Chelliah says APEC members have been studying how the European Union expanded its free trade area, as well as the ASEAN Australia-New Zealand trade agreement and the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership.
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When the original six member states founded the EU (then called the European Economic Community) in 1958, the UK instead set up the EuropeanFreeTradeArea (Efta).
In particular, it would require local authorities to make information about the proportion of recycled materials that is processed outside the European Community and EuropeanFreeTradeArea (EFTA) publicly available.
New Zealand and the EuropeanFreeTradeArea - Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland - are already on board, and others with Australia, Canada, Mexico and the US are under negotiation, while overtures have been made to the European Union and India.