Central America-Panama Free Trade Agreement

EENI- School of International Business

Sub-subject: The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Syllabus:

1. Introduction to Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua)-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
2. Advantages of the Agreement
3. Certification and Rules of origin
4. The Foreign Trade between Central America and Panama
5. Case Study: Foreign trade Costa Rica and Nicaragua with Panama
6. Bilateral Protocol to the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Costa Rica and Panama

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

Description of the Sub-Subject: The 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)-Panama
2. Establish a legal framework to improve the conditions for increase international trade
3. To promote greater flows of trade through 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