Common Market

In short, the whole country was exhibiting the bustle of a thriving settlement, where the highways were thronged with sleighs, bearing piles of rough household furniture, studded, here and there, with the smiling faces of women and children, happy in the excitement of novelty; or with loads of produce, hastening to the common market at Albany, that served as so many snares to induce the emigrants to enter into those wild mountains in search of competence and happiness.

Yet a more worrisome impact of a delay in the launching of a common market is the danger of the 33-year regional grouping becoming less relevant to the interests of the people.

Japan and a South American common market agreed Tuesday in Tokyo to promote cooperative exchanges in fields such as human resources development and technical assistance, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.

The Argentine president said his country's economy is expected to grow more than 5% in 1998 and appealed to Toyota to take advantage of economic merits expected from the creation of a South American common market, known as Mercosur, they said.

* The 15-nation European Union has opened free trade discussions with Mexico and the Southern Common Market.

The two principal Western Hemisphere regional trade agreements (RTA)--the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR)--and other RTAs among the countries of the Americas culminated in a proposal for creating a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) within the next eight years, said James Wesberry.

Like many other long-time free traders, I was persuaded (in retrospect, perhaps lulled) by the arguments in favor of NAFTA, the treaty that created a common market linking Mexico, Canada, and the United States, when it passed Congress in late 1993.

Adopting this strategy, communities that makeup the Mid-South Common Market and the Niagara Region are examining their opportunities as trade and distribution centers to capitalize on a more interdependent global economy.

Thus, the European Common Market Concept emerged to eliminate the Tariffs and Restrictive Standards between members and establish targets to achieve a "Unified Market" by the end of 1992.

market activity and the creation of the European common market in 1992.

A counter-proposal from the Common Market countries would essentially limit the opening of new CFC-manufacturing facilities.

I am a 72-year-old woman, never in my lifetime have I ever had a vote to go into the Common Market.