The market access and trade disciplines provided by the Agreement offer an opportunity to further expand U.S. exports to a region that is already seeing high export growth rates.
So we look forward to consulting with Canada, as well as our TPP partners and others, about how all of us can meet the high standards demanded by this trade agreement.
Their lobbying has been sharpened by America's looming free-trade agreement with South Korea, recently ratified by Congress and now awaiting approval in the National Assembly in Seoul.
The situation is further hurt by the failure of the U.S. Congress to ratify the free trade agreement that was agreed to by the two countries a year ago.
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It was a victory for free trade, island style: the World Trade Organization ruling that the U.S. violated the General Agreement on Trade in Services by banning transactions with Internet gambling sites on the island of Antigua.
It wants to conclude a free-trade agreement with China by the end of the decade.
In 2011, the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement was ratified by both governments and is projected to go into effect in early 2012.
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Clinton called the policies of free trade such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), promoted by her own husband, a "mistake".
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Stephen Pope, managing partner at Spotlight Ideas, pinpoints Mexico, which since 1994 has been reformed by the NAFTA free trade agreement.
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Swiss watchmakers' sales could be boosted by a free-trade agreement being completed between Switzerland and China amid expectations China will lower tariffs.
However, largely absent from the broader narrative is the Trans Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement currently being negotiated by the United States and 10 of its trading partners that will test either candidate as the next round of negotiations is set to take place in December.
Now it's Europe's turn, with demonstrations over the weekend against another piece of anti-piracy legislation Acta, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. (By the way, there is a good explanation of all of the various anti-piracy measures here.) Now, for all the online anger, this is not an issue that has really caught the public imagination in the UK. The crowd at London's anti-Acta demo numbered no more than a few hundred.
The Doha trade talks were supposed to be finished by now, culminating in an ambitious agreement to free trade in farm goods and services.
Both assessments are correct, as we have witnessed in virtually every free-trade agreement (FTA) enacted by recent administrations.
But as I recall, with the Korea free trade agreement, that was deemed by conventional wisdom as an example of us not getting something done.
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Reddy is lobbying the Indian government to adopt and enforce the international drug-patent regime, something Delhi has promised to do by 2005 under a World Trade Organization agreement.
Although the article's focus was on obscure courts created by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a similar interference in our jurisprudence is predictable as the European Court of Justice (ECJ) flexes its muscle.
Europe's most senior trade official has said that a free-trade agreement between the US and European Union would boost its growth by as much as 1%, leading to many more jobs.
In addition, the monopolies that have protected many oldsters will take time to dismantle, even with the backing of the liberalising agreement negotiated by the World Trade Organisation earlier this year.
U.S. exporters are at a disadvantage, isolated by the lack of even one international trade agreement in almost five years.
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In a few days' time, Mr Garcia will visit President Bush in Washington to try to ratify a free trade agreement which has been thrown into doubt by the Democrat-led congress.
Translation: Japan should give priority to and focus first on the talks being promoted by Beijing to create a regional Free Trade Agreement (FTA) which would closely bind China, Japan, and Korea.
An agreement to bring in free trade in cars by 2007 has been postponed.
And in June 2010, the two countries signed an historic trade pact that was described by some analysts as the most significant agreement in 60 years of separation.
Attempting to retard this positive evolutionary process by stop-gap measures such as the present trade agreement with a reconfigured union will probably only result in increased estrangement and desperation on the part of the most independent republics.
It provocatively points out that the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA), now set for passage by the U.S. Congress, will soon put Japan at a further disadvantage to its arch-rival, a situation which would only be remedial by accession to the TPP.
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The agreement is designed to boost trade between the two blocs by removing various tariffs and customs barriers.
The new agreement, which revises a 2007 Korean trade pact negotiated by President Bush, was announced late Friday afternoon.
Critical to the Colombian strategy is approval by the U.S. Congress of the pending free trade agreement.
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