US President George W. Bush signed a proclamation Monday, December 10 bringing a US-Jordan free trade agreement into force on December 17, the government said.
"I am extremely pleased that we will see the US-Jordan free trade agreement inter into force this year," US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said in a statement. "This agreement demonstrates our strong support for Jordan's program of economic reform."
Bush signed the agreement into law September 28, hours before welcoming Jordan's King Abdullah II to the White House for talks on combating terrorism. The accord -- negotiated under Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton -- cleared the US Senate barely two weeks after the September 11 terror strikes. It had languished in the US Congress for nearly a year. — (AFP, Washington)
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