To date only the Caribbean region, the Cariforum, has completed a comprehensive regional EPA with the EU. This was done in October 2008. However, the majority of Caribbean countries and the EU states still need to ratify the EPA. Although both sides started to provisionally apply and implement the EPA in December 2008, this EPA is still facing implementation challenges. For instance, only 6 of the 14 Caribbean countries that are party to the EPA have made any of the required tariff cuts that were due in January 2011.