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Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA): A proposed hemispheric trade zone that would cover all of the countries in North, South, and Latin America. The FTAA is highly controversial.

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  26. panama
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  32. suriname
  33. trinidad and tobago
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  3. benin
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  5. burkina faso
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  7. cameroon
  8. cape verde
  9. central african rep.
  10. chad
  11. comoros
  12. congo, democratic republic of the
  13. congo, republic of
  14. cote d'ivoire
  15. djibouti
  16. egypt
  17. equatorial guinea
  18. eritrea
  19. ethiopia
  20. gabon
  21. gambia, the
  22. ghana
  23. guinea
  24. guinea-bissau
  25. kenya
  26. lesotho
  27. liberia
  28. libya
  29. madagascar
  30. malawi
  31. mali
  32. mauritania
  33. mauritius
  34. morocco
  35. mozambique
  36. namibia
  37. niger
  38. nigeria
  39. rwanda
  40. sao tome and principe
  41. senegal
  42. seychelles
  43. sierra leone
  44. somalia
  45. south africa
  46. sudan
  47. swaziland
  48. tanzania
  49. togo
  50. tunisia
  51. uganda
  52. zambia
  53. zimbabwe
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  2. fiji
  3. kiribati
  4. maldives
  5. marshall islands
  6. micronesia, federated states of
  7. nauru
  8. new zealand
  9. palau
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  11. samoa
  12. solomon islands
  13. tonga
  14. tuvalu
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