What does FTA stand for?

Byline: Mamta03 South Asia has taken several steps to strengthen regional economic ties, including the establishment of a South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) in 2006.

Michael Tay, executive director of the APEC secretariat in Singapore, told reporters that the idea of an Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area was discussed at the meeting of senior officials.

With a few exceptions including the adoption of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1992, free trade agreements (FTAs) in the sense of Article XXIV of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) were almost nonexistent in the region.

The "democratic expansion" envisioned also includes grouping supposedly liberated Middle Eastern nations in a Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA).

and Sisodia (marketing, Bentley College) argue that forces already in place will cause regionalization to supplant globalization, with the European Union expanding both east and south, a Chinese-led Asian bloc expanding to include a united Korea as well as Australia and New Zealand, a North and South America uniting under the revived Free Trade area of the Americas (FTAA) treaty and joined by the UK, and South Asia creating free trade area that will eventually join the FTAA.

The Free Trade Area of the Americas is looking bleaker for George W.

The police crackdown was the same model as was used at the November 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) protest in Florida.

The US-Morocco FTA is an integral part of President Bush's strategy to create a Middle East Free Trade Area by 2013.