Transatlantic Free Trade Area
- This article is about the general concept of free trade in the Transatlantic region. For the current negotiations between the European Union and the United States see Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
A Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) is a proposal to create a trans-atlantic free-trade area covering Europe and North America. Such proposals have been made since the 1990s and since 2013 an agreement between the United States and the European Union has been under negotiation: the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. If an agreement is reached and ratified on both sides (which is not certain) then, at least in theory, it might be expanded to include the other parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement (Canada and Mexico) on the one hand and to the European Free Trade Association on the other.
Current and pending trade agreements between proposed members
- Trans-Pacific Partnership (Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam)
- North American Free Trade Agreement (US, Canada & Mexico)
- Canada–European Free Trade Association Free Trade Agreement (Canada & EFTA)
- Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Canada & EU)
- Free Trade Agreement between Mexico and the European Union (Mexico & EU)
- Free Trade Agreement between Mexico and the European Free Trade Association (Mexico & EFTA)
- European Economic Area and bilateral Swiss treaties (EU & EFTA)
EU-US trade
- Transatlantic Economic Council
- United States–European Union relations
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - proposed Free Trade agreement
- EU–US Open Skies Agreement
External links
- EU negotiations site
- European Commission, DG Trade - In focus Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
- USTR Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
- The Transatlantic Colossus: Global Contributions to Broaden the Debate on the EU-US Free Trade Agreement A collaborative publication with over 20 articles on the global implications of the TAFTA | TTIP
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