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 UN Customs Convention on Containers (2007);
 International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods (1982)
 UN International Convention on Cargo Control Regulations on the Border (1998);
 International Harmonized System convention on goods coding (1998);
 World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement (2016);
 Kyrgyzstan acceded to TIR Convention in 1997.
Kyrgyzstan is a member of:
the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),
the Economic Co-operation Organisation (ECO), the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC)
as well as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
Program (CAREC), the Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA) international
program and the United Nations Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA).
These regional bodies and initiatives involve a number of agreements related to CTR to which
Kyrgyzstan is a signatory.
Most notable are the ECO Transit Transport Framework Agreement (1998) to which Kyrgyzstan
is also a signatory; ECO Framework Agreement on transit transport, which integrates the
principles and provisions of the UNECE TIR Convention;
CAREC Cross-border Transport Agreement;
 TRACECA Basic Multilateral Agreement (MLA) of (1998) to which Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are also signatories;
 the Quadrilateral Traffic in Transit Agreement (1995) for facilitating transit trade by
road between China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan;
 the PRC- Kyrgyzstan -Uzbekistan Transit Road Transport Agreement (1998);
 CIS agreement on weight and dimensions (Minsk, 1999) to which Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are also signatories;
 CIS Agreement on weight certificates (2004) to which Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and
Uzbekistan are also signatories;
 CIS Agreement on harmonization of border customs control (1994) to which
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are also signatories;
 CIS Agreement on customs transit procedures (1998) to which Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
and Uzbekistan are also signatories.