Free Trade Agreements

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Contents 1 Free Trade Agreements 2 NAFTA and CFTA 2.1 General Rule 2.2 Panel Decisions

Free Trade Agreements

Rule	Free trade agreements are to be cited as treaties. If they have not entered into force at the time of publication, place (due to enter into force <full date>) following the parties' names.
Example	Central America–Dominican Republic–United States Free Trade Agreement, 5 August 2004, United States–Central American Nations–Dominican Republic (due to enter into force 1 January 2006) <http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html> at 29 August 2005.

NAFTA and CFTA

General Rule

Rule	The founding agreements of NAFTA and CFTA are to be cited as treaties.
Example	North American Free Trade Agreement, opened for signature 17 December 1992, 32 ILM 289 (1993) (entered into force 1 January 1994) (‘NAFTA’).

Location NAFTA

• This is the North American Free Trade Agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico, which succeeded and subsumed the CFTA to include Mexico in the free trade zone.
• A full-text copy of the NAFTA is available at:

http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/DefaultSite/index_e.aspx?DetailID=78

CFTA

• This is the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement between the US and Canada.
• A full-text copy of the CFTA is available at:

http://wehner.tamu.edu/MGMT.WWW/NAFTA/fta/.

• NOTE: This is not an official copy.

Panel Decisions

Rule	Panel decisions are to be cited as follows: <Deciding Body>, <Title> (<Year>) <Report series>, <Pinpoint>. As there are CFTA panels under both Chapter 18 and Chapter 19 of the Agreement, this should be specified. There is also an ‘Extraordinary Challenge Committee’ under Chapter 19, which should be specified if relevant.
Example	CFTA Ch 18 Panel, In the Matter of Canada’s Landing Requirement for Pacific Coast Salmon and Herring (1989) 2 TCT 7162, 1 TTR 237.

Location

• All Panel Decisions of both NAFTA and CFTA are available on Westlaw by searching the 'NAFTA-BIP' database.

• NAFTA decisions are also available on Lexis and online at the NAFTA Secretariat:

http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/DefaultSite/index_e.aspx?DetailID=76

The Melbourne University Law Review Association and the Australian Guide to Legal Citation do not endorse these rules and the rules contained in the MMILC do not in any way modify or change the rules contained in the Australian Guide to Legal Citation