Trade rules in the making : challenges in regional and multilaterial negotiations / Miguel Rodríguez Mendoza, Patrick Low, Barbara Kotschwar, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodríguez Mendoza, Miguel.

Low, Patrick, 1949-

Kotschwar, Barbara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free trade--America.

Free trade.

Regionalism.

America.

America--Economic integration.

Regionalism--America.

Physical Description:

xiii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Organization of American States : Brookings Institution Press, [1999]

Summary:

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 address themes, including the evolution of regional arrangements in the Western Hemisphere and the relationship between regional trade arrangements and the multilateral trading system

Contents:

Trade Rules in the Making: An Overview / Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza, Patrick Low, Barbara Kotschwar 1

Part 1 Regionalism and Multilateral Rules

1. Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Deeper Integration: Changing Paradigms for Developing Countries / Robert Z. Lawrence 23

2. Regionalism and WTO Rules: Problems in the Fine Art of Discriminating Fairly / Robert E. Hudec, James D. Southwick 47

3. Dealing with Latin America's New Regionalism / Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza 81

Part 2 Preferential Trade and Regional Agreements

4. Developing Countries and Trade Preferences / Bonapas Francis Onguglo 109

5. Small Countries and the Free Trade Area of the Americas / Barbara Kotschwar 134

6. Preferential and Nonpreferential Trade Flows in World Trade / Jean-Marie Grether, Marcelo Olarreaga 159

7. Regional Trade Arrangements: Lessons from Past Experiences / Roberto Bouzas 180

Part 3 Enhancing Trade Rules

8. Multilateral Approaches to Market Access Negotiations / Sam Laird 205

9. Multilateral and Regional Liberalization of Trade in Services / Francisco Javier Prieto, Sherry M. Stephenson 235

10. Rules of Origin in Free Trade Agreements in the Americas / Luis Jorge Garay S., Rafael Cornejo 261

11. Standards and Technical Barriers to Trade in the Free Trade Area of the Americas / Sherry M. Stephenson 280

12. Import-Relief Laws: The Role of Safeguards / Murray G. Smith 302

13. How Long Can You Tread Water? The Anti-Economics of Trade Remedy Law / Brian R. Russell 322

14. Antidumping Policy as a System of Law / Gary N. Horlick, Steven A. Sugarman 341

15. The GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement System and the Negotiations for a Free Trade Area of the Americas / Rosine M. Plank-Brumback 365

Part 4 The Newest Trade Policy Issues

16. Toward an Investment Agreement in the Americas: Building on the Existing Consensus / Maryse Robert, Theresa Wetter 389

17. Approaches to Competition Policy / Edward M. Graham 417

18. Competition Policy and Regional Trade Agreements / Jose Tavares de Araujo, Jr., Luis Tineo 444

19. Opening Government Procurement Markets / Simeon A. Sahaydachny, Don Wallace, Jr. 462

20. Labor Rights / Craig VanGrasstek 487

21. Trade and the Environment / Gary P. Sampson 511.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815756798

OCLC:

41039744