[19] The members of the Eurasian Economic Union use a grandfather clause (Article 102 of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union) in order to apply the CIS FTA Treaty and the other agreements (both 1993 and 2009 rules of origin[20]) with third countries concluded before 1 January 2015 but they do not have the national competence to independently conclude new free trade in goods agreements after 2015.

[21] The Commonwealth of Independent States Free Trade Zone Agreement, proposed since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, was signed on 18 October 2011 by Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Moldova and Armenia.

Initially, the treaty was only ratified by Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine,[23][24] however by the end of 2012, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and Moldova had also completed ratification.

From 1 January 2016, Ukraine and the European Union started provisionally applying a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement.

[31] Nonetheless, Russia promulgated a decree in mid-December 2015 suspending its CIS Free Trade Agreement with respect to Ukraine from 1 January 2016.

On 1 November 2022, Verkhovna Rada MP Roksolana Pidlasa made a draft bill to denounce the proposed to Treaty on the Free Trade Area (CIS) dated 18 October 2011.