The free trade agreement reduced tariffs on 7,881 product categories, or 90 percent of imported goods, to zero.[21] This reduction took effect in China and the six original members of ASEAN: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The remaining four countries will follow suit in 2015.[22][23] The average tariff rate on Chinese goods sold in ASEAN countries decreased from 12.8 to 0.6 percent on 1 January 2010 pending implementation of the free trade area by the remaining ASEAN members. Meanwhile, the average tariff rate on ASEAN goods sold in China decreased from 9.8 to 0.1 percent.[10]
The six original ASEAN members also reduced tariffs on 99.11 percent of goods traded among them to zero.[24][2