International Trade Agreement Contents

It is the best way to encourage free trade through the transit of goods between countries without paying taxes. Boosts trade through competitive and comparative advantages of goods.

• Preferential trade

• Non-tariff regulations reduction

• Tariff Relief

• Rules of Origin

They provide certainty to apply the preference of tariff or non-tariff benefits, based on the regional manufacturing composition of a good. There is no standard for the determination of its formula, it depends on the interests and negotiations between the signatory countries of an FTA.

• Trade of services

• Rules of Origin

• Non tariff regulations

• Relief of duties

A significant deterioration in production, trade and financial indicators of the economic sector or a significant dercreasing in the developing of the economic sector, which occurred as a result of increased import of goods, import of goods at dumping prices or import of subsidized goods to the customs territory of a country.

• Threat of damage to an economy

• Dumping

• Serious damage to an economy

• Trade defenses

Measures to limit the increased import of goods, applied in the form of restrictions on the import of goods in relation to their quantity and (or) value (import quota), special duties levied in excess of import customs duty, or other measures aimed at limiting the increased import of goods.

• Duming and safeguards measures

• Trade measures

• Non tariff barriers

• Unfair practices to foreign trade

That is not one of the main objectives of the rules of origin into a free trade agreement

• to implement measures and instruments of commercial policy such as anti-dumping duties and safeguard measures

• to determine whether imported products shall receive preferential treatment

• for the purpose of trade statistics

• for the determination of special prices of selling to the destination internal market

It's an example of a tariff measure according to the weight or volume, for example, USD$ 0.338 per kilo.

• Non tariff regulation

• Ad valorem tax

• Specific Tax

• Safeguard measure

They are imposed after an investigation finds that a foreign country subsidizes its exports, injuring domestic producers in the importing country.

• Countervailing duties

• Special duties and non tariff regulations

• Mixed duties

• Ad valorem duties

Trade facilitation refers to:

• The impossibility of doing business if there are illegal practices

• Protection to non discrimination practices and dumping

• The simplification, harmonisation and automation of international trade procedures

• Release of tariffs to boost trade between countries, including reduction of taxes and duties

It's the main interest to involve the buying and selling procedures for public sector into the free trade agreements

• Regulate governments based on WTO trade policies and prevent them from purchasing services and products outside the regional demarcation of the treaty

• Ensure that suppliers of goods and services are treated in an open, transparent and non-discriminatory manner

• Driving down costs, and extends demand to large suppliers in an agile and flexible supply chain

• Grant contracts for large projects to trusted companies, national or international, that have the capital to provide financing for long periods of time

To ease shipping goods across borders, protecting the value of Innovation, creativity and branding

• Non tariff measures

• Countervailing protection

• Intellectual property protection

• Special taxes and duties