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	NAFTA for the Americas Q&A on the FTAA (Free Trade Agreement of the Americas)
		NAFTA for the Americas QandA on the FTAA (Free Trade Agreement of the Americas)
		The FTAA is a proposed free trade agreement between the economies of 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere, stretching from Canada to Chile.
		The FTAA is likely to contain a number of provisions that are not included in the WTO, and which push a deregulatory agenda even beyond that embodied in the WTO.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /NAFTA_FTAA/QA_NAFTA_Americas.html (2735 words)

	FTAA: The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas Threatens Freedom in the US
		FTAA is a huge extension of the principles behind NAFTA, aimed at increasing international government, not strengthening the United States.
		NAFTA was promoted as a trade pact that would stimulate booming prosperity by freeing and increasing trade between Mexico, Canada and the U.S. While some of the giant U.S. corporations and selected industries have profited handsomely from NAFTA, its overall effect was to speed up the hemorrhaging of U.S. jobs and industry to foreign countries.
		CAFTA, along with a host of bilateral trade agreements, is an important part of the piecemeal approach that the administration is using to build incremental support for the final FTAA push.
	www.jefflindsay.com /snippets/ftaa.shtml (1062 words)

	Free Trade Agreement Agreement and the Environment
		Negotiations to form a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) began in December 1994 in Miami at the Summit of the Americas with the goal of concluding negotiations by 2005.
		Trade principles of "proportionali ty"mean that, as in the energy sector, Canadians could never in effect end trade in water regardless of the environmental effects in Canada or the nee ds of Canadians.
		FREE TRADE AND THE U.S. One of the primary reasons for the low demand for Canadian seals on the int ernational market is the decision by some nations in Europe, and the United States in particular, not to accept seal fur and other seal products into their markets.
	www.earthhopenetwork.net /free_trade_agreement.htm (5110 words)

	U.S. Trade Agreements with Chile and Singapore: Steps to Global Free Trade Agreement
		Pursuing trade agreements with countries such as these is strategically important for the United States in order to advance free trade, encourage economic liberalization, and at the same time promote U.S. interests in the region.
		America's free trade policies have created a level of competition in the open market that engenders an upward spiral of innovation, which leads in turn to better products, better-paying jobs, new markets, and more investment.
		To conclude free trade agreements with Chile and Singapore is to show the United States' true commitment to advancing free trade, especially with nations that have demonstrated a proven commitment to open markets.
	www.heritage.org /Research/TradeandForeignAid/EM715.cfm (954 words)

	World News & Prophecy > August 2001 > Free Trade Area of the Americas—What Will Happen to Latin America? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Lawrence Harrison writes: "As we approach the end of the 20th Century, Latin America is roughly fifty years behind the United States and Canada in terms of the prosperity of its citizens and the solidity of its democratic institutions" (ibid, p.
		Whether free trade is reached throughout the western hemisphere, one can be sure that Europe is watching these developments closely.
		Latin America's desire to embrace globalization and free markets could lead it to make an economic pact with a coming world economic system that is unveiled in the 18th chapter of Revelation.
	www.wnponline.org /wnp/wnp0108/trade.htm (1346 words)

	The Americas Business Forum in Belo Horizonte makes strong strides towards a Free Trade Agreement for the Americas ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Americas Business Forum is designed to bring government and private sector leaders from throughout the Hemisphere together to address issues related to the conclusion of a Free Trade Agreement for the Americas (FTAA).
		According to Daley, "The FTAA must be a trade agreement for the 21st Century, not merely the last one of the 20th." He challenged the governments of the Americas to tackle tomorrow's trade issues, such as: transparency, rights of establishment, intellectual property, forced technology transfer, standards, electronic commerce, commercial law development, and corruption.
		Trade in the Andean Pact region (Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador), tripled from 3 percent in 1990 to 9 percent in 1995.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1052/is_n6_v118/ai_19480314 (863 words)

	Public Citizen \| FTAA - Free Trade Area of the Americas - Free Trade Area of the Americas
		FTAA - Free Trade Area of the Americas - Free Trade Area of the Americas
		The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), currently being negotiated by 34 countries of the Americas, is intended to be the most far-reaching trade agreement in history.
		Although it is based on the model of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it goes far beyond NAFTA in its scope and power.
	www.citizen.org /trade/ftaa (225 words)

	CorpWatch : Americas: Free-Trade Draft Exposes Rifts, Opportunities for Critics
		Like other trade specialists, she hadn't fully digested the entire document, which was released on the eve of the annual US independence day holiday.
		He said the FTAA is "eminently defeatable" if citizen groups join with governments in opposing the agreement, as they did during the 1999 ministerial meeting of the WTO.
		But at the citizen level, Cavanagh added, the FTAA draft is a non-starter because it reproduces the worst parts of NAFTA, such as the investment chapter, while adding none of its good aspects, such as the labour and environmental side agreements.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=65 (1127 words)

	Free Trade Area of the Americas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The proposed agreement is an extension of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico and the United States.
		Talks began with the Summit of the Americas in Miami on December 11, 1994, but the FTAA came to public attention during the Quebec City Summit of the Americas in 2001, a meeting targeted by massive anti-corporatization and anti-globalization protests.
		One of the main critics of the FTAA is Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who has described it as an "annexation plan"[1] and a "tool of imperialism" for the exploitation of Latin America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_Trade_Area_of_the_Americas (1196 words)

	ASIL Insight--The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
		Goods produced in a territory of a free trade partner with lower labor costs may benefit from an additional advantage because the labor savings will be passed on to consumers in the free trade partner-state in addition to the savings passed on as a result of duty-free entry.
		Hemispheric infrastructure is also considered within the free trade context as governments are requested to develop mechanisms in the form of multilateral and bilateral commitments on regulatory and legal rules to encourage investment in domestic and foreign infrastructure projects.
		Indeed, the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) was considered to be a necessity to passage of the NAFTA in the United States Congress in 1993.
	www.asil.org /insights/insight3.htm (2442 words)

	NOT THIS TRADE AGREEMENT
		The FTAA represents the institutionalization of the neoliberal agenda all across the Western Hemisphere; a NAFTA for the entire region.
		While some Latin America and Caribbean economies grew, such growth was always at the expense of the vast majorities of the people living in these countries.
		To promote "free trade" a U.S./Canadian agreement was signed in 1989, the prelude to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which was approved by Congress (after an intense political opposition led by labor and environmentalists) in 1993 and became operational between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico in January, 1994.
	www.zmag.org /CrisesCurEvts/Globalism/noftaa.htm (925 words)

	Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the Free Trade Area of the Americas
		The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is another example of the free-market fundamentalism that has created a global race-to-the-bottom that threatens the environment, families' livelihoods, human rights, and democracy.
		The export-driven growth model promoted by "free trade" agreements and the policies of the World Bank and the IMF have destroyed ecosystems around the world.
		The FTAA is expected to force countries to privatize services such as education, health care, energy and water.
	www.globalexchange.org /campaigns/ftaa/topten.html (1193 words)

	Fact Sheet -- U.S. - Central America Free Trade Agreement
		A U.S.-Central America free trade agreement would ensure that American workers and companies are not disadvantaged, build on the $4 billion of U.S. investment in the region, and avoid erosion of U.S. competitiveness.
		The proposed free trade agreement with the United States would commit these countries to even greater openness and transparency, which would deepen the roots of democracy, civil society, and the rule of law in the region, as well as reinforce market reforms.
		A free trade agreement would be reciprocal, and without a limited term, unlike current statutory trade preference laws, assuring all partners of a long-term outlook that will strengthen North American cooperation with Central America.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2002/01/20020116-11.html (805 words)

	Regional Free Trade Agreements in the Americas
		From the U.S. trade perspective, the focus is based on exportation of e-commerce services, not on the reduction of costs to U.S. businesses and consumers by the importation of cheap foreign services.
		With the failure of the Free Trade Agreement for the Americas to make substantial headway despite regional talks in Miami in November 2003, the U.S. has proposed free trade agreements with only six Latin countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama and Peru.
		For this reason, the prospects for the emergence of Latin America as a source of new BPO outsourcing services is probably not as bright as they could be.
	www.outsourcing-law.com /regional_free_trade_agreements.htm (1593 words)

	The high price of 'free' trade
		NAFTA is a free trade and investment agreement that provided investors with a unique set of guarantees designed to stimulate foreign direct investment and the movement of factories within the hemisphere, especially from the United States to Canada and Mexico.
		Trade, however, is also expected to increase the wages of the workers producing exports, but growing trade deficits have meant that the number of workers hurt by imports has exceeded the number who have benefited through increased exports.
		As the trade deficit limits jobs in the manufacturing sector, the new supply of workers to the service sector (from displaced workers plus young workers not able to find manufacturing jobs) depresses the wages of those already holding service jobs.
	www.epinet.org /content.cfm/briefingpapers_bp147 (4867 words)

	Ten Reasons to Oppose the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA)
		The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), currently being negotiated among all countries in the Americas except for Cuba, is targeted to take effect in 1995.
		Under the FTAA, multi-national companies who move their operations to a developing country would be required to pay little or nothing in the way of taxes to the local governments.
		There is a debate among those who oppose the FTAA as to whether it should be rejected outright or whether grassroots roots groups should focus their energies on getting environmental and labor protection clauses passed as part of the agreement.
	www.epica.org /Programs/alternatives/reasonsftaa.htm (3151 words)

	U.S.-Backed Trade Pact Meets Strong Opposition in Ecuador
		The FTAA "will put an end to life, natural resources, national production, and the environment" and worsen "poverty, hunger, and unemployment" in the country, said the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), one of the major groups backing the march.
		Opposition to the FTAA has been strengthened by the experience of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)--involving the U.S., Canada, and Mexico--which serves as a model for the new plan.
		The Quito meeting of trade ministers is the latest in a series of negotiations that the U.S. hopes will result in a finalized FTAA by 2005.
	www.globalenvision.org /library/8/290 (628 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Push for free trade in Americas
		The aim is to settle deep differences between the Americas' two biggest countries, the US and Brazil, ahead of a 34-country summit on 17 November.
		The "Free Trade Agreement of the Americas" (FTAA) is meant to be signed off by the end of this year.
		But in the wake of the collapse of world trade talks in the Mexican resort of Cancun in September, the chances of thrashing out a deal are looking remote.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/3249345.stm (436 words)

	ERS/USDA Briefing Room - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
		The agreement also facilitates cross-border investment, requires that sanitary and phytosanitary standards for trade be scientifically based, and expands cooperation regarding the environment and labor.
		Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS) provides U.S. agricultural exports and imports, volume and value, by country, by commodity, and by calendar year, fiscal year, and month, for varying periods, such as 1935 to the present or 1989 to the present.
		U.S.-Mexico agricultural trade was the subject of a paper by ERS economist Steven Zahniser at a conference entitled Doha, NAFTA, and California Agriculture on January 13, 2006, in Sacramento, California.
	www.ers.usda.gov /briefing/nafta (1017 words)

	ALCA - FTAA - ZLEA - Official Website of the Free Trade Area of the Americas Process (FTAA)
		Free Trade Area of the Americas - FTAA
		We recognize and welcome the interests and concerns that different sectors of society have expressed in relation to the FTAA.
		Ministers Responsible for Trade in the FTAA participating countries, San José, Costa Rica, March 1998
	www.ftaa-alca.org /alca_e.asp (157 words)

	FTAA: Free Trade Area of the Americas
		The Central American Free Trade Agreement was signed in 2004 - find out how you can stop CAFTA from becoming a stepping stone to the FTAA.
		The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is an attempt to expand the failed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to every country in Central America, South America and the Caribbean, except Cuba.
		Groups around the hemisphere have also been working together on an alternative agreement that will offer a workable vision of what a fair trade agreement would look like (see www.asc-hsa.org).
	www.globalexchange.org /ftaa (408 words)

	FTAA: The Free Lunch Agreement of the Americas
		Now that President Bush has won blank-check fast track trade authority, largely to negotiate a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, he's providing a preview of his negotiating strategy.
		After all, the administration has already extended and broadened the unilateral Andean Pact (made necessary by the extension of the equally unilateral Caribbean Basin agreement of 2000) and most of the countries belonging to the FTAA area are nearly as broke as Argentina.
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	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/744622/posts (392 words)

	US/LEAP: Worker Rights and U.S. Trade Policy
		Other groups are more actively engaged in directly confronting free trade agreements such as the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) or the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), and the governing world trade body, the World Trade Organization (WTO).
		The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is a proposed trade agreement that would liberalize trade between every country in Central America, South America, the Caribbean (except Cuba) and North America.
		The FTAA negotiations are opposed by many trade unions and other civil society actors who are concerned that the agreement will undermine safeguards for workers, the environment, small farmers, and public services and who are opposed to the negotiations taking place in secret.
	www.usleap.org /trade/tradetemp.html (2472 words)

	ONIA - Free Trade Area of the Americas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In December 1994, at the first Summit of the Americas, the 34 democratically elected Heads of State of the Western Hemisphere agreed to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005.
		The FTAA will eliminate trade and investment barriers on virtually all goods and services traded by member countries, reducing prices for consumers and creating new markets for producers throughout the hemisphere.
		To speak with an international trade specialist regarding the Free Trade Area of the Americas, please call (202) 482-0393.
	www.mac.doc.gov /ftaa2005 (156 words)

	Public Citizen \| NAFTA - North America Free Trade Agreement - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
		Plus, until NAFTA “trade” agreements only dealt with cutting tariffs and lifting quotas to set the terms of trade in goods between countries.
		They made their pie-in-the-sky promises of NAFTA benefits based on trade theory and ideological prejudice for anything with the term “free trade” attached to it.
		The same interests who got us into NAFTA are now pushing to expand it and lock in 31 more countries in Latin American and the Caribbean through the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and five Central American countries through a Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
	www.citizen.org /trade/nafta/index.cfm (629 words)

	Trade Madness
		One U.S. gambit in response has been to propose a free trade agreement with Chile - the message to Brazil is to get on the hemispheric trade agreement train or be left at the station.
		In a trade agreement recently concluded with Jordan, the United States restricted the basis for compulsory licensing - by which a government can instruct a patent holder to license the right to use its patent to a company, government agency, or other party.
		The U.S. language seeking to alleviate concerns that an FTAA agreement will permit countries only to adopt services regulations that are the "least trade restrictive" also falls short of satisfying critics.
	multinationalmonitor.org /mm2001/01april/corp3.html (2754 words)

	Trading in Our Democracy?
		The unambiguous purpose of the bill is greasing the wheels for passage of the “Free Trade” Agreement of the Americas (FTAA).
		What has local and state officials worried is that the FTAA would extend further the privileges bestowed upon transnational corporations under the Chapter 11 provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement to challenge as a “trade restriction” any local or state law that impedes profit maximization.
		The language in the FTAA further threatens the Constitution.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/0812-05.htm (881 words)

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