Regional Rules in the Global Trading System
Title | Regional Rules in the Global Trading System PDF eBook |
Author | Antoni Estevadeordal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 541 |
Release | 2009-06-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521760844 |
This book describes the rules governing regional trade agreements, providing new insights into the interplay between regional and multilateral trade rules.
Regional Rules on the Global Trading System
Title | Regional Rules on the Global Trading System PDF eBook |
Author | Antoni Estevadeordal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789287046680 |
The proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past two decades has highlighted the need to look closely at the potential conflicts between regional and WTO rules or disciplines. A major obstacle to advancing understanding of RTAs is the absence of detailed information about their contents. This has limited the debate between those who view RTAs as discriminatory instruments hostage to protectionist interests and those who see them as conducive to multilateral trade opening. This book provides detailed analysis of RTA rules in six key areas - market access, technical barriers to trade, contingent protection, investment, services and competition policy - across dozens of the main RTAs in the world. The analysis helps to provide new insights into the interplay between regional and multilateral trade rules, advances understanding of the economic effects of RTAs and contributes to the discussion on how to deal with the burgeoning number of RTAs.
Regional Integration and the Global Trading System
Title | Regional Integration and the Global Trading System PDF eBook |
Author | Kym Anderson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Commerce |
ISBN |
Discusses questions surrounding the relationship between regional integration agreements and the global trading system. It has been revised following a conference at the GATT and forms part of the background material for a study in the GATT Secretariat's annual report, "International Trade".
Regional Rules Global Trading Syst
Title | Regional Rules Global Trading Syst PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past two decades has highlighted the need to look closely at the potential conflicts between regional and WTO rules or disciplines. A major obstacle to advancing understanding of RTAs is the absence of detailed information about their contents. This has limited the debate between those who view RTAs as discriminatory instruments hostage to protectionist interests and those who see them as conducive to multilateral trade opening. This book provides detailed analysis of RTA rules in six key areas - market access, technical barriers to trade, contingent protection, investment, services and competition policy - across dozens of the main RTAs in the world. The analysis helps to provide new insights into the interplay between regional and multilateral trade rules, advances understanding of the economic effects of RTAs and contributes to the discussion on how to deal with the burgeoning number of RTAs.
Multilateralizing Regionalism
Title | Multilateralizing Regionalism PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Baldwin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 743 |
Release | 2009-02-19 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1139475398 |
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have proliferated around the world in the past two decades, and now nearly all members of the WTO are party to at least one. Besides tariffs and rules of origin regulating trade in goods, many RTAs now include provisions on services, investments, technical barriers to trade and competition rules, as well as a host of issues not directly related to trade. The geographic reach of RTAs is expanding, with transcontinental agreements spreading forcefully alongside intra-regional agreements. 'Multilateralizing Regionalism' was the title of a major conference held from 10–12 September 2007 at the WTO in Geneva. Brought together in this publication, the conference papers achieve two things. First, they marshall detailed, new empirical work on the nature of the 'Spaghetti Bowl' and the problems it poses for the multilateral trade system. Second, they contribute fresh and creative thinking on how to 'tame the tangle' of regional trade agreements.
Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System
Title | Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey A. Frankel |
Publisher | Peterson Institute |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780881322026 |
Covers trends from 1957 to 1995.
Regionalism and the World Trading System
Title | Regionalism and the World Trading System PDF eBook |
Author | World Trade Organization. Secretariat |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Customs unions |
ISBN |
A review of the principles and effects of customs unions, free trade areas and other regional integration agreements. Includes a bibliography and a table of all agreements notified to GATT from 1947 to 1994.