A free-trade area is the region encompassing a trade bloc whose member countries have signed a free-trade agreement (FTA). Such agreements involve cooperation between at least two countries to reduce trade barriers â import quotas and tariffs â and to increase trade of goods and services with each other.
The team can use interviews or written surveys to identify target values to use as goals for improving the product or service produced by the process. Identifying a problem associated with the process helps define the process improvement objective.
A quality assurance and improvement program is designed to enable an evaluation of the internal. audit activityâs conformance with the Definition of Internal Auditing and the Standards and an. evaluation of whether internal auditors apply the Code of Ethics. The program also assesses the effi-.