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 Global Trading Syst
Title | Regional Rules Global Trading Syst PDF eBook |
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Release | 2009 |
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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 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 |
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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".
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 and Global Regulation of International Trade
Title | Regional and Global Regulation of International Trade PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Snyder |
Publisher | Hart Publishing |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2002-07-05 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1841132187 |
The processes of legal and economic integration at a regional and global scale have created powerful legal and economic dilemmas. They challenge the paradigms of constitutionalism,including the State's monopoly of constitutionalism, the autonomy of national political communities and the traditional forms of participation and representation. The phenomena of globalisation and regional forms of governance have promoted the inter-dependence of national political communities and destroyed the artificial boundaries upon which national constitutional democracies are found and from which they derive their legitimacy. Furthermore, it is inevitable that the development of international trade and economic integration will raise claims for some form of global distributive justice to complement the wealth maximisation arising from free trade. This will come from the gradual development of global forms of political discourse and law–making, challenging State constitutionalism and requiring some of the instruments and theories of constitutionalism. The essays in this collection, written by leading scholars in international trade law, argue the pros and cons of greater regional and global regulation. They conclude that whatever the final framework for international trade, the critical decisions about institutional form and content will be decided in an emerging global political arena. They help to identify this political arena, who governs it, and according to which rules, and identify the different institutional alternatives in that global political arena.
Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System
Title | Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System PDF eBook |
Author | Rohini Acharya |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 753 |
Release | 2016-09-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107161649 |
This volume contains a collection of studies examining trade-related issues negotiated in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and how RTAs are related to the WTO's rules. While previous work has focused on subsets of RTAs, these studies are based on what is probably the largest dataset used to date, and highlight key issues that have been negotiated in all RTAs notified to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). New rules within RTAs are compared to rules agreed upon by WTO members. The extent of their divergences and the potential implications for parties to RTAs, as well as for WTO members that are not parties to RTAs, are examined. This volume makes an important contribution to the current debate on the role of the WTO in regulating international trade and how WTO rules relate to new rules being developed by RTAs.