ALCA - FTAA - ZLEA - Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC)


	Co-chairs: Brazil and the United States
	"... The TNC will have the responsibility of guiding the work of the negotiating groups and of deciding on the overall architecture of the agreement and institutional issues. The TNC is to take the overall responsibility of ensuring the full participation of all the countries in the FTAA process. It will also ensure that this issue, in particular the concerns of the smaller economies and concerns related to countries with different levels of development will be dealt with within each negotiating group..."
	From the San Jose Ministerial Declaration

Trade Negotiations Committee Meetings

Documents Approved by the
FTAA Trade Negotiations Committee

Report of the Trade Negotiations Committee on the Results of the Progress Achieved in Relation to the Treatment of Differences in the Levels of Development and Size of Economies in Each of the Negotiating Groups (November 2003)

Elements for Consideration in the Evaluation of the Candidate Sites for the FTAA Secretariat (November 2003)

Report of the Trade Negotiations Committee on the Progress in the Implementation of the Hemispheric Cooperation Program and the Initial Meeting with Donors
(November 2003)

List of Derestricted Documents (November 2, 2002 - November 21, 2003)

Document on Methods and Modalities for Negotiations
(October 2002)

"...In accordance with numeral 14 of the Buenos Aires Ministerial Declaration and taking into account the recommendations of the Consultative Group on Smaller Economies, the Trade Negotiations Committee adopted the following Guidelines or Directives for the Treatment of Differences in the Levels of Development and Size of the Economies.
(November 2002)

Guidance and Instructions to the FTAA Entities:

Guidance and Instructions: From the XV meeting of the TNC in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, October 2003

Guidance and Instructions to the FTAA Entities: From the XIV meeting of the TNC in San Salvador, El Salvador, July 2003

Guidance and Instructions to the FTAA Entities: From the XIII meeting of the TNC in Puebla, Mexico, April 2003

Other TNC Documents:
TNC/inf/45: Argentine Fund for Horizontal Co-operation
TNC/inf/69: Speech given by Venezuela’s Minister of Production and Commerce, Dr. Adina Bastida, at the Inauguration of the Tenth Meeting of the FTAA Trade Negotiations Committe
TNC/inf/70: Statement by the Chair of the FTAA Trade Negotiations Committee Ambassador Roberto Betancourt Ruales, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador at the Second Session of the Tenth Meeting of the TNC, Panama, 12 & 13 May, 2002
TNC/inf/77: Statement by Ambassador Roberto Betancourt R., Chair of the FTAA Trade Negotiations Committee, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador; Eleventh Meeting of The FTAA Trade Negotiations Committee, Santo Domingo, 28 August 2002
TNC/cbf/inf/29: CLADEC: Questionnaire Form

Documents Presented by Countries to the
FTAA Trade Negotiations Committee

Venezuela - Working Document

Venezuela - Memorandum

Venezuela - Memorandum

Venezuela - Proposal - Consultative Group on Smaller Economies

Venezuela - Production Development Fund

Venezuela - Memorandum

Venezuela - The Treatment of Smaller Economies and the Different Levels of Development

Canada - Paper on Cultural Diversity in the FTAA Negotiations

Canada - A Concept Paper For Addressing Environmental Considerations in the FTAA Context

"Vision of the FTAA" documents presented at the Fifteenth Meeting of the TNC in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, September 29 – October 3, 2003:

Uruguay

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Dominican Republic, Panama, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia


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