On 06 August 2015 Niger, became the 12th WTO member, and the first Least Developed Country (LDC) to ratify the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Nicaragua ratified it on 04 August 2015, the Republic of Korea (South Korea on 30 July, and Trinidad and Tobago on 29 July. South Africa is yet to ratify the FTA.
Botswana was the 8th to ratify on 18 June 2015, Australia the 7th on 09 June, Japan the 6th on 01 June, Malaysia the 5th on 26 May, Mauritius the 4th on 05 March, the United States of America the 3rd on 23 January, Singapore the 2nd on 08 January, and Hong Kong, China on 08 December 2014.