Evidencia 3: Ensayo “Free Trade Agreement (FTA): advantages and

disadvantages”

Presentado por:
Maryelys Jojana Donado Urrea

Servicio nacional de Aprendizaje SENA

2021
NEGOCIACION INTERNACIONAL
The Colombia- US TLC is constitud by norms and procedures derived from
them, which are applicable in equal conditions for the two countries. The TLC
is not a Law, nor is it conformed by them; Homewer, according to the
Political Constitution of our country, international agreements have all the
rigor and have to be complied with like any other current legislation.
The TLC is a King of guide on how to export , import among the signatory
countries, with general recommendations and criteria that determine the
framework under which each country can act to obtain the greatest benefits.
In this sense on the one hand, it is necessry for the two countries to issue
legislation on specific issues that take advantage of bilateral conditions; on
the other, each country is free to dictat its nationa ecoomic policies and take
the measures it deems pertinet to boost international trade and especially to
protect and promote the export of its products.
TLC wen into ffect on May 2021, signed between Juan Manuel Santos and
Barack Obama at the Summit of the Americas without possessing a due date
but with the possibility of seeking reforms or termination by each of the
parties. This
FTA ORGANIZATION COLOMBIA- UNITED STATES
Preamble
Chapter 1 Initial Provisions and Initial Definitions
Chapter 2 National Treatment and Access of Goods to the market
Chapter 3 Textiles and Clothing
Chapter 4 Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures
Chapter 5 Customs procedure and Trade Facilitation
Chapter 6 Sanitary and phytosanitary Measures
Chapter 7 Technical Barriers to trade
Chapter 8 Cmmercial Defense
Chapter 9 Public Contracting
Chapter 10 Investment
Chapter 11 Cross-border Trade in services
Chapter 12 Financial services
Chapter 13 competition Policy
Chapter 14 Telecommunications
Chapter 15 Electronic Commerce
Chapter 16 Intellectual property rihts
Chapter 17 Labor Issues
Chapter 18 Environment
Chapter 19 Transparency
Chapter 20 Administration of the Agreement and Strengthening of
Commercial capacities
Chapter 21 Dispute Resolution
Chapter 22 General Eceptions
Chapter 23 Final Provisions
These international trade agreements bring to Colombia, The advantae that
their employers can sell their products and servces abroad under bettler
conditions, witthout paying taxes, without being subject to other barriers,
which do have to pay in case of not having these treaties.
This Helps the national economy of a country to grow as it has a much wider
consumer market tan when it is limited to is its entrepreneurs to sell in the
domestic market.

This helps the national economy of a country to grow as it has a much wider
consumer market tan when it is limite to its entrepreneurs to sell in the
domestic market.

Therefore, free trade is considered positive, because the lak trade barriers
makes, exporting easy relatively cheap. In this way, a contry can focus is
resources more efficiently and achieve a higher real income. Despite the
global benefits of free trade for a country’s economy, there may be ome
impotante drawbacks to the establishment of ree trade agreements
Colombia is not threat to the US in political and economic matters, since the
total production of the countr is only, f the production. Colombia we are
small in the impact that it can generate in the Norh american production
therefore the economists consider that TLC will be generous.