MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT

Specialty Definition: MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT

Domain	Definition
Agriculture	A trade agreement involving three or more countries (as with the World Trade Organization) in contrast to a bilateral agreement (as with the US-Canada Free Trade agreement) involving only two countries. (references)
Economics	An agreement among more than two persons, firms, or governments. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT

Specialty definitions using "MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT": Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The conclusion of a multilateral agreement on transparency will not negate existing bilateral and plurilateral commitments on entities and types of procurement covered under the current GPA regime. (references)
		While a multilateral agreement on transparency will include meaningful rules and commitments to ensure predictability in procurement systems, it will continue to allow national restrictions on access to domestic procurement for local suppliers. (references)
Economic History	Canada	It is a multilateral agreement that aims to secure greater international competition. (references)
	Canada	Canada accepts binding arbitration of investment disputes to which it is a party only when it has specifically agreed to do so through a bilateral or multilateral agreement, such as a Foreign Investment Protection Agreement. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.