With these two avenues closed, regional and bilateral free trade agreements are the best vehicles to liberalize commerce.
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Although he has spoken in support of free trade in the past (and voted for NAFTA), his more recent record includes "no" votes on the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and a number of bilateral free trade agreements.
The U.S. will continue to forge bilateral free trade agreements like the ones it has in place with Jordan, Oman, Morocco and Bahrain, Bush said, but social freedoms are just as important to prosperity as relaxing tariffs and courting investment.
Meanwhile, two-way trade between India and Sri Lanka, which signed a bilateral free-trade agreement in 1999, is ballooning.
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Trade between the countries has been growing ever since they reached a bilateral free-trade agreement five years ago.
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No bilateral free-trade agreement exists, and India often flirts with slapping duties on Chinese imports, most recently of power equipment.
Having announced last year that it would seek full membership, in November it suddenly began bilateral free-trade talks with the United States.
One result has been that Australia is now the only major economy to have a bilateral free-trade agreement with America while also actively discussing one with China.
New bilateral free-trade negotiations will be pulled from the table.
Bilateral free-trade agreements are springing up all over Asia.
And he has also said that if the Doha trade talks can't be restarted consideration should be given to a bilateral India-EU free-trade agreement.
WTO, but has also made it clear that it sees bilateral or regional free-trade agreements as a legitimate alternative.
India, in addition to its free trade pact with ASEAN, has bilateral trade agreements with Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
On our bilateral relationship we agreed to continue to pursue the details of the free trade agreement that has already been executed so that it is creating jobs and prosperity in both countries.
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The United States is working on a Free-Trade Area of the Americas as well as a slew of bilateral deals.
President Alejandro Toledo's government called off a bilateral meeting of foreign and defence ministers, and backed away from plans for free-trade talks with Chile.
Those who urge that a global World Trade Organization agreement is preferable to a series of bilateral and multilateral pacts ignore the WTO's very limited progress towards creating global free trade.
One course might be to stop pretending it is just another member of the Organisation of African Unity or Southern African Development Community, and start developing bilateral relations with other African countries, perhaps extending the South African Customs Union free-trade agreement to them.
On its own, Singapore has just concluded a free-trade agreement with New Zealand and now has Australia (New Zealand's existing bilateral partner) and India in its sights.
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