Free Trade Area of the Americas; Notice and Request for Views

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The Trade Policy Staff Committee is issuing this notice to request advice and information useful in the preparation for the meeting of Western Hemisphere trade ministers, to be held on May 16, 1997 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. At the Summit of the Americas, leaders of the Western Hemisphere agreed that countries should conclude negotiation of a ``Free Trade Area of the Americas'' by 2005. The trade ministers were asked to oversee the negotiation.