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  2. Free trade - Wikipedia

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    States can unilaterally reduce regulations and duties on imports and exports, as well as form bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements. Free trade areas between groups of countries, such as the European Economic Area and the Mercosur open markets, establish a free trade zone among members while creating a protectionist barrier between ...

  3. Free trade agreement - Wikipedia

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    The OED records the use of the phrase "free trade agreement" with reference to the Australian colonies as early as 1877. [9] After the WTO's World Trade Organization - which has been considered by some as a failure for not promoting trade talks, but a success by others for preventing trade wars - states increasingly started exploring options to conclude FTAs.

  4. United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement - Wikipedia

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    The Agreement between the United States of America, Mexico, and Canada (USMCA) [1] [Note 1] is a free trade agreement among the United States, Mexico, and Canada.It replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) implemented in 1994, [2] [3] [4] and is sometimes characterized as "NAFTA 2.0", [5] [6] [7] or "New NAFTA", [8] [9] since it largely maintains or updates the provisions of ...

  5. Free trade area - Wikipedia

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    A free trade area is the region encompassing a trade bloc whose member countries have signed a free trade agreement (FTA). Such agreements involve cooperation between at least two countries to reduce trade barriers, import quotas and tariffs, and to increase trade of goods and services with each other.

  6. North American Free Trade Agreement - Wikipedia

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    NAFTA GDP – 2012: IMF – World Economic Outlook Databases (October 2013) The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA / ˈ n æ f t ə / NAF-tə; Spanish: Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; French: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America.

  7. Free trade agreements of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement [6] [7] Chile: 1 June 6, 2003 January 1, 2004 Chile–United States Free Trade Agreement [8] [9] Colombia: 1 November 20, 2006 May 15, 2012 United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement [10] [11] Israel Palestine Authority: 2 April 22, 1985 August 19, 1985 Israel–United States Free ...

  8. Foreign trade of the United States - Wikipedia

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    After the Great Depression, the country emerged as among the most significant global trade policy-makers, and it is now a partner to a number of international trade agreements, including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Gross U.S. assets held by foreigners were $16.3 trillion as of the ...

  9. Spaghetti bowl effect - Wikipedia

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    The term was first used by Jagdish Bhagwati in 1995 in the paper: “US Trade policy: The infatuation with free trade agreements”, [1] where he openly criticized FTAs as being paradoxically counter-productive in promoting freer and more opened global trades. According to Bhagwati, too many crisscrossing FTAs would allow countries to adopt ...