DR-CAFTA (cent ral American Free trade Agreement) is a free trade agreement between the United States, Costa Rica, the Dominican republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Since the entry of the Dominican republic 2004 the free trade agreement is called officially DR-CAFTA (Dominican Republic - cent ral American Free trade Agreement).

The signing of the agreement released substantial protests in numerous countries of Central America in addition, in the United States. During some trade associations in the USA in the agreement national jobs see endangered, then the Central American enterprises are afraid v.a. the superior economic competition of the US economy. One of the largest points of criticism on the part of different NROs is that the countries may do their partially very low work and environmental standards maintained. The CAFTA agreement as a further step seen in negotiations one fails the free trade agreement FTAA (Free trade AREA OF the of America), which is to cover the USA and 34 countries of Latin America (with the exception Cubas) to intersperse. The DR-CAFTA guarantees the unrestricted entrance to the market of these Central American countries to US firms. Until 2015 must have diminished the Central American countries all import hurdles for US products. But the straight import adjustment, v.a. by tariffs, is to be protected an important instrument of many Central American countries around the economic development in the own country.

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