On 19 October 2018, in Brussels, the European Union and Singapore sign the Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA), the EU’s first FTA with an ASEAN member state, on the margins of the ASEM summit.

The agreement liberalises tariffs, services and public procurement, and includes chapters on intellectual property, non-tariff barriers and sustainable trade. It was signed alongside the Investment Protection Agreement (EUSIPA).

EUSFTA entered into force on 21 November 2019. The text is published in the EU Official Journal (L 294/2019).

The official text is on EUR-Lex / Consilium.

For EU–Asia trade, 19 October 2018 marks the Brussels signature.

The document is available on eur-lex.europa.eu.

EUSFTA of 19 October 2018 remains the milestone of the first EU–ASEAN FTA.

Image: Brussels / Singapore; Wikimedia Commons. Cropped to 16:9.

Source consulted: European Union–Singapore Free Trade Agreement. Treaty text: EUR-Lex — EUSFTA.