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	As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
	April 18, 2017
	Registration No. 333-515
	811-07513


	SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
	WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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	FORM N-1A
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	REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	/ X /
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	Pre-Effective Amendment No.	/ /
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	Post-Effective Amendment No. 262	/ X /
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	REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY	/ X /
	ACT OF 1940	----
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	Amendment No. 263	/ X /
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	PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST
	(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

	One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
	(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

	Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code
	(617) 292-1000
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	It is proposed that this filing will become effective
	(check appropriate box)
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/ /	immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
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/ X /	on March 30, 2017 pursuant to paragraph (b)
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/ /	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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/ /	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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/ /	75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
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/ /	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.
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If appropriate, check the following box:
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/ /	this post-effective amendment designates a new
----	effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

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	ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President
	PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST
	One Post Office Square
	Boston, Massachusetts 02109
	(Name and address of agent for service)
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	Copy to:

	BRYAN CHEGWIDDEN, Esquire
	ROPES & GRAY LLP
	1211 Avenue of the Americas
	New York, New York 10036
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This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrant's Putnam Emerging Markets Income Fund, Putnam Global Dividend Fund, Putnam Intermediate-Term Municipal Income Fund and Putnam Short-Term Municipal Income Fund, each a series of Putnam Funds Trust. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 18^th day of April, 2017.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:

*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 150 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on September 28, 2012.

** Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 247 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on November 25, 2016.

*** Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 261 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on March 29, 2017.

Jonathan S. Horwitz*	Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance
	Liaison

Janet C. Smith**	Vice President, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer
	and Assistant Treasurer