Transatlantic Free Trade Area

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The Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) is a proposed free trade area between the United States and the European Union. Ideas have also been about such between the US and EFTA with or without the EU.

Many opponents of the EU in Europe hope the US will help them establish a transatlantic free trade counterweight against their perceived socialistic, protectionistic and undemocratic nature of the EU, with EFTA, other independent states in Europe still outside of the EU and, they hope, other states currently within the EU that would opt for a transatlantic free trade area instead of the ever closer union (centralization) of the EU.^{[citation needed]}

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Trade block

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[edit] References

• Will there be a TAFTA?
• Merkel ponders Atlantic free trade zone (Europe-U.S.)

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