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The United States and ASEAN agreed to proceed with work on, inter alia, dialogues on trade and environment

The second meeting of the United States-Bahrain Joint Committee (JC), held on October 2009, discussed, inter alia, initiatives to monitor implementation and compliance with the environmental obligations in the US-Bahrain FTA and additional cooperative efforts related to environmental protection

The United States-Chile FTA, entered into force on January 1, 2004 requires, among others, effective environmental enforcement

During the fifth annual FTA review in December 2009, United States and Singapore discussed, among others, the implementation of the environment chapter and environmental cooperation efforts, and agreed to continue exchanging information on each country's implementation efforts on how to improve monitoring of compliance with the obligations of the environment chapter

The United States-Jordan FTA, fully implemented on January 1, 2010, includes inter alia requirements on effective environmental enforcement

During the fourth annual FTA review in October 2009, the United States and Australia discussed each government's implementation of the obligations contained in the environment chapter of the FTA and exchanged views on how to improve communication on trade and environment issues, including possible collaboration

During the second meeting of the Joint Committee established by the United States-Morocco FTA, in November 2009, the Subcommittees on Agricultural Trade and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Matters met in 2009 and discussed concrete steps to monitor implementation of, and compliance with, the environment chapters of the FTA; both countries agreed to hold a number of discussions in the next few months between trade and environment experts

The United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA), entered into force on February 1, 2009, is the first agreement in force that incorporates groundbreaking provisions concerning the protection of the environment

The United States has continued to be a global leader in seeking to discipline harmful fisheries subsidies and to eliminate barriers to trade in environmental technologies and services, including clean energy technologies, through the WTO as part of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations

In 2009, the Administration actively engaged its trading partners to address illegal logging and associated trade and to identify the potential for a positive agenda in areas where international trade policy and efforts to address global climate change overlap