Termites in the trading system : how preferential agreements undermine free trade / Jagdish Bhagwati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhagwati, Jagdish N., 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tariff preferences.

Trade blocs.

Free trade.

Commercial policy.

International trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Preferential agreements undermine free trade

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist who uniquely combines a reputation as the leading scholar of international trade with a substantial presence in public policy on the important issues of the day, shines here a critical light on Preferential Trade Agreements, revealing how the rapid spread of PTA's endangers the world trading system. Numbering by now well over 300, and rapidly increasing, these preferential trade agreements, many taking the form of Free Trade Agreements, have re-created the unhappy situation of the 1930's, when world trade was undermined by discriminatory

Contents:

Proliferating preferential trade agreements

Why has the pandemic broken out?

Why PTAs are a pox on the world trading system

What do we do now?

Appendix

Glossary.

Notes:

"A Council on Foreign Relations book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-125) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-974361-4

9786611825911

0-19-971590-4

1-281-82591-3

OCLC:

476245148