The Free Trade Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Chile was signed in Miami on 6 June 2003, at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, by Robert B. Zoellick, United States Trade Representative, and Soledad Alvear, Chile's foreign minister, in duplicate, the English and Spanish texts being equally authentic. It is not NAFTA and not the United States implementing act promulgated on 3 September. Article 24.4: it enters into force 60 days after the parties exchange written notification that domestic legal procedures have been completed, or after such other period as they may agree. It entered into force on 1 January 2004. Article 24.4: termination effective 180 days after written notification.

The preamble seeks hemispheric integration and the objectives of the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Chapter I establishes a free trade area, consistent with Article XXIV of GATT 1994 and Article V of GATS. Chapters III–IX, at framework level: national treatment and market access for goods, rules of origin, customs administration, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers and trade remedies. A tariff schedule, origin calculator or tariff-evasion guide is not set out here.

Chapters X–XV, still at framework level: investment, including national treatment, most-favoured-nation treatment and the customary-international-law minimum standard; telecommunications; temporary entry for business persons; electronic commerce without customs duties on digital products; competition and designated monopolies; intellectual property. An ISDS, visa or licensing protocol is not transcribed. The labour and environment chapters reaffirm ILO obligations and create an Environment Affairs Council, without a sanctions regulation.

Article 24.1: the annexes, appendices and footnotes form an integral part. Article 24.2: amendments after each party's domestic procedures. Article 24.3: consultations if a WTO provision incorporated into the agreement is amended. It is the first United States free trade agreement with a South American country.

Cover: Villa Vizcaya in Miami, place of the ceremony; we do not claim the hall. Wikimedia Commons, free licence.

Sources consulted: Chile–United States Free Trade Agreement; United States–Chile Free Trade Agreement (USTR final text).