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AFTA consists of the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Agreement which requires that tariff rates for a wide range of products be lowered to 0-5%.
See also: trade bloc
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "AFTA."
Date "AFTA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
"AFTA" is a common misspelling or typo for: afar, aft, after, anta, ate, fat, fatal, fate. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AFTA | English | Automated fluorescent trepomenal antibody-absorbed sera | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: AFTA |
| Non-English Usage: "AFTA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (aphthae, frog, thrush), Italian (aphtha), Portuguese (aphtha, cold sore, thrush, ulcer), Serbo-Croatian (aphtha), Spanish (aphtha, thrush). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Laos | LAOS JOINED ASEAN AND AFTA AS A FULL MEMBER IN JULY 1997, AND APPLIED FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION THE FOLLOWING YEAR. (references) |
Philippines | The six original ASEAN members had an obligation to integrate all items on their AFTA Temporary Exclusion List into the CEPT Inclusion List by the year 2000. The Philippines has indicated informally that it may seek to defer the inclusion of certain sensitive products, including petrochemicals and auto components, but it has yet to make a formal request to do so. The Philippines has also stated that it is considering excluding these and a few other sensitive products from a commitment agreed at an ASEAN Informal Summit in November 1999 for the complete elimination of duties on intra-ASEAN trade by 2010. (references) | |
Political Economy | THAILAND | However, the government continues to ease other import duties in line with WTO and AFTA commitments. (references) |
Trade | Indonesia | Through AFTA, ASEAN members are phasing in a Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) scheme, which will be completed for most traded goods in 2003. (references) |
Vietnam | As part of AFTA, ASEAN members (including Brunei, Philippines, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Cambodia) are committed to making this region a competitive trading area. (references) | |
Vietnam | Nevertheless, Vietnam is committed to reducing or eliminating tariffs and other trade restrictions, since it is a requirement for its membership into AFTA, and if it is to realize its hopes for membership into the WTO. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AFTA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "AFTA" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
afta area asian free trade | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "AFTA": caftan, caftans, draftable, graftage, graftages, haftara, haftarah, haftarahs, haftaras, haftarot, haftaroth, kaftan, kaftans, waftage, waftages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-t" | |
-1 letter: aft, fat. | |
-2 letters: aa, at, fa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-t" | |
+1 letter: abaft, fatal, fatwa, tafia. | |
+2 letters: afloat, aftosa, caftan, fajita, fatwas, kaftan, taffia, tafias. | |
+3 letters: affiant, aftosas, antifat, caftans, catface, catfall, factual, fajitas, falcate, fanatic, fantail, fantasm, fantast, fantasy, fatally, fatback, fathead, fermata, flatcap, flatcar, fractal, haftara, infanta, kaftans, parfait, ratafee, ratafia, taffeta, taffias, tailfan, waftage. | |
+4 letters: affiants, afflatus, aftertax, aircraft, antefixa, antifoam, artefact, artifact, calctufa, califate, camshaft, catfaces, catfalls, facetiae, faineant, falcated, faltboat, fanatics, fantails, fantasia, fantasie, fantasms, fantasts, fasciate, fastback, fastball, fatalism, fatalist, fatality, fatbacks, fatheads, fayalite, fermatas, flagrant, flatboat, flatcaps, flatcars, flathead, flatland, flatmate, flatware, flatwash, flatways, floatage, fractals, fragrant, frittata, fumarate, graftage, haftarah, haftaras, haftarot, haftorah, handfast, infantas, kalifate, makefast, meatloaf, nonfatal, parfaits, pratfall, raftsman, ratafees, ratafias, seacraft, taffarel, taffetas, taffrail, tailfans, toadflax, waftages, warcraft. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 46 54 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. - .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000110 01010100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A F T A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0046 0054 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35405435 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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