FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS
FOURTH MEETING OF MINISTERS OF TRADE
MINISTERIAL DECLARATION
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA
MARCH 19th, 1998

Annex II
Objective by Issue Area
Negotiating Group on
Competition Policy

  • General Objectives:
    To guarantee that the benefits of the FTAA liberalization process not be undermined by anti-competitive business practices.

  • Specific Objectives:
    To advance towards the establishment of juridical and institutional coverage at the national, sub-regional or regional level, that proscribes the carrying out of anti-competitive business practices.

  • To develop mechanisms that facilitate and promote the development of competition policy and guarantee the enforcement of regulations on free competition among and within countries of the Hemisphere