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The United States–Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (USBFTA) is a free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Bahrain, signed on September 14, 2004.It was ratified by the United States House of Representatives on December 7, 2005, by 327–95, with 10 not voting.
Future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) is a collective term from futures studies for analyzing future technology and its consequences. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It includes technology intelligence, technology forecasting , technology roadmapping , technology assessment , and technology foresight .
From 1 January 2016, Ukraine and the European Union started provisionally applying a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement.Member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU or EAEU) held consultations on 22 December 2015 to discuss the implications of the agreement concerning the possible duty-free transit of EU goods into the EEU via Ukraine.
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.
The OED records the use of the phrase "free trade agreement" with reference to the Australian colonies as early as 1877. 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.
The FTAA missed the targeted deadline of 2005, which followed the stalling of useful negotiations of the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2005. [3] Over the next few years, some governments, most notably the United States, not wanting to lose any chance of hemispheric trade expansion moved in the direction of establishing a series of bilateral trade deals.
The FTA will abolish taxes in South Korea "on large cars produced in the United States, which U.S. auto makers have long called an impediment to market access in Korea". [45] When President Obama committed to move the Korea FTA in 2010, Democratic members of Congress and Democratic-affiliated groups strongly criticized the decision.
South Korea's first FTA in Middle East and Israel's first in Asia [10] 21 Ecuador: 26 January 2016 11 October 2023 SECA (Strategic Economic Cooperation Agreement) [11] first negotiation commended in 2006 but stalled since; In February 2022 both parties agreed to complete negotiations in 2022 [12] [13] 22 United Arab Emirates: October 2022