| CAFTA Advisory Group Reports |
| On March 22, 2004, the Office of the United States Trade Representative
transmitted to the
President and the Congress reports from 32
trade advisory committees, comprising more than
750 practitioners
representing diverse interests and views, regarding the recently completed U.S.-
Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), covering Costa Rica,
El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The Trade Act of 2002
requires these committees to
prepare reports on proposed trade
agreements for the Administration and Congress. Support for
the
agreement was widespread among nearly all the committees, with several
senior-level
committees noting that the agreement goes beyond the Chile
and Singapore FTAs in important
respects. |
