Free Trade Area of the Americas
Abstract The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was an intergovernmental initiative announced in 1994 between 34 states in the Western Hemisphere – all states except Cuba – to create a trade bloc stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Although this was never accomplished, the FTAA represent...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2012
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog221 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog221 |
| Summary: | Abstract The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was an intergovernmental initiative announced in 1994 between 34 states in the Western Hemisphere – all states except Cuba – to create a trade bloc stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Although this was never accomplished, the FTAA represented the most ambitious trade integration scheme ever attempted (Salazar‐Xirinachs 2001). Equally, it was one of the most disputed of such attempts. |
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