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Dominican Republic - Central America - United States
Free Trade Agreement


Table of Contents

 Preamble

Text [PDF format, 11 KB]

 
1. Initial Provisions

Text [PDF format, 11 KB]

 
2. General Definitions

Text [PDF format, 18 KB]

 
3. National Treatment and Market Access for Goods

Text [PDF format, 169 KB]

4. Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures

Text [PDF format, 44 KB]

 
5. Customs Administration and Trade Facilitation

Text [PDF format, 23 KB]

 
6. Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Measures

Text [PDF format, 17 KB]

 
7. Technical Barriers to Trade

Text [PDF format, 21 KB]

 
8. Trade Remedies

Text [PDF format, 29 KB]

 
9. Government Procurement

Text [PDF format, 30 KB]

Annex 9.1.2(b)(i) [PDF format, 238 KB]

Annex 9.1.2(b)(ii) [PDF format, 12 KB]

Annex 9.1.2(b)(iii) [PDF format, 29 KB]

 
10. Investment

Text [PDF format, 81 KB]

 
11. Cross-Border Trade in Services

Text [PDF format, 49 KB]

 
12. Financial Services

Text [PDF format, 147 KB]

 
13. Telecommunications

Text [PDF format, 49 KB]

 
14. Electronic Commerce

Text [PDF format, 13 KB]

 
15. Intellectual Property Rights

Text [PDF format, 147 KB]

 
16. Labor

Text [PDF format, 26 KB]

 
17. Environment

Text [PDF format, 39 KB]

 
18. Transparency

Text [PDF format, 16 KB]

 
19. Administration of the Agreement and Trade Capacity Building

Text [PDF format, 18 KB]

 

20. Dispute Settlement

Text [PDF format, 108 KB]

 
21. Exceptions

Text [PDF format, 18 KB]

 
22. Final Provisions

Text [PDF format, 11 KB]

 
Market Access Appendix 3.3.6

Text [PDF format, 82 KB]

 
Annex 4.1 (Product-Specific Rules of Origin)

Text [PDF format, 220 KB]

 

Annex I

Formatting Note  [PDF format, 11 KB]

Costa Rica Schedule  [PDF format, 99 KB]

Dominican Republic Schedule  [PDF format, 69 KB]

El Salvador Schedule  [PDF format, 47 KB]

Guatemala Schedule  [PDF format, 28 KB]

Honduras Schedule  [PDF format, 77 KB]

Nicaragua Schedule  [PDF format, 55 KB]

U.S. Schedule  [PDF format, 27 KB]

 
Annex II

Text      [PDF format, 67 KB]

 
Annex III (Financial Services Non-Conforming Measures)

Text  [PDF format, 149 KB]

 
Tariff Schedules

Costa Rica General Notes and Appendix I [PDF format, 32 KB]

Schedule of Costa Rica to Annex 3.3  [PDF format, 613 KB]

Dominican Republic General Notes and Appendix I [PDF format, 44 KB]

Schedule of Dominican Republic to Annex 3.3  [PDF format, 648 KB]

El Salvador General Notes and Appendix I [PDF format, 42 KB]

Schedule of El Salvador to Annex 3.3  [PDF format, 617 KB]

Guatemala General Notes and Appendix I [PDF format, 33 KB]

Schedule of Guatemala to Annex 3.3  [PDF format, 612 KB]

Honduras General Notes and Appendix I [PDF format, 44 KB]

Schedule of Honduras to Annex 3.3 [PDF format, 530 KB]

Nicaragua General Notes and Appendix I [PDF format, 162 KB]

Schedule of Nicaragua to Annex 3.3  [PDF format, 556 KB]

U.S. General Notes and Appendix I [PDF format, 47 KB]

Schedule of U.S. to Annex 3.3  [PDF format, 1,071 KB]

Side Letters
 

Costa Rica

Letter regarding May 28 Side Letters [PDF format, 9 KB]

Letter on Poultry Trade [PDF format, 7 KB]

Letter on Bank Sales Representative [PDF format, 16 KB]

Letter on Foreign Bank Branches and Additional Reserve Requirements  [PDF format, 5 KB]

Letter on Contracts of Representation, Distribution or Fabrication [PDF format, 11 KB]

Letter on Extraction, Generation an Refining [PDF format, 9 KB]

Letter on Gambling [PDF format, 8 KB]

Letter on Mining Activities [PDF format, 9 KB]

Letter on Widlife, Forestry and Zoning [PDF format, 11 KB]

Letter on Costa Rica's Radio-Electric Spectrum [PDF format, 7 KB]

Letter on Continuation of "807" Program [PDF format, 6 KB]

Dominican Republic

Letter on SPS/Import Licensing [PDF format, 10 KB]

Letter on the Labor Code [PDF format, 19 KB]

Letter on Telecommunications Policy [PDF format, 32 KB]

Letter on IPR Procedures [PDF format, 12 KB]

Letter on Haiti/CBTPA Co-Production [PDF format, 8 KB]

El Salvador

Letter regarding May 28 Side Letters [PDF format, 8 KB]

Letter on Poultry Trade [PDF format, 7 KB]

Letter on Tariff Treatment of Certain Confectionary Products [PDF format, 7 KB]

Letter on Labor Code [PDF format, 7 KB]

Letter on Public Utility Services [PDF format, 6 KB]

Letter on Article 13.4.5(a)(iv) [PDF format, 9 KB]

 

Guatemala

Letter regarding May 28 Side Letters [PDF format, 8 KB]

Letter on Tariff Treatment of Certain Confectionary Products [PDF format, 5 KB]

Letter on Insurance Branching Commitments [PDF format, 7 KB]

Letter on Establishment of Foreign Financial Institutions in the U.S. [PDF format, 6 KB]

 

Honduras

Letter regarding May 28 Side Letters [PDF format, 8 KB]

Letter on Nurses [PDF format, 17 KB]

Letter on Shirting Fabrics Study [PDF format, 7 KB]

Nicaragua

Letter on Insurance Branching Commitments [PDF format, 11 KB]

 
Understandings
IP Understanding on Public Health [PDF format, 9 KB]
Understanding on Inmigration Measures [PDF format, 8 KB]
 

Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
Date of Signature: February 18, 2005

 
Understanding Regarding the Establishment of a Secretariat for Environmental Matters
Date of Signature: February 18, 2005

Source: Office of the United States Trade Representative
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