... time of the meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade in the Hemisphere participating in the negotiations of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) http://www.abfmiami2003.com Americas Trade ... the liberalization of trade, a body to oversee the implementation of multilaterally agreed and binding trade rules and a forum for the resolution of trade disputes The objective of the WTO is to ... elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers, the granting of national treatment to intraregional trade, and the adoption of a regional legal framework covering rules of origin, safeguards, unfair trade...