Trade Rules in the Making: Challenges in Regional and Multilateral Negotiations / Edition 1

by Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza, Patrick Low, Barbara Kotschwar

Overview

"In April 1998 negotiations were launched to create a free trade area among thirty-four countries in the Western Hemisphere. The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) will eliminate barriers to trade in goods and services and will remove restrictions on investment among the countries of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. At the same time, negotiators in the World Trade Organization (WTO) are preparing to begin talks on agriculture and services, with the possibility of a new round of WTO negotiations. Trade policymakers are confronted with a wide range of complex issues and various forums for trade liberalization. Modern trade negotiations no longer focus only on barriers to trade in goods, but include a wide array of issues. This volume aims to clarify these issues. Contributors first address themes, including the evolution of regional arrangements in the Western Hemisphere and the relationship between regional trade arrangements and the multilateral trading system. Robert Hudec provides an in-depth analysis of the provisions and future implications of Article XXIV, the WTO article that regulates regional arrangements; Robert Lawrence examines regional arrangements and their relationship to the multilateral trading system; and Miguel Rodríguez Mendoza tests several Latin American arrangements to see whether they comply with the WTO criteria. Other contributors discuss key components of the current trade policy agenda, including market access approaches, trade in services, investment, competition policy, intellectual property rights, trade remedy laws, and dispute settlement. Also examined are smaller economies in trade negotiations, and labor and the environment. The book serves both as an analytical examination of regionalism and multilateralism and a primer for international trade negotiators. Copublished with the Organization of American States

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815756798
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	562
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 8.99(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

"Miguel Rodríguez Mendoza is a visiting scholar at Georgetown University. Patrick Low is director of research at the World Trade Organization. Barbara Kotschwar is senior trade specialist at the Organization of American States."

Table of Contents

	Trade Rules in the Making: An Overview	1
Part 1	Regionalism and Multilateral Rules
1.	Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Deeper Integration: Changing Paradigms for Developing Countries	23
2.	Regionalism and WTO Rules: Problems in the Fine Art of Discriminating Fairly	47
3.	Dealing with Latin America's New Regionalism	81
Part 2	Preferential Trade and Regional Agreements
4.	Developing Countries and Trade Preferences	109
5.	Small Countries and the Free Trade Area of the Americas	134
6.	Preferential and Nonpreferential Trade Flows in World Trade	159
7.	Regional Trade Arrangements: Lessons from Past Experiences	180
Part 3	Enhancing Trade Rules
8.	Multilateral Approaches to Market Access Negotiations	205
9.	Multilateral and Regional Liberalization of Trade in Services	235
10.	Rules of Origin in Free Trade Agreements in the Americas	261
11.	Standards and Technical Barriers to Trade in the Free Trade Area of the Americas	280
12.	Import-Relief Laws: The Role of Safeguards	302
13.	How Long Can You Tread Water? The Anti-Economics of Trade Remedy Law	322
14.	Antidumping Policy as a System of Law	341
15.	The GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement System and the Negotiations for a Free Trade Area of the Americas	365
Part 4	The Newest Trade Policy Issues
16.	Toward an Investment Agreement in the Americas: Building on the Existing Consensus	389
17.	Approaches to Competition Policy	417
18.	Competition Policy and Regional Trade Agreements	444
19.	Opening Government Procurement Markets	462
20.	Labor Rights	487
21.	Trade and the Environment	511

Editorial Reviews

"Useful to students of international trade policy or to professionals working in this area.
" —K. Clausing, Reed College, Reed College

From the Publisher

From a May 1998 conference in Washington, DC sponsored by the Organization of American States, Georgetown University, and the World Trade Organization, 21 studies clarify issues to make it easier for smaller countries in the western hemisphere to deregulate and privatize their economy. Regionalism and multilateral rules, preferential trade and regional agreements, enhancing trade rules, and the newest trade policy issues are the themes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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