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Jordan
Ten years of mutual cooperation between Jordan and the European Union have passed with success in certain fields and disappointing results in others, according to an EU evaluation report released on Wednesday. The Kingdom's benefit from EU programmes laid down in the Barcelona process were dismal in the trade sector, according to the report.
The Labor Ministry on Monday expressed some reservations on the information contained in the US National Labor Committee report on workers at Jordan's garment factories which are exporting duty-free under the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Iraq and Jordan are in talks for a free-trade agreement to boost commercial ties between the countries.
The impact of the Qualifying Industrial Zones -- a concept proposed by the United States in 1996 to bolster cooperation between Jordan and Israel after the Jordan-Israel peace agreement was signed in 1995 -- remains, after 10 years, difficult to determine. In spite of the tremendous growth of exports to the US market through these zones, QIZs continue to receive mixed reviews and their future is uncertain. Most importantly, the impact of the QIZs on the peace effort has been insignificant, to say the least.
Several agreements are in the pipeline to accelerate Jordan's free trade drive and maximise the advantages of Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZs), Industry and Trade Minister Salem Khazaaleh said on Saturday.
The next time your Wal-Mart sweatpants read “Made in Jordan QIZ” on the label, consider the relationship between economic integration and peace. The truth might not be what you expect.
The newly signed agreement intends to improve supervision on compliance with rules of origin under the qualified industrial zones (QIZ) treaty.
The Jordan-United States free-trade agreement was supposed to be a labor-rights model. It has been a disaster -- 'globalization' at its worst.
Critics of US trade policy say the recent incidents in Jordan illustrate the dangers of forging trade agreements that don't adequately protect workers from abuse.
A leading US labour coalition and an industry group have filed a complaint with the US Trade Representative asking that it formally sanction the government of Jordan for "gross workers' rights violations" under a controversial free trade agreement with the United States and Israel.
