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U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004

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References

1 See USTR Press Release on U.S. and Australia Complete Free Trade Agreement (Feb. 8, 2004), at <http://www.ustr.gov>.

2 See Memorandum on Notification to Congress of Trade Negotiation, 38 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 2034 (Nov. 13, 2002)Google Scholar.

3 Free Trade Agreement (Draft Texts), U.S.-Ausd., Mar. 1, 2004, at <http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/Australia/text/index.htm> [hereinafter U.S.-Austl. FTA],

4 See USTR Press Release on U.S. and Australia Complete Free Trade Agreement, supra note 1. By some estimates, since Australia had been charging about ten times more in tariffs on U.S. manufactured goods than the United States was charging on Australian manufactured goods, eliminating the tariffs may boast U.S. exports of such goods to Australia by about U.S.$2 billion per year. See Becker, Elizabeth, U.S. and Australians Reach Wide-Ranging Trade Accord, N.Y. Times, Feb. 9, 2004, at A5 Google Scholar.

5 See USTR Press Release on U.S. and Australia Complete Free Trade Agreement, supra note 1.

6 U.S.-Austl. FTA, supra note 3, Art. 23.4( 1). For the U.S. national procedures, see Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-210, 116 Stat. 933 (2002)Google Scholar.