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Chile-United States |
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Background and Negotiations |
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Chile and the
United States announced their negotiations towards a
free trade agreement on 29 November 2000.
Negotiations began December 6-7, 2000 in Washington
D.C. and concluded 11 December 2002. The agreement
was signed in Miami on 6 June 2003.
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Entry into Force |
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In the United States the FTA was approved through
the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Implementation Act, which
was passed by the House of Representatives as
H.R.2738 on 24 July 2003 and in the Senate on 31
July 2003 and became Public Law 108-77 on 3
September 2003. In Chile the FTA was approved by the
Congress on 23 October 2003 and implemented through
Decree 312. A number of modifications were necessary
to the Spanish text, which were set out in Decree
149 and modifications were necessary to the US
Tariff Schedule, which were set out in USITC
Publication 3652 of December 2003 and made effective
by Presidential Proclamation 7746. The U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement entered into
force on 01 January 2004.
Tariffs for new Chilean products were eliminated on 01 January 2011, seven years
after the entry into force of the U.S.-Chile FTA.
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Implementation of the
Agreement |
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Article 21.1
of the Agreement establishes a Free Trade
Commission made up of cabinet-level representatives
or their designees. The Commission is responsible
for supervising the implementation and further
elaboration of the Agreement; to seek to resolve
disputes arising under the Agreement; to supervise
the work of committees and working groups
established under the Agreement and to consider any
other matters that may affect the operation of the
Agreement.
The Commission may also establish committees and
working groups, and further the implementation of
the Agreement by approving modifications of the
tariff elimination schedules (Annex
3.3) by accelerating tariff elimination; the
specific rules of origin established in
Annex 4.1, the Common Guidelines references in
Article 4.17 and the Sections of Annex 9.1
of the Government Procurement chapter.
Documents relating to the Free Trade
Commission |
16 October 2018 |
Washington, D.C. Twelfth meeting of the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Commission
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11 June 2015 |
Washington, D.C. Tenth meeting of the U.S.–Chile Free
Trade Commission
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02-03 June 2014 |
Santiago, Chile:
Ninth meeting of the U.S.–Chile Free
Trade Commission |
03 July 2012 |
San Diego, United States:
Eighth meeting of the U.S.–Chile Free
Trade Commission |
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August 2011 |
Santiago, Chile:
Seventh meeting of the U.S.–Chile Free
Trade Commission |
12 December 2008 |
Santiago, Chile:
Fifth meeting of the Free Trade Commission
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29-30 November 2007 |
Washington, D.C.:
Fourth meeting of the Free Trade Commission
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24 January 2007 |
Santiago, Chile: Third meeting of the Free Trade Commission
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05 December 2005 |
Washington, D.C. :
Second meeting of the Free Trade
Commission |
03 June 2004 |
Pucón, Chile:
First meeting of the Free Trade Commission |
Source:
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON);
Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) |
Article 7.8 of the Agreement establishes a
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, comprising representatives of each Party.
Documents relating to the Committee on Technical Barriers to
Trade |
02 December 2010 |
Eighth Meeting of the Committee on Technical
Barriers to Trade
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Fuente: Dirección
General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON) |
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Environmental Cooperation Agreements |
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The U.S.-Chile FTA provides, in
Article 19.3,
for the establishment of an Environmental Affairs
Council, to meet yearly to discuss the
implementation of and progress in Chapter 19.
On 17 June 2003, Chile and the United States signed
an Agreement on Environmental Cooperation as part of
the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement. This agreement
created a bilateral consultative mechanism, the
Joint Commission for Environmental Cooperation, to
address environmental and natural resource issues.
This Joint Commission is to meet every two years.
The first meetings of the Environment Affairs
Council and the U.S. - Chile Joint Commission on
Environmental Cooperation were held in Santiago,
Chile on 22 July 2004. This meeting initiated the
development of a joint Work Program for 2005-2006. The Environmental Council has held five meetings,
the last of which took place in Washington, DC on 20 January 2010.
On 09 January 2013, the sixth meeting of the U.S.-Chile Environmental Affairs
Council and fourth meeting of the U.S.-Chile Joint
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
took place.
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Labor Cooperation Mechanism |
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Article 18.4 of
the FTA establishes a Labor Affairs Council to meet
within the first year of the entry into force of the
Agreement and thereafter as often as it considers necessary. Article 18.5 sets out a Labor Cooperation
Mechanism, elaborated in Annex 18.5. |
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Articles
and Related Studies |
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May 2015 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Análisis de las relaciones comerciales entre Chile y Estados Unidos en el marco del
Tratado de Libre Comercio
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January 2014 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Evaluación de las relaciones comerciales entre Chile y Estados Unidos a diez años
de la entrada en vigencia del Tratado de Libre Comercio |
January 2013 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Evaluación de las relaciones comerciales entre Chile y Estados Unidos a nueve años de la entrada en vigencia del Tratado de Libre Comercio |
January
2012 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Relaciones económicas entre Chile y Estados Unidos, evaluación a
ocho años de la entrada en vigencia del Tratado de Libre Comercio.
Enero 2012
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December
2010 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Relaciones económicas entre Chile y Estados Unidos, evaluación a siete años de la entrada en vigencia del Tratado de Libre Comercio. Diciembre 2010
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December 2009 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Relaciones económicas entre Chile y Estados Unidos, evaluación a seis años del TLC |
January 2007 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Evaluación de las relaciones comerciales Chile-Estados Unidos después de tres años de entrada en vigencia del TLC |
18 August 2006 |
Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). United States - Chile Free Trade Agreement:
2005 Annual Product Review and Tariff
Determinations |
March 2006 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Evaluación TLC entre Chile y EE.UU.
2005. |
March 2005 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Evaluación TLC entre Chile y EE.UU.
2004 |
January 2005 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Evaluación TLC entre Chile y EE.UU.
2004 |
July 2004 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Evaluación TLC Chile - EE.UU Enero -
abril 2004 |
November 2003 |
Banco Central de Chile. Tratado de Libre
Comercio entre Chile y Estados Unidos:
Revisión de estudios que cuantifican su
impacto |
September 2003 |
Congressional Research Services. CRS Issue Brief for Congress: Trade and the
Americas |
August 2003 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Tratado de Libre Comercio Chile-Estados
Unidos |
July 2003 |
U.S. Department of Labor. U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement:
Potential Economywide and Selected Sectoral
Effects |
June 2003 |
Secretaría General de la Comunidad Andina.
Análisis de Tratado de Libre Comercio Chile -
Estados Unidos |
June 2003 |
United States International Trade Commission (USITC). U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement: Potential
Economywide and Selected Sectoral Effects |
June 2003 |
Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
Final Environmental Review of the U.S.-Chile
Free Trade Agreement |
April 2003 |
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, Chile (DIRECON). Chile-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Lessons and
best practices |
December 2002 |
Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). Summary of the Free Trade Agreement between
the United States of America and Chile |
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Sources |
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Recent Developments |
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