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The Free Trade Area of the Americas logo, representing the Americas as geometric figures. The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA, or in Spanish-speaking countries the Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas, ALCA) was a proposed agreement to eliminate or reduce the trade barriers among all countries in the Americas, excluding Cuba.
A multilateral free trade agreement is between several countries all treated equally, and creates a free trade area.Every customs union, common market, economic union, customs and monetary union and economic and monetary union is also a free trade area, and are not included below.
The European Union has concluded free trade agreements (FTAs) [1] and other agreements with a trade component with many countries worldwide and is negotiating with many others. [2] The European Union negotiates free trade deals on behalf of all of its member states, as the member states have granted the EU has an "exclusive competence" to ...
Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement [7] [8] Chile: 1 June 6, 2003 January 1, 2004 Chile–United States Free Trade Agreement [9] [10] Colombia: 1 November 20, 2006 May 15, 2012 United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement [11] [12] Israel Palestine Authority: 2 April 22, 1985 August 19, 1985 Israel–United States Free ...
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. [4] The organization operates in parallel with the European Union (EU), and all four member states participate in the European Single Market and are part of the ...
The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA), official name as the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States of America (French: Accord de libre-échange entre le Canada et les États-Unis d'Amérique), was a bilateral trade agreement reached by negotiators for Canada and the United States on October 4, 1987, and signed by the leaders of both countries on January 2 ...
There are a number of trade conflicts between the two powers, but both depend on the other's economic market and disputes only affect 2% of total trade. A free trade area between the two would represent potentially the largest regional free-trade agreement in history, covering 46% of world GDP. [30] [31]
There are different types of trade agreements that enable preferential market access between India and signatory countries or trade blocs - preferential trade agreements (PTA), free trade agreements (FTA), and Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreements (CECA) and Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements (CEPA).