what are the disadvantage of a free trade area 
it can cause jobs to migrate to a country where the cost of production is lower harm the growth of nascent industries that are just beginning to develop allow an economy to become dependent on too few products endanger security if a country becomes dependent on the importation of a vital resource and lead to reduced environmental standards due to the need to compete with other countries that have lower standards the bottom linea free trade area is an agreement among a group of nations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers such as quotas or tariffs there are potential advantages as well as disadvantages for a member nation including improved access to high quality low priced goods and increased economic development on the plus side and job migration out of a country as well as developing a dependence on two few goods on the down side the u s currently participates in 14 free trade areas with 20 different countries 