Central America-Panama Free Trade Agreement

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Syllabus of the Subject: Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

  1. Introduction to Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua)-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
  2. Advantages of the Agreement Panama-Central America
  3. Certification and Rules of origin
  4. Foreign Trade between Central America and Panama
  5. Case Study: The Foreign trade of Costa Rica and Nicaragua with Panama
  6. Bilateral Protocol to the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Costa Rica and Panama
The Subject (e-learning) “Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Central America and Panama” is part of the following Higher Education Programs (EENI- School of Business & HA University):
  1. Course: Central America
  2. Masters (e-learning): International Business, America, Pacific
  3. Doctorate in Business in America

Learning materials in Higher Education in English Tertiary Education in Spanish Centro America Panama Post-secondary Education in French Amerique Centrale

Sample of the Subject: Central America-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
Central America-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA)

Description of the Subject (Higher Education, e-learning): Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Central America and Panama.

The main objectives of the Central America-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) are to:

  1. Strengthen the bilateral trade ties between Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua) and Panama
  2. Establish a legal framework to improve the conditions for increase the foreign trade
  3. To promote greater trade flows through the preferential access, free of barriers to external trade and distortions

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between El Salvador and Panama entered into force in 2003.

  1. In 2008, the Costa Rica-Panama Free Trade Agreement entered into force
  2. In 2009, the Honduras-Panama Free Trade Agreement entered into force
  3. The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Guatemala and Panama entered into force in 2009.
  4. In 2009, the Nicaragua-Panama bilateral protocol entered into force

The Central America-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has some common rules for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama, consisting of twenty-two chapters covering:

  1. National Treatment and Market Access
  2. Rules of Origin and certificate of origin
  3. Customs Procedures
  4. Safeguard Measures
  5. Unfair Trade Practices
  6. Sanitary and Phytosanitary
  7. Measures of standardisation, metrology and authorisation procedures
  8. Foreign direct investment (FDI)
  9. Trade in Services
  10. Financial Services
  11. Telecommunications
  12. Temporary Entry of Business Persons
  13. Competition Policy, monopolies and state companies
  14. Procurement
  15. Intellectual Property Rights
  16. Transparency

Al the countries of the Panama-Central America Free Trade Agreement belongs to the Western Civilisation - Latin American area

Panama's Free Trade Agreements (FTA) - America



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