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  • CAFTA Documents

    • "Emphatically, Yes": Editorial Support for CAFTA from Coast to Coast
    • 2006 Agreement Establishing a Secretariat for Environmental Matters Under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement
    • 2006 U.S. Trade with the CAFTA-DR Countries
    • A Partnership to Build Capacity: Corporations and NGO Assistance
    • A Partnership to Build Capacity: Government Assistance
    • A Partnership to Build Capacity: International Organization Assistance
    • Administration of the Agreement and Trade Capacity Building
    • Agreement Among the Governments of Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and the United States of America on Environmental Cooperation
    • Amendment to Article 22.5
    • An "Un-Stacked Deck": CAFTA Dispute Panels Will Be Transparent, Fair
    • Annex 4.1 (Product-Specific Rules of Origin)
    • Annex I Costa Rica Schedule
    • Annex I Dominican Republic Schedule
    • Annex I El Salvador Schedule
    • Annex I Formatting Note
    • Annex I Guatemala Schedule
    • Annex I Honduras Schedule
    • Annex I Nicaragua Schedule
    • Annex I U.S. Schedule
    • Annex II (Services/Investment Non-Conforming Measures)
    • Annex III (Financial Services Non-Conforming Measures)
    • Appendix 3.3.6 - Special Rules of Origin
    • Benefits of FTAs for Investment
    • Benefits of the CAFTA-DR for Agriculture
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ACTPN
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ACTPN
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports APAC
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ATAC Animals
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ATAC Fruits & Vegetables
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ATAC Grains
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ATAC Sweeteners
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ATAC Tobacco
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports IFAC 1 Customs Matters
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports IFAC 2 Standards
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports IFAC 3 Intellectual Property Rights
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports IFAC 4 Electronic Commerce
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports IGPAC
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 1 Aerospace Equipment
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 10 Lumber and Wood Products
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 11 Nonferrous Ores and Metals
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 12 Paper and Paper Products
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 13 Services
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 14 Small and Minority Business
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 15 Textiles and Apparel
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 16 Transportation, Construction and Agricultural Equipment
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 17 Wholesaling and Retailing
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 2 Capital Goods
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 3 Chemicals and Allied Products
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 4 Consumer Goods
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 5 Electronics and Instrumentation
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 6 Energy
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 7 Ferrous Ores and Metals
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 8 Footwear, Leather and Leather Products
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports ISAC 9 Building Products and Other Material
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports LAC
    • CAFTA Advisory Group Reports TEPAC
    • CAFTA and Access to Medicines
    • CAFTA and Dietary Supplements
    • CAFTA and the U.S. Trade Deficit
    • CAFTA and U.S. Sovereignty
    • CAFTA Benefits the American Family
    • CAFTA Does Not Affect U.S. Immigration Laws
    • CAFTA Gets Tough on Illegal Transshipment
    • CAFTA Is Jordan-Plus: Comparison of Labor Provisions of Recent FTAs
    • CAFTA Is Not "Anti-Dentist": State Licensing Requirements Not Affected
    • CAFTA Is Stronger Than the Jordan FTA on Labor
    • CAFTA Labor and Environment Capacity Building
    • CAFTA Levels the Playing Field for U.S. Workers and Farmers
    • CAFTA Protects Millions of American Investors
    • CAFTA Rhymes with NAFTA But Is Better in Many Ways
    • CAFTA will Accomplish More for Worker Rights than Trade Preference Programs
    • CAFTA-DR and Dietary Supplements
    • CAFTA-DR and Dietary Supplements
    • CAFTA-DR Capacity Building Programs - Promoting Rural Development in the CAFTA-DR Countries
    • CAFTA-DR Does Not Affect U.S. Immigration Laws
    • CAFTA-DR Implementing Legislation for House of Representatives
    • CAFTA-DR Trade Capacity Building Success Stories
    • CAFTA: Advancing Small Business
    • CAFTA: Opportunity to Reduce Poverty - Support from Key Development Institutions
    • CAFTA: Strengthening Freedom, Democracy and Security
    • CAFTA's Environmental Provisions are "Jordan-Plus"
    • CAFTA's Labor Provisions: World Class, Best Ever
    • Chapter 1 - Initial Provisions
    • Chapter 10 - Investment
    • Chapter 11 - Cross-Border Trade in Services
    • Chapter 13 - Telecommunications
    • Chapter 14 - Electronic Commerce
    • Chapter 15 - Intellectual Property
    • Chapter 16 - Labor
    • Chapter 17 - Environment
    • Chapter 18 - Transparency
    • Chapter 2 - General Definitions
    • Chapter 20 - Dispute Settlement
    • Chapter 21 - Exceptions
    • Chapter 22 - Final Provisions
    • Chapter 3 - National Treatment and Market Access for Goods
    • Chapter 4 - Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures
    • Chapter 5 - Customs Administration and Trade Facilitation
    • Chapter 6 - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
    • Chapter 7 - Technical Barriers to Trade
    • Chapter 8 - Trade Remedies
    • Chapter 9 - Government Procurement
    • Chapter 9 - Government Procurement Annex 9.1.2(b)(i)
    • Chapter 9 - Government Procurement Annex 9.1.2(b)(ii)
    • Chapter 9 - Government Procurement Annex 9.1.2(b)(iii)
    • Communiqué of the Environmental Affairs Council of the CAFTA-DR
    • Costa Rica General Notes and Appendix I
    • Costa Rica Letter to U.S. Regarding Pocketing in CAFTA-DR
    • Costa Rica Side Letter on Bank Sales Representatives
    • Costa Rica Side Letter on Bank Sales Representatives
    • Costa Rica Side Letter on Continuation of "807" Program
    • Costa Rica Side Letter on Contracts of Representation, Distribution, or Fabrication
    • Costa Rica Side Letter on Costa Rica's Radio-Electric Spectrum
    • Costa Rica Side Letter on extraction, generation, and refining
    • Costa Rica Side Letter on Gambling
    • Costa Rica Side Letter on Mining Activities
    • Costa Rica Side Letter on Poultry
    • Costa Rica Side Letter on Wildlife, Forestry, and Zoning
    • Costa Rica Side Letter regarding May 28 Side Letters
    • Costa RicaSide Letter on Foreign Bank Branches and Additional Reserve Requirements
    • Details on Agriculture Provisions in CAFTA
    • Details on Textile Provisions of the CAFTA
    • Dispute Settlement: Equivalent Procedures & Remedies for Commercial and Labor Disputes
    • Dominican Republic General Notes and Appendix I
    • DR Advisory Committe Report
    • DR Advisory Committe Report
    • DR Advisory Committe Report
    • DR Advisory Committe Report
    • DR Advisory Committe Report
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    • DR Advisory Committee Reports
    • DR Advisory Committee Reports
    • DR Advisory Committee Reports
    • DR Advisory Group Reports
    • DR Advisory Group Reports Animals & Animal Products
    • DR FTA Reports
    • DR-CAFTA - Dominican Republic Negotiators' Letter on Patents
    • DR-CAFTA - Dominican Republic Side Letter on Haiti/CBTPA Co-Production
    • DR-CAFTA - Dominican Republic Side Letter on IPR Procdures
    • DR-CAFTA - Dominican Republic Side Letter on SPS/Import Licensing
    • DR-CAFTA - Dominican Republic Side Letter on Telecommunications Policy
    • DR-CAFTA - Dominican Republic Side Letter on the Labor Code
    • DR-CAFTA Chapter 12 Financial Services
    • DR-CAFTA Costa Rica Side Letter on Bank Sales Representatives
    • DR-CAFTA Letter on Telecom
    • DR-CAFTA Side Letter Honduran Nurses
    • El Salvador General Notes and Appendix I
    • El Salvador Letter on Tariff Treatment of Certain Confectionary Products
    • El Salvador Side Letter on Article 13.4.5(a)(iv)
    • El Salvador Side Letter on Poultry
    • El Salvador Side Letter on Public Utility Services
    • El Salvador Side Letter on the Labor Code
    • El Salvador Side Letter regarding May 28 Side Letters
    • Employment Impact Review
    • Environmental "Firsts" in CAFTA
    • Environmental Review
    • Ethanol in the CAFTA
    • Exchange of Letters Regarding the U.S.-Honduras Bilateral Investment Treaty
    • Final CAFTA-DR Environmental Review
    • Financial Support for CAFTA-DR
    • Free Trade Agreements Are Working for America
    • Guatemala General Notes and Appendix I
    • Guatemala Letter on Tariff Treatment of Certain Confectionary Products
    • Guatemala Side Letter on Establishment of Foreign Financial Institutions in the U.S.
    • Guatemala Side Letter on Insurance Branching Commitments
    • Guatemala Side Letter on Insurance Branching Commitments
    • Guatemala Side Letter regarding May 28 Side Letters
    • Guatemala tariff on beer
    • Honduras General Notes and Appendix I
    • Honduras Side Letter on Nurses
    • Honduras Side Letter on Shirting Fabrics Study
    • Honduras Side Letter regarding May 28 Side Letters
    • Interim CAFTA-DR Environmental Review
    • Investment Provisions in CAFTA
    • IPR Understanding Regarding Certain Public Health Measures
    • Labor Capacity Building: Promoting Effective Enforcement of Labor Laws in the CAFTA-DR countries (Brief)
    • Labor Capacity Building: Promoting Effective Enforcement of Labor Laws in the CAFTA-DR countries (Long)
    • Labor Capacity Building: Steps Recommended by the White Paper
    • Labor Capacity-Building: Steps Recommended by the IDB
    • Labor Laws Compared: Morocco with Central America/Dominican Republic
    • Labor Laws in Central America and the Dominican Republic: What the ILO Report Says
    • Labor Rights Report
    • LAC Labor Report on DR FTA
    • Meeting the Needs of the Region's Rural Poor
    • National Action Plan for Costa Rica
    • National Action Plan for Costa Rica - en espanol
    • National Action Plan for Dominican Republic
    • National Action Plan for Dominican Republic - en espanol
    • National Action Plan for El Salvador
    • National Action Plan for Guatemala
    • National Action Plan for Guatemala - en espanol
    • National Action Plan for Honduras
    • National Action Plan for Nicaragua
    • National Action Plan for Nicaragua - en espanol
    • Nicaragua General Notes and Appendix I
    • Nicaragua Side Letter on Insurance Branching Commitments
    • Nicaragua Side Letter on Insurance Branching Commitments
    • Opportunities for Agriculture
    • Overview: CAFTA Does Not Undermine U.S. Sovereignty
    • Overview: The Case for CAFTA
    • Plan to Implement and Enforce the Agreement
    • Preamble
    • President's Transmittal to Congress Cover Page
    • Quotes of Support from Business and Farm Groups
    • Real Results on Labor Rights -- Improvements As A Result of CAFTA
    • Report on Impact on State and Local Governments
    • Report on Laws Governing Exploitative Child Labor
    • Schedule of Costa Rica to Annex 3.3
    • Schedule of Dominican Republic to Annex 3.3
    • Schedule of El Salvador to Annex 3.3
    • Schedule of Guatemala to Annex 3.3
    • Schedule of Honduras to Annex 3.3
    • Schedule of Nicaragua to Annex 3.3
    • Schedule of U.S. to Annex 3.3
    • Schedule of U.S. to Annex 3.3 en espanol
    • Section-by-Section Summary of the CAFTA
    • Short Summary of the CAFTA
    • Small Business Benefits from the CAFTA-DR
    • Small Countries, BIG Markets
    • Statement of Administrative Action
    • Statement of How the Agreement Achieves the Objectives of the TPA Act
    • Statement of How the Agreement Serves the Interests of U.S. Commerce
    • Strengthening Protections for Labor Rights
    • Sugar: A Spoonful A Week
    • Summary of the Agreement
    • Support from Environmental NGOs in Central America
    • Table of Contents
    • TEPAC Environmental Report on DR FTA
    • Textiles
    • Textiles: Uniting to Compete With Asia
    • The CAFTA-DR Does Not Affect U.S. Immigration Laws
    • The CAFTA-DR: Protecting American Investors
    • The Facts About CAFTA's Labor Provisions: Answering the Critics
    • The Facts About Improving Labor Conditions
    • The Facts about the CAFTA-DR and Investment
    • The FACTS on CAFTA and Government Procurement
    • The Facts on the CAFTA-DR/Chile FTA/NAFTA and Government Procurement
    • The Labor Dimension in Central American and the Dominican Republic. Building on Progress: Strengthening Compliance and Enhancing Capacity {White Paper}
    • Trade Capacity-Building in CAFTA
    • U.S. General Notes and Appendix I
    • U.S. Letter to Costa Rica Regarding Pocketing in CAFTA-DR
    • Understanding on Immigration Measures
    • Understanding Regarding the Establishment of a Secretariat for Environmental Matters Under the DR-CAFTA

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