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The ASEAN–India Free Trade Area (AIFTA) is a free trade area among the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Republic of India. The initial framework agreement was signed on 8 October 2003 in Bali, Indonesia. [1] and the final agreement was on 13 August 2009. [2]
The Siamese–American Treaty of 1833 called for free trade, except for export of rice and import of munitions of war. The Opium Wars break out between Western nations and China, resulting in the Chinese government being forced to open trade to foreign powers. Britain unilaterally adopted a policy of free trade and abolished the Corn Laws in ...
Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) PTA Bangladesh, China, Laos, Mongolia, South Korea, Sri Lanka 1975 ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement: CECA ASEAN: 13 August 2009 1 January 2010 [7] ASEAN-India Trade in Services Agreement: November 2014 1 July 2015 [7] [19] ASEAN-India Investment Agreement: November 2014 1 July 2015 [7] [19]
ASEAN–Hong Kong, China Free Trade Area (AHKFTA) ASEAN–India Free Trade Area (AIFTA), in effect as of 1 January 2010 [9] ASEAN–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP), in effect as of 1 December 2008 [10] ASEAN–Korea Free Trade Area (AKFTA), in effect as of 1 January 2010 [11]
Exceptionally, Henry George's 1886 book Protection or Free Trade was read out loud in full into the Congressional Record by five Democratic congressmen. [96] [97] American economist Tyler Cowen wrote that Protection or Free Trade "remains perhaps the best-argued tract on free trade to this day". [98]
During the 1990s, the U.S. trade deficit became a more excessive long-run trade deficit, mostly with Asia. By 2012, the U.S. trade deficit, fiscal budget deficit, and federal debt increased to record or near-record levels following the implementation of broad unconditional or unilateral U.S. free trade policies and formal trade agreements in ...
Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement [6] [7] Chile: 1 June 6, 2003 January 1, 2004 Chile–United States Free Trade Agreement [8] [9] Colombia: 1 November 20, 2006 May 15, 2012 United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement [10] [11] Israel Palestine Authority: 2 April 22, 1985 August 19, 1985 Israel–United States Free ...
European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to growing trade in commodities—a key development in the rise of today's modern world free market economy. In the 16th century, the Portuguese broke the (overland) monopoly of the Arabs and Italians in trade between Asia and Europe by the discovery of the sea route to India ...