Download or read book Getting the Most Out of Free Trade Agreements in Central America written by J. Humberto Lopez and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main message of the study is that Central America's ability to exploit the opportunities created by ongoing trade liberalization will depend on the ability of the region to implement a complementary policy agenda that creates an enabling policy and institutional environment.
Download or read book The Dominican Republic Central America United States Free Trade Agreement CAFTA DR written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Trade Representative (USTR) and trade ministers from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic signed the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) on August 5, 2004. Nearly one year later, it faced a contentious debate and close vote in both houses of the U.S. Congress. The Senate passed implementing legislation 54 to 45 on June 30, 2005, with the House following in kind 217 to 215 on July 28, 2005. President Bush signed the legislation into law on August 2, 2005 (P.L. 109-53, 119 Stat. 462). All other countries except Costa Rica have ratified the agreement. As of August 1, 2006, the United States has implemented the agreement for El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala and will do so for the remaining two countries when they adopt the necessary regulatory and legal framework. Costa Rica stands alone in still needing legislative approval of the CAFTA-DR agreement, which is expected to occur in 2006. The CAFTA-DR is a regional agreement with all parties subject to "the same set of obligations and commitments," but with each country defining its own market access schedule. It is a reciprocal trade agreement, basically replacing U.S. unilateral preferential trade treatment extended to these countries under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA), and the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). It liberalizes trade in goods, services, government procurement, intellectual property, and investment, and addresses labor and environment issues. Most commercial and farm goods attain duty-free status immediately. Remaining trade will have tariffs phased out incrementally over five to twenty years. Duty-free treatment will be delayed longest for the most sensitive agricultural products. To address asymmetrical development and transition issues, the CAFTA-DR specifies rules for transitional safeguards, tariff rate quotas, and trade capacity building. The CAFTA-DR is not expected to have a large effect on the U.S. economy as a whole, but some sectors and groups will be affected more than others. Supporters see it as part of a policy foundation supportive of both improved intraregional trade, as well as, long-term social, political, and economic development in an area of strategic importance to the United States. Opponents wanted better trade adjustment and capacity building policies to address the potentially negative effects on certain import-competing sectors and their workers. In light of the region's poor labor standards in some cases, the perception of inadequate labor laws, and widely accepted lax enforcement, opponents also argued that the labor provisions in the CAFTA-DR needed strengthening. This report addresses the CAFTA-DR and will be updated. For more on individual country perspectives, see CRS Report RL32322, Central America and the Dominican Republic in the Context of the Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) with the United States, coordinated by K. Larry Storrs.
Download or read book Dominican Republic Central America United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dominican Republic Central America United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dominican Republic Central America United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act report together with additional and dissenting views to accompany H R 3045 including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Costa Rica Five Years after CAFTA DR written by Friederike (Fritzi) Koehler-Geib and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The benefits of regional trade agreements can be important factors in the economic development of a country. This study looks at the impact of the Central America Free Trade Agreement - Dominican Republic on the Costa Rican economy overall and some key manufacturing and service sectors, finding positive results.
Download or read book Dominican Republic Central America Free Trade Agreement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implementation of the Dominican Republic Central America Free Trade Agreement DR CAFTA written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Challenges of CAFTA written by Daniel Lederman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The report provides a preliminary assessment of DR-CAFTA, with particular attention to three key themes: (i) expected trade and non-trade benefits, (ii) actions that Central American countries need to pursue to capitalize optimally on the new opportunities, and (iii) identification of the population groups that may require assistance to adapt to a more competitive environment. The Introductory Chapter reviews the main findings of the report. Chapter II places DR-CAFTA in the historical context of the economic reforms that Central America has been undertaking since the late 1980s. Chapter III provides a summary overview of the recently negotiated DR-CAFTA. Chapter IV reviews various analyses that assess the potential impacts of DR-CAFTA in Central American countries. Chapter V focuses on the identification of potentially affected populations from the easing of trade restrictions in sensitive agricultural products and analyzes policy options to assist vulnerable groups. Chapter VI reviews evidence related to key macroeconomic implications of DR-CAFTA, namely the potential revenue losses and effect on the patterns of business-cycle synchronization. Chapter VII reviews evidence from each Central American country in the areas of trade facilitation, institutional and regulatory reforms, and innovation and education, in order to identify key priorities for the complementary agenda for DR-CAFTA."
Download or read book The Dominican Republic Central America U S Free Trade Agreement written by Juan M. Gonzales and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 5 August 2004, the United States entered into the Dominican Republic-Central American-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). Congress passed the implementing bill on July 28th, 2005, and CAFTA-DR entered into force with El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, thereafter. This permanent, comprehensive, and reciprocal trade agreement eliminates tariff and non-tariff barriers to two-way trade, building on unilateral trade preferences begun under the 1983 Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). It enhances rules and other standards for services, intellectual property rights, government procurements, investment, and other disciplines. It also reinforces Congress's historical support for trade as a foundation of broader foreign economic, political, and security policies in the region. This book provides an analysis of the trade and investment trends since CAFTA-DR entered into being.
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Download or read book Review the Dominican Republic Central America Free Trade Agreement written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
