Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

Friedman presented his analysis of the balance of trade in Free to Choose, widely considered his most significant popular work.

A high volume of trade and migration between the United States and Canada has generated closer ties, especially after the signing of the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988.

Nevertheless, trade between the two countries has continued to expand in both absolute and relative terms for the last two hundred years, but especially following the 1988 FTA and the subsequent signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) in 1994 which has since further merged the two economies.

Since the U. S .- Chile Free Trade Agreement went into effect on January 1, 2004, U. S .- Chilean trade has increased by 154 %.

Free trade and travel within the country also helped Croatian industries that imported and exported throughout all the former republics.

On 5 September 2005, the Congress of the Dominican Republic ratified a free trade agreement with the U. S. and five Central American countries, the Dominican Republic – Central America Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA-DR ).

Free trade

* European Free Trade Association, a European trade bloc which was established as an alternative for European states who did not join the then-European Economic Community.

* European Free Trade Area, other European trade blocs

The European Free Trade Association ( or EFTA ) is a free trade organisation between four European countries that operates parallel to, and is linked to, the European Union ( EU ).

* Free trade

Recent interpretations of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international trade law ( e. g., North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) Chapter 11 actions ) have been inclusive of corporations, and even of certain individuals.

# Economic rewards: In the case of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), many different countries receive economic benefits from membership in the free trade agreement.

Free trade between countries allows each country to do what it does best, and benefit from the products and services that others do best.

Free trade zones have stimulated investment in garment assembly, light manufacturing, and data entry by foreign firms.

Jordan is a member of the Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement, the Euro-Mediterranean free trade agreement, the Agadir Agreement, and also enjoys advanced status with the EU.

Among the various free trade agreements that Morocco has ratified with its principal economic partners, are The Euro-Mediterranean free trade area agreement with the European Union with the objective of integrating the European Free Trade Association at the horizons of 2012 ; the Agadir Agreement, signed with Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, within the framework of the installation of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area ; the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement with United States which came into force on 1 January 2006, and lately the agreement of free exchange with Turkey.

* 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987

* The enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) on 1 January 1994, creating a North American free trade zone consisting of Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

During the Second World War, many people took advantage of the privileged location of the Gallery, whose Southern door provided access to the Free zone, whilst the Château's entrance was in the occupied zone.

This was evidenced by the formation of movements in the Vichy zone centered on such figures as Henri Frenay ( Combat ), Emmanuel d ' Astier de la Vigerie ( Libération-sud ), and François de Menthon, ( Liberté ), each of whom was, independently, an agent of the Free French.

The Neutral Ground Treaty was affected in 1806, declaring the area " Sabine Free State ," a demilitarized zone, which became the neutral strip for outlaws, desperadoes, criminals and filibusters.

The city's proximity to Southern California and its large, skilled, diverse, and relatively inexpensive workforce, makes it an attractive city for foreign companies looking to establish extensive industrial parks composed of assembly plants that are called maquiladoras, even more so than other cities in the US-Mexican border zone, taking advantage of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) to export products.

Being-at that time-actually located in the British Zone of Occupation the Control Commission for Germany-British Element and the Office of Military Government for Germany, U. S. ( OMGUS ) agreed in 1947 to constitute the cities of Bremen and then Wesermünde-in their borders altered in 1939-as a German state named again Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, becoming at that occasion an exclave of the American Zone of Occupation within the British zone.

* Free movement of people within the Schengen zone

* Free trade zone

As early as the end of 1918 the French occupational forces under General Gérard supported a movement under the leadership of Ludwig Haass which called itself “ Free Palatinate .” This was one of several separatist movements in the French occupation zone on the left bank of the Rhine.

They then visit the Masons and learn that they are behind enemy lines in " Occupied America " ( as opposed to Free America, the unoccupied zone ) and that Robert's father has been executed because the guns from his store-the ones he gave to the boys-were found to be missing by the occupation authorities.

The Sandveld Nature Reserve is protecting the biotope of a sandveld zone of the Free State.

After the invasion of the free zone by German forces, he joined the Free French Forces in Algiers, where he met his future wife, Yvette Seva, with whom he had five children.

This was accomplished with the signing of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement ( FTA ) of 1989 and much of the key implementation process of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), which added Mexico to the Canada-U. S. free trade zone.

* Free economic zone, designated area in which companies are taxed very lightly or not at all

* Free speech zone

* Free City a special economic zone with a distinct legal structure.

* Free trade zone ( FTZ )

Operation Torch had an important aftermath on the French military rallying the Army of Africa to the Free French cause and in the same time infuriated Hitler who ordered the occupation of metropolitan France's southern, said free, zone as well as air raids against French Algeria cities by the Libya based Luftwaffe.

By around 200 AD, it is likely that the Dacian language was confined to those parts of the dava zone occupied by the Free Dacian groups, which may have amounted to little more than the eastern Carpathians.

On December 30, 2008, McKinney was aboard the ship Dignity as it attempted to enter the Gaza Strip, which had its coastal area declared a " closed military zone " by Israel, while on a humanitarian mission by the Free Gaza Movement from Cyprus.

Apart from Lujiazui Trade and Finance Zone, there is Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, the largest free trade zone in mainland China covering approximately 10 km² in north-east Pudong.

Although the service sector has recently overtaken agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans ( due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones ), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place ( behind mining ) in terms of export earnings.