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ANZCERTA Closer Economic Relations (CER) is a free trade agreement between the governments of New Zealand and Australia. It is also known as the Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (ANZCERTA) and sometimes shortened to (CERTA). It came into force on 1 January 1983, but the actual treaty was not signed until 28 March 1983 by the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Trade, Lionel Bowen and the New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia, Laurie Francis in Canberra, Australia. CER built on the earlier New Zealand Australia Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was signed on 31 August 1965 and came into force on 1 January 1966. NAFTA had removed four-fifths of the tariffs between the two countries and quantitative restrictions on trade across the Tasman Sea. However, it came to be seen as too complex and bureaucratic, and in March 1980, a joint Prime Ministerial communiqué was released that called for "closer economic relations". Source : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2012) [on line]. Available on : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closer_Economic_Relations (Accessed the 20.07.2012)

Transmitter : Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci Paris la Défense               Date of Proposal :    01/05/2003      Date of Creation :   01/01/1990      Date of change :   07/06/2012   

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