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The law. Under the traditional common law doctrine, the 99-year term was not seriously litteral, but merely an arbitrary time span beyond the life expectancy of any possible lessee (user) or lessor (owner). [1][2] William Blackstone (1723–1781, of Commentaries on the Laws of England fame) states that a lease was formerly limited to 40 years ...
The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China was at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rule in the former colony, which began in 1841. Hong Kong was established as a special administrative region of China (SAR) for 27 years, maintaining its own economic and governing systems ...
The United States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement was signed 6 May 2003 and ratified by the US House of Representatives on 24 July 2003 by a vote of 272-155. The US Senate ratified the bill on 31 July 2003 by a vote of 66-32. [1] President George W. Bush signed into law the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act on 3 ...
Lists of free trade agreements. Free trade agreements or free trade areas are listed as follows: List of multilateral free trade agreements. List of bilateral free trade agreements.
Mercosur. Russia (EU–Russia Common Economic Space) Andean Community. South Korea (European Union–Korea Free Trade Agreement) European Union Central American Association Agreement (EU–CAAA) EFTA is negotiating or is planning bilateral agreements with the following countries and blocs: Algeria. Albania. MERCOSUR.
Sino-British Joint Declaration. The Sino-British Joint Declaration was a treaty between the governments of the United Kingdom and China signed in 1984 setting the conditions in which Hong Kong was transferred to Chinese control and for the governance of the territory after 1 July 1997. Hong Kong had been a colony of the British Empire since ...
English. The Singapore–United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (SUKFTA) is a free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and Singapore. It was signed prior to the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of the European Union as a Continuity trade agreement in order to protect trade and investment between the two parties as the UK would no longer be ...
List of multilateral free trade agreements. A multilateral free trade agreement is between several countries all treated equally, and creates a free trade area. Every customs union, common market, economic union, customs and monetary union and economic and monetary union is also a free trade area, and are not included below.