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The European Union has concluded free trade agreements (FTAs) [1] and other agreements with a trade component with many countries worldwide and is negotiating with many others. [2] The European Union negotiates free trade deals on behalf of all of its member states, as the member states have granted the EU has an "exclusive competence" to ...
A multilateral free trade agreement is between several countries all treated equally, and creates a free trade area.Every customs union, common market, economic union, customs and monetary union and economic and monetary union is also a free trade area, and are not included below.
South Korea (European Union–Korea Free Trade Agreement) European Union Central American Association Agreement (EU–CAAA) EFTA is negotiating or is planning bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs: Algeria; Albania; MERCOSUR; Ukraine; Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) EU; Mercosur; India; New Zealand [118] Turkey; India ...
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. [4] The organization operates in parallel with the European Union (EU), and all four member states participate in the European single market and are part of the ...
Economic Partnership Agreements; EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement; European Union Central American Association Agreement; European Union–Singapore Free Trade Agreement; EU–Mercosur Association Agreement; European Union–Moldova Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area; European Union–Vietnam Free Trade Agreement
Free trade agreements or free trade areas are listed as follows: List of multilateral free trade agreements; List of bilateral free trade agreements; See also.
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was created in 1960 by the outer seven (as a looser alternative to the then-European Communities) but most of its membership has since joined the Communities/EU leaving only four countries (Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein) still party to the treaty.
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.