Weekly Report - 18 May 2004

CENTRAL AMERICA | Cafta to be signed this month. The US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (Cafta) will be signed in Washington on 28 May. The US has finished negotiations with the Dominican Republic to include that nation in Cafta, but a period of congressional consultation on that agreement required under the Trade Act has not yet concluded. The Bush administration plans to submit a single legislative package to the US Congress that includes Cafta and the Dominican Republic together.