Countries in the Caribbean receive preferential trade access by the United States, generally referred to as the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI).
Moreover, preferential trade agreements between Syria and other Middle Eastern countries closed to western imports provide Mr Samha's company, Amal Samha, with a wide and sheltered market.
These transactions were made possible by President Bush's 12 December 1990 decision to waive the Jackson-Vanik amendment which statutorily linked preferential trade status to respect for human rights.
Half a dozen preferential trade deals sound highly ambitious.
That may be because foreign policy is often about more immediate problems (Britain's William Hague has devoted much effort to securing a preferential trade deal for Pakistan to help it recover from its floods).
Correa's decision to offer the Manta Base to China, refusing to renew the lease to the United States while hypocritically seeking to renew preferential trade privileges under the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act, or ATPDEA, ought to make the US reject the trade agreement with Quito.
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Over half of world trade now falls under some kind of preferential trading agreement.
The U.S. already gives preferential treatment to Latin American imports and an official trade deal would primarily benefit U.S. exporters.
Meanwhile, the South Asian Preferential Tariff Agreement, which took effect Dec. 8, is expected to boost trade and help hold down prices in products made in the subcontinent.
When the current expansion of free-trade accords has covered an overwhelming percentage of world trade, it may be possible for the WTO to fix the system, so no nation has preferential bias with one or another trading partner over others countries.
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