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Chile-United States |
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Background and Negotiations |
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Chile and the
United States announced their negotiations towards a
free trade agreement on 29 November 2000.
Negotiations began December 6-7, 2000 in Washington
D.C. and concluded 11 December 2002. The agreement
was signed in Miami on 6 June 2003.
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Entry into Force |
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In the United States the FTA was approved through
the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Implementation Act, which
was passed by the House of Representatives as
H.R.2738 on 24 July 2003 and in the Senate on 31
July 2003 and became Public Law 108-77 on 3
September 2003. In Chile the FTA was approved by the
Congress on 23 October 2003 and implemented through
Decree 312. A number of modifications were necessary
to the Spanish text, which were set out in Decree
149 and modifications were necessary to the US
Tariff Schedule, which were set out in USITC
Publication 3652 of December 2003 and made effective
by Presidential Proclamation 7746. The Chile-U.S.
Free Trade Agreement entered into force on 1
November 2004.
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Implementation of the
Agreement |
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Article 21.1 of the Agreement establishes a Free Trade
Commission made up of cabinet-level representatives
or their designees. The Commission is responsible
for supervising the implementation and further
elaboration of the Agreement; to seek to resolve
disputes arising under the Agreement; to supervise
the work of committees and working groups
established under the Agreement and to consider any
other matters that may affect the operation of the
Agreement.
The Commission may also establish committees and
working groups, and further the implementation of
the Agreement by approving modifications of the
tariff elimination schedules (Annex
3.3) by accelerating tariff elimination; the
specific rules of origin established in Annex 4.1, the Common Guidelines references in Article 4.17 and the Sections of Annex 9.1 of the Government Procurement chapter.
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Environmental Cooperation Agreements |
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The Chile-U.S. FTA provides, in
Article 19.3,
for the establishment of an Environmental Affairs
Council, to meet yearly to discuss the
implementation of and progress in Chapter 19.
On 17 June 2003, Chile and the United States signed
an Agreement on Environmental Cooperation as part of
the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement. This agreement
created a bilateral consultative mechanism, the
Joint Commission for Environmental Cooperation, to
address environmental and natural resource issues.
This Joint Commission is to meet every two years.
The first meetings of the Environment Affairs
Council and the U.S. - Chile Joint Commission on
Environmental Cooperation were held in Santiago,
Chile on 22 July 2004. This meeting initiated the
development of a joint Work Program for 2005-2006.
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Labor Cooperation Mechanism |
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Article 18.4 of
the FTA establishes a Labor Affairs Council to meet
within the first year of the entry into force of the
Agreement and thereafter as often as it considers necessary. Article 18.5 sets out a Labor Cooperation
Mechanism, elaborated in Annex 18.5. |
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Articles
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Recent Developments |
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