Course summary
Free Trade Agreement Mexico Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala
y Honduras):
The Free Trade Agreement Mexico Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador,
Guatemala and Honduras) covers rules applicable to trade in goods, investments,
services, intellectual property, and dispute resolution.
The new agreement affects Mexico's individual FTAs with Costa Rica, Nicaragua,
and the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras). The new treaty
must be ratified by the legislatures of each country.
The main objective is to establish free trade zone.
The specific objectives of the Free Trade Agreement Mexico Northern
Triangle countries (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) are:
a) encourage expansion and diversification of trade in goods and services
between the Parties;
b) promote conditions of free competition within the free trade area;
c) removing barriers to trade and facilitate the circulation of originating
goods and services between the Parties;
d) removing barriers to capital flows and business people between the
territories of the Parties;
e) increase investment opportunities in the territories of the Parties;
f) protection and enforcement of adequate and effective intellectual property
rights in the territory of the Parties;
g) establish a framework for further cooperation between the Parties, to broaden
and enhance the benefits of this treaty, and
h) create effective procedures for the implementation and enforcement of this
treaty, for its joint administration and for the resolution of disputes.
This treaty does not apply between El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Example of the course Free Trade Agreement Mexico
Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) (Spanish):
The Mexico-Northern Triangle free trade agreement entered into force
on 15 March 2001 between Mexico and El Salvador and Guatemala and
on 01 June for Mexico and Honduras.
Discussions towards a free trade agreement between Mexico and the Central
American countries began in January 1991, when the presidents of
Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua and Mexico signed the Declaration of
Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and
Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El
Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of
these countries.
Free Trade Agreements (FTA) of Mexico -
Free Trade Agreements (FTA) of El Salvador -Free Trade Agreements (FTA) of Honduras
Source: SICE
Educational level: Continuing education / Executive education programs.
International Business
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