International Trade Promotion

The Benefits and Limits of CAFTA

Trade with South America is an important part of the US economy.  It offers both markets for American made goods and imports for American consumers.  Of more important regions the US has trade agreements with many are encompassed in the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement. CAFTA The Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade [...]

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Australia Free Trade Agreement

The trade relations of the United States are complex, each nation with its own rules for commerce regulation to and fro.  Every agreement or sanction with another nation changes the flow of goods internationally with great impact both domestically and abroad.  Of the myriad agreements, one of interest is the Australia Free Trade Agreement. The [...]

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Peru Trade Promotion Agreemnt

In an attempt to open up the global import-export markets to fairer competition, The US has been making many free trade agreements with foreign nations.  One that had a very positive impact is the Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA).  The PTPA was signed in On December 14, 2007, and entered into affect on February 1, [...]

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The TPP Trans Pacific Partnership for Asia Pacific Trade

The United States is continually expanding their goal of free trade into foreign markets with new agreements of various kinds.  One of the newer topics for free import export trade is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) proposed by President Obama in 2009.  The main goal of this trade agreement is for the economic integration in the [...]

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World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Agreement

No matter what a foreign region can offer as much as far as products and markets, arguably nothing is more important to free import export trade and the flow of business than the sanctity of ideas and inventions.  In order to protect that, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has an agreement on Trade-Related aspects of [...]

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Pending International Import Export Free Trade Agreements

When planning for the future, current events that will hold an impact for a long time to come are very important and worth observing.  One current piece of Legislation in Congress at the moment is the three pending Free Trade Agreements or FTAs with Panama, Colombia, and South Korea.  The bills are currently in the [...]

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Key Points of the WTO – World Trade Organization

Many problems and conflicts arise when dealing in international business. There are differences in currency, laws, regulations that make such exchanges complicated. In an attempt to promote the ease of trade people created the World Trade Organization (WTO).  The main purpose of the WTO is to ensure unrestricted international trade, predictability of the market, and [...]

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