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Procurement:   Texas governors have committed the state to be bound to the following trade agreements’ restrictive government procurement provisions:

• World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement (for a list of the 38 countries party to the WTO AGP, click here)
• U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
• U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement 
• U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement
• U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement 
• Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
• U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement 
• Peru- and Colombia-U.S. Free Trade Agreements

Correspondence

• USTR Portman’s letter to Gov. Perry thanking him for signing on to the government procurement rules in the U.S.-Panama FTA and AFTA (05/13/05).
• Gov. Perry’s letter to USTR Zoellick signing on to the government procurement rules in the U.S.-Panama FTA and AFTA (1/11/05).
• USTR Zoellick’s letter to Gov. Perry requesting that he sign the state on to the government procurement rules in the U.S.-Panama FTA and AFTA (12/03/04).
• Gov. Perry’s letter to USTR Zoellick signing onto CAFTA’s restrictive procurement rules (11/21/03).
• Letter from Sen. Shapleigh to Gov. Perry concerning CAFTA (6/3/04).

In the news

• “Texas Worker Retraining Funds Run Out,” San Antonio Express-News (4/23/04)