FTAs

The White House said Wednesday it was still committed to finalizing the free trade agreements, known as FTAs, as well as a retraining assistance package for American workers displaced by trade.

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"Some are called FTAs and some are called economic partnership arrangements, but they are all regional free-trade agreements under the WTO," he said.

Taipei Times 2010

"Some are called FTAs and some are called economic partnership arrangements, but they are all regional free-trade agreements under the WTO," he said.

Taipei Times 2010

"Some are called FTAs and some are called economic partnership arrangements, but they are all regional free-trade agreements under the WTO," he said.

Taipei Times 2010

"Some are called FTAs and some are called economic partnership arrangements, but they are all regional free-trade agreements under the WTO," he said.

Taipei Times 2010

As an initial step, the TPP countries have agreed that the TPP will exist side-by-side with existing FTAs, meaning that countries will maintain both their FTA obligations and their TPP commitments.

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Economist Jagdish Bhagwati even likened preferential trade agreements such as FTAs to termites, in his book Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine

Taipei Times 2010

President Ma: When we started planning to negotiate a cross-strait economic cooperation framework agreement, or ECFA, with mainland China a year or so ago, 58 FTAs or similar arrangements had already been signed in Asia between 2000 and 2009.

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"We have begun to engage with Capitol Hill in discussions about how to take forward the whole trade agenda, including the three FTAs," Mr. Froman said in a conference call with reporters.

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The reworking of the pact with South Korea last month "may create an opportunity to work through outstanding issues to move forward our other two pending FTAs with Colombia and Panama," Arturo Valenzuela , the State Department's assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, said at the Brookings Institution.

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