Tariff elimination is the removal of customs duties on goods traded between parties to an agreement. What counts as eliminated, for which goods, and by when, is set entirely by the agreement’s own text and its tariff schedules. Elimination is usually staged rather than immediate, with products assigned to staging categories — some duty free on entry into force, others reduced in annual steps over a period of years, others excluded altogether. A claim that a product is “duty free under the FTA”, with no date and no staging category attached, is not information. To price a shipment, find the product’s line in the importing party’s schedule, read its staging category, and check the rate applicable this year.
Why this entry carries no source list. The concept generalises; the definition does not. What this term means for your shipment is set by the particular trade agreement’s own text — its origin protocol, its annexes, its tariff schedules — and two agreements can use the same word differently. There is no central authority to cite, and citing one agreement would imply a generality that does not exist. The operative document is the one governing your trade, and it is what a customs authority will read.