It is partly thanks to the success of Aqaba and the free trade agreement with the US that US President George W Bush recently announced plans to expand the free trade zone throughout the Middle East.
In July 2001 Naser Tabasi was dismissed as director of the Free Trade Zone.
Turning America and Europe into a massive free trade zone would be a good start.
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As Woods interprets it, the interstate commerce clause establishes the United States as a free trade zone.
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In fact, President Vicente Fox emerged here as the leading spokesman for a hemispheric free trade zone.
APEC's formal program contains admirable proposals for further tariff reductions toward the goal of an Asia-Pacific free trade zone.
The EU's Mediterranean initiative was launched in 1995 with the goal of establishing a free trade zone in 2010.
It stated the two principal opposing positions regarding the US-inspired free trade zone that would stretch from Canada to Chili.
The cause is even more urgent, now that plans to expand the free trade zone to Australia and New Zealand are being examined.
The same official invites the BBC team to cross briefly through the blue gate into the Iranian section of the free trade zone.
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Established in 1991, the free trade zone covers about 750 sq km in the extreme northeast corner of North Korea, bordering Russia and China.
The BBC's James Reynolds briefly crossed over the Turkish side of the border into Iran, where he was invited into a free trade zone.
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While Asean is already developing a free trade zone with North Asia, Asean officials say there are no plans to extend that to include India.
The head of Abadan's free trade zone, Asghar Parhizkar, told the Irna news agency the auction would take place during a classic car exhibition there.
President Cardoso has also made it clearer than ever before that he wants to bring the whole of South America into a free trade zone.
Second, it should promote a multi-lateral free trade zone in Asia.
Boeing, Caterpillar, Toyota Motor and countless others would have a deep interest in setting up operations, gaining access to the largest free trade zone in the world.
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In addition to the new peace plan, Bush will also discuss his proposal for creation of a free trade zone between the United States and the Middle East, Rice said.
Leaders of the 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere ended their fourth Summit of the Americas this weekend with no agreement to create a free trade zone for the region.
There Washington is in a dispute with Europe over its farm subsidies, and if that disagreement gets resolved, the path is much clearer for a free trade zone for this hemisphere.
Russia political pundits believe that Putin is more interested in created a free trade zone within Eurasia, tapping small and poor nations like Belarus and even Kazakhstan, both not members of the WTO.
Chief among these was a proposal for a hemisphere-wide free trade zone, which would boost investment in the Latin countries as well as expand trade along the lines of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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The driving force behind the commercialization of the Razavi Foundation is Ayatollah Tabasi's son, Naser, who was put in charge of the Sarakhs Free Trade Zone, on the border with the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan.
Johnson believes any vote would result in Britain remaining in the EU. "I think most people can see that the overwhelming likelihood, in fact the certainty, is that Britain one way or another will be part of the free trade zone, " he said.
In China Daily, Prof Gong Jianhua, a maritime affairs specialist at Guangdong Ocean University, welcomes the new coast guard, but says China should promote joint development with neighbours in the South China Sea on the basis of a China-Asean free trade zone to ease "anxiety and suspicion".
It already houses a free-trade zone with warehouses, modern office buildings, and even an airport.
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He would like a loose free-trade zone instead of what he sees as a nascent superstate.
Next year a Brazilian-built deepwater port, backed by a free-trade zone, is due to open.
The first phase of a free-trade zone is due to take full effect on January 1st.
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Eventually passed, CAFCA established a free-trade zone that included the USA, the Caribbean and Central America.
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