In particular, we welcome the ratification of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement by the United States Congress.
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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.
And, ladies and gentlemen, last night as you all know the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement was ratified by both houses of Congress.
In 2011, the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement was ratified by both governments and is projected to go into effect in early 2012.
My views on the wisdom and utility of the Trade Agreement are informed by fifteen years of work on U.S.-Soviet relations, initially as a member of the staff of Senator Henry M.
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In other words, it is not enough that the United States is already largely committed to putting American taxpayers at risk in the context of restored access to Export-Import Bank credits in the event that a Soviet emigration bill is passed, pressures on the Baltic nations are eased, and a U.S.-Soviet trade agreement is approved by the Congress.
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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Obviously, we have concerns about -- you heard the President enumerate those concerns back even several years about some of the auto provisions in the South Korean free trade agreement that was submitted by the Bush administration.
Very few have understood the role of Colombia as a strategic asset to the US. The shameful debate over the free-trade agreement with Colombia led by Nancy Pelosi understands the relation with Colombia as a commercial one and in terms of its domestic effect.
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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.
The long-term benefits of German-Soviet cooperation anticipated by the authors of the Trade Agreement and the Non-Aggression Pact did not materialize.
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.
The JCC sessions will also lay the groundwork for ultimate negotiation of a full-blown bilateral Trade Agreement, of the type abrogated by the Soviet Union in early 1975 over the Jackson-Vanik amendment.
In a real sense, therefore, his victory personifies the dynamic, emerging Mexico being moulded by the North American Free-Trade Agreement a Mexico which, for all its social problems and inequalities, is now less suspicious of the free market and of the United States than it has been in the recent past.
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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.
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