ASEAN Free-Trade Partners

ASEAN has established free trade agreements with several major trading partners. The ASEAN+1 Framework includes: ASEAN-China (2005), ASEAN-India (2009), ASEAN-Japan (2008), and ASEAN-Australia (2009). Option (c) is correct as Australia (1), China (3), India (4), and Japan (5) all have free-trade agreements with ASEAN. Canada (2) does not have a formal free-trade agreement with ASEAN, and the USA (6) negotiates bilaterally with ASEAN members rather than through a bloc-to-bloc agreement. Australia signed AAFTA (ASEAN-Australia Free Trade Agreement), China has ACFTA, India has AIFTA, and Japan has AJCEP.