EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION

  

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EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION

Specialty Definition: EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION

DomainDefinition

Finance

The association founded in 1959 to create a free trade area between the member countries, under which individual tariffs of the member countries on imports from non-members are retained but import duties on goods originating in any member country are eliminated. Members currently include Austria, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION

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Business

As a member state of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Norway is a member of the European Economic Area (EU and EFTA trade zone). (references)

Economic History

Czech Rep

The Czech Republic maintains a customs union with Slovakia and is a member of the Central European Free Trade Association (CEFTA). (references)

Mexico

Free-trade negotiations are ongoing with Panama and with the European Free Trade Association (Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). (references)

Turkey

It signed a free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 1991, and has free trade agreements in place with Israel and most Central and Eastern European counties. (references)

Political Economy

NORWAY

The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) surveillance agency (ESA - the organization responsible for insuring EEA compliance) has been monitoring Norway's progress in these areas. (references)

Trade

Finland

Finland is also a member of the European Free Trade Association and the European Economic Area. (references)

Uk

The UK participates in the free trade arrangements of the European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION

Language Translations for "EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Spanish

  

asociación europea de libre cambio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Alternative Orthography: EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 55 52 4F 50 45 41 4E      46 52 45 45      54 52 41 44 45      41 53 53 4F 43 49 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01010101 01010010 01001111 01010000 01000101 01000001 01001110 00100000 01000110 01010010 01000101 01000101 00100000 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000100 01000101 00100000 01000001 01010011 01010011 01001111 01000011 01001001 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0055 0052 004F 0050 0045 0041 004E      0046 0052 0045 0045      0054 0052 0041 0044 0045      0041 0053 0053 004F 0043 0049 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39555249503935482405239392545235383923553534937433554434948

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Translations: Modern
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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