"fta" is not a word in English.
It is likely an abbreviation of the phrase "free trade agreement," which is used to describe a contract between two or more parties that eliminates tariffs and other trade barriers. For example, "The United States recently negotiated a free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada."
Many countries want to do business with Taiwan, but when it comes to signing a FTA with us, they become hesitant, because of our diplomatic predicament.We managed to sign the ECFA with mainland China four years ago, which made it possible for us to sign an investment arrangement with Japan and economic co-operation agreements (ECA) with New Zealand and Singapore.
Yet Asia's two economic giants are still too distrustful of one another to sit and discuss an FTA.
This law, temporarily renewed in 2001, expires on December 31st.Peru and the United States signed a permanent Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) earlier this year.
Australia's recent Japan FTA has given impetus to the TPP, she says; and China is attracted to the TPP.
The United States-Singapore FTA will help advance areas such as e-commerce, intellectual property, labour and environmental standards, and the burgeoning services trade.
Then again, some policymakers think an FTA would also accelerate reforms to recalcitrant parts of the economy.
Mr Bush also sees how deeper economic ties could soothe a scratchy alliance: the FTA would be America's biggest since NAFTA, the North American Free-Trade Agreement, in 1994.
Above all, the DP objected to the ratification of a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.This is hypocritical, since, when the DP (under a different name) was itself the majority party, it had backed its leader, the former president, Roh Moo-hyun, in pushing for the FTA, negotiated and signed on his watch.
The FTA is expected to increase Colombia's long-term economic growth rate by over half a percentage point.While the pact languished, Colombia hired Washington lobbyists to drum up support and invited dozens of congressmen to tour the country.
COLOMBIA's government had waited so long for the country's free-trade agreement (FTA) with the United States to be approved that when it passed at last, officials were caught a little off guard.
Many of the works under construction today will likely be inadequate by the time they are finished.Mr Obama is expected to sign the FTA next week, kicking off an implementation phase in both countries to adapt internal laws and regulations to the agreement.
