The Free Trade Area of the Americas is an agreement, similar to the World Trade Organization,… The Free Trade Area of the Americas is an agreement, similar to the World Trade Organization, which will be implemented in some form by 2005. At the final negotiations in Quebec, thousands showed up to nonviolently protest the FTAA the many legitimate concerns.

The FTAA is basically an expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement in three ways. NAFTA, which includes the United States, Canada and Mexico, has been gradually reducing the three nations