A FREE-TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICA IN 2005

Authors
WROBEL PS
Citation
Ps. Wrobel, A FREE-TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICA IN 2005, International affairs, 74(3), 1998, pp. 547
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
International Relations
Journal title
International affairs → ACNP
ISSN journal
00205850
Volume
74
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-5850(1998)74:3<547:AFAOTA>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
In the second presidential summit of the Americas, which took place in April 1998 in Santiago de Chile, 34 heads of states of the Americas a nnounced that they were ready to start negotiating a Free Trade Area o f the Americas (FTAA), to be concluded by 2005. This article briefly d iscusses the current trend in favour of regional preferential trade ag reements, describes how the proposal for an FTAA came about, explores more than three years of negotiations that made it possible and assess es the probability of its success.