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Article: Striking a deal with the Americas.(Free Trade Agreement for the Americas)(Brief Article)
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- Business Mexico
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- October 1, 2001
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Thousands of protesters took over Quebec City to demonstrate against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and globalization in general last April. If they could have seen the FTAA draft agreement produced later in July, they might have stayed at home.
More than 430 pages long, the draft created by 34 nations working to form a hemisphere-wide trading block has two types of text: regular to indicate language agreed upon, and bracketed to "indicate that different points of view do exist on the text," as the document's footnote states.
The FTAA draft is a sea of brackets, and suggests there is little upon which the hemisphere agrees with regards to ...