We were the first to start the process of establishing a free trade area and have signed the FrameworkAgreement on ComprehensiveEconomicCooperation betweenChinaand ASEAN.
Chelliah says APEC members have been studying how the European Union expanded its free trade area, as well as the ASEAN Australia-New Zealand trade agreement and the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership.
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Mr Bush came to power last year a committed free-trader: he envisages the creation of a FreeTradeArea of the Americas, building on the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and stretching from Canada to Chile.
On April 22, 1985, the United States and Israel entered into the Agreement on the Establishment of a FreeTradeArea between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Israel (USIFTA), which the Congress approved in the United States-Israel FreeTradeArea Implementation Act of 1985 (the "USIFTA Act") (19 U.S.C. 2112 note).