US-Jordan Free Trade Agreement

• March 2007. Oxfam Briefing Paper #102. All costs, no benefits: How TRIPS-plus intellectual property rules in the US-Jordan FTA affect access to medicines.
  • Full report
  • Press release
  • Reuters story on the report

• Official Documents
  • Full Text of the Free Trade Agreement.
    • Article 4(20), which restricts compulsory licensing.
  • Memorandum of Understanding on Issues Related to the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Under the Agreement Between the United States and Jordan on the Establishment of a Free Trade Area.
• US Government Documents
  • Main USTR Page on US-Jordan FTA.
  • September 25, 2001. Report by Mary Jane Bolle for the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement.
  • September 21, 2001. White House press release. Overview of the US-Jordan Free Trade Agreement.
  • July 31, 2001. Office of Management and Budget. Statememt in Support of H.R. 2603 - US-Jordan Free Trade Area Implementation Act.
• Jordanian Government Page on Its Free Trade Agreements with US and the EU.
• Business Group Documents
  • WWW.JORDANUSFTA.COM Hosted by the FTA Unit of the American Chamber of Commerce in Jordan.
  • Munir Sukhtian Group of Companies Legal Page.
• NGO Documents
  • October 26, 2000. Rob Weissman's note to ip-health. US-Jordan FTA and the Threat to Compulsory Licensing.
• News Stories
  • August 1, 2000. Amy Henderson and Rana Awwad for the Jordan Times. Jordan eyes September deadline for signing of FTA with US.