| Free Trade Area (FTA) Project Outline | Grade Assessment Factors |
| | Quality of research | | | Quality of Presentation | | | Quality of Interpretation |
| Headings and sub-headings for major sections of the FTA Profile | Depth: salience & diversity of cited sources | Information: Precision & Accuracy of Data | Originality of sources explored & relied on | Fluency: of text and illustrative material | Logic: balance/emphasis placed on report's elements | Conformity to bibliographic practices eg. APA | Awareness: demonstrates how elements revealed in report combine | Insights:interpretation of the information - opps for business, trends discerned. | Summation: Sections 1) & 5) supported by inform't'n presented |
| 4) Trade Policy and Globalisation Posture | √ | √ | | √ | √ | √ |
| a) Contribution to FTAA and other Hemispheric trade Negotiations: | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| i) Main envelopes of concern | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (1) Agricultural subsidies | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (2) Intellectual Property | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (3) Market Access | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (4) Extra-territorial application of 1st world standards | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (a) Labour codes | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (b) Phytosanitary | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (c) Health | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (d) Child labour | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (e) Minimum wage | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (f) Industrial compliances | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (g) Other non-tariff barriers (NTBs) | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| ii) Common position of bloc | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (1) Positions of individual members | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| iii) Extra-bloc negotiating alliances | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (1) Operational | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| (2) Foreseen or anticipated | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |