caryking said:hokiewolf said:caryking said:hokiewolf said:
From the world wide webs:
The following agreements were negotiated and took effect (or were renegotiated) within the last ~25 years:
1. AustraliaUnited States FTA signed 2004 (effective 2005)
2. BahrainUnited States FTA signed 2005 (effective 2006)
3. Dominican RepublicCentral AmericaU.S. FTA (CAFTA-DR) signed 2004 (effective 2006) with Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic
4. ChileUnited States FTA signed 2003 (effective 2004)
5. ColombiaUnited States Trade Promotion Agreement signed 2006 (effective 2012)
6. JordanUnited States FTA signed 2000 (effective December 2001) (on the edge of the 25-year window but typically counted here)
7. MoroccoUnited States FTA signed 2004 (effective 2009)
8. OmanUnited States FTA signed 2004 (effective 2006)
9. PanamaUnited States Trade Promotion Agreement signed 2007 (effective 2012)
10. PeruUnited States Trade Promotion Agreement signed 2006 (effective 2009)
11. SingaporeUnited States FTA signed 2003 (effective 2004)
12. United StatesKorea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) signed 2007 (effective 2012)
13. United StatesMexicoCanada Agreement (USMCA) renegotiated and signed 2018 (effective 2020), replacing NAFTA (originally 1994)
So ~13 FTAs have been put into force by the United States over the past 25 years. These cover trade liberalization with about 20 partner countries in total.
Now, go read each one of those FTA's details and the actual execution and find out of these FTA's were truly what you think are FTA's.
Actually, define, in your belief what a FTA actually is, then research the actual FTA's you posted.
For me, FTA means unfettered free trade including business access for companies.
yeah, I'm not going to complete a book report for you. I answered your question. There are countries that dropped their tariffs to 0 and Trump still tariffs them.
Actually, you answered my question from an uninformed position. Trade is not only about what you think it is. Trade also includes business activity within a country. Foreign companies have had unfettered access into the US forever. The same can't always be said for US companies.
These are all deals we made and they were mutually beneficial. The USMCA was literally negotiated by Trump. We've tariffed counties that we have a trade surplus with. We insist on tariffs for countries volunteering to drop theirs.. we put tariffs on an uninhabited island full of penguins.
No one in this administration is actually arguing this is a stick to get to mutual free trade. It's been used illegally as leverage for a whole host of other reasons