KB)