Singapore – Jordan Free Trade Agreement (SJFTA)

The Singapore – Jordan Free Trade Agreement entered into force in 2005. It provides for the gradual elimination of border tariffs on goods traded between the countries by 2015, including for:

• Electric motors, turbines and generators; 
• Mechanical equipment including pumps, appliances, and other advanced machinery; 
• Electric accumulators, transformers, capacitors, batteries; 
• Motor vehicles; 
• Mineral ore, slag and ash; 
• Mineral fuels, oils and other products; 
• Metals and their articles e.g. iron and steel; 
• Semiconductors devices and photovoltaic cells; 

Rule of origins apply to qualify for the preferential tariff treatment, which is granted to goods wholly obtained or produced inn one of the signatory countries, or which satisfy a 35% minimum local value content requirement.

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