ISDS Case Map
TIFA
Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (USA)
Kazakhstan and the United States cooperate within the framework of the Central Asia Trade and Investment Facilitation Agreement, which promotes increased trade within the region.
The United States and Egypt discussed ways to further expand fair and reciprocal trade and investment between the two countries.
A wide-ranging meeting held November 29 between trade representatives of the Philippines and the United States covered economic issues including a bilateral free trade agreement.
Even if vacant posts in Washington are filled and quickly approved, it would take time to process the appointments, Minister Without Portfolio John Deng said.
An upgraded Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) version, to the level of a bilateral free trade agreement, will pave the way for higher economic engagement between the US and Malaysia, said official
Manila is sending a mission to Washington later this month to begin preliminary talks on the US-Philippines free-trade agreement.
Lighthizer stressed the need to address longstanding trade barriers, including on U.S. meat and other agriculture exports.
Additional steps for liberalizing and deepening commercial relations between the two countries in the long term will be reviewed.
“Now without TPPA, we are thinking of having an upgraded version of TIFA with the US, as TIFA is an agreement to go towards the goal of establishing a free-trade agreement at the end,” Second International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chuan said
The United States, one of the Cambodia’s key trading partners, is going to assess sanitary and phyto-sanitary standards in Cambodia, opening up the opportunity for Cambodian agricultural products to be exported to the US.
