Bush signs trade agreement draft law with Jordan

US President George Bush on Friday signed a draft law that provides for implementing the free trade agreement with Jordan that had been negotiated in the year 2000.

Bush had signed this act which represents the first American trade agreement with an Arab country just four days after the US senate gave the Congress final approval on the agreement.

According to items of the said agreement, the two countries will remove customs tariff on all industrial commodities and agricultural production within 10 years.