Trade Fact of the Day
The U.S. manufactured goods trade balance improved 122 percent with our FTA partners, but only six percent with non-FTA partners in the first five months of 2008.
About Trade
"Free and fair trade helps secure a future of freedom and promise."
President George W. Bush
World Trade Week Proclomation
May 16, 2008
Facts Of The Day
February 29, 2008
Colombians have enjoyed one-way preferences into the U.S. market under the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA), enacted 16 years ago. ATPA has been renewed numerous times with bipartisan support over the past 16 years. Once the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement is approved most U.S. exports to Colombia would immediately enter duty free, thus leveling the playing field for American companies and workers.
Source: Prepared by the International Trade Administration
