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FTAA Meeting Participants

POSTED: Wednesday, November 5,
UPDATED: 11:34 am EST November 12, 2003

Those involved in the Free Trade Area of the Americas meetings include:

  • Kathryn McCallion, Canada's vice minister for trade, current chair of the FTAA negotiations
  • Vice Chair Jorge Guillermo Campbell, vice minister for trade in Argentina
  • The Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) made up of trade ministers from all the participating countries
  • An administrative secretariat who provides logistical and administrative on-site assistance, translation and interpretation; maintains, publishes, and distributes all official documents; and reports directly to the TNC
  • The Tripartite Committee that provides technical and logistical assistance
  • The Committee on Electronic Commerce that examines issues affecting electronic commerce
  • The Consultative Group on Small Economies that represents the concerns of smaller countries
  • The Committee for the Participation of Civil Society receives and presents input from concerned sectors of civil society regarding the FTAA
  • The committees do not have the status of negotiating groups.

    There are nine negotiating groups dealing with specialized areas:

  • Market Access
  • Agriculture
  • Government Procurement
  • Investment
  • Competition Policy
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Services
  • Dispute Settlement
  • Subsidies, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties

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