Topics: REGIONALISM REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS (RTAS) WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO) MEGA-REGIONAL AGREEMENT MULTILATERALISM TRADE FACILITATION RULES OF ORIGIN (ROO) REGIONAL INTEGRATION PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENT (PTA) TARIFF LIBERALIZATION
Regions: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (LAC)
Co-Authors: ANTONI ESTEVADEORDAL MATTHEW SHEARER JEREMY HARRIS JOSÉ ERNESTO LÓPEZ-CÓRDOVA CHRISTIAN MARTINCUS VOLPE
This paper examines the implications of this new era of regionalism and offers recommendations on how the system of RTAs can best be leveraged to advance trade and development. Seven policy options... READ MORE
Over the past two decades, regional trade agreements (RTAs) have proliferated alongside the WTO system, involving a wide variety of agreements. In the absence of significant progress on the multila... READ MORE
This think piece argues that the traditional approaches to monitor, constrain, and regulate RTAs are antiquated, both because WTO Members are not invested in such approaches, and because RTAs are o... READ MORE
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have proliferated around the globe in the past decades. There has been an intense debate about their implications for the world trading system. By now, the evidence... READ MORE
Examination of the extent of liberalization in regional trade agreements (RTAs) in the Americas in comparison with other regions of the world, to discuss the potential future of integration in the... READ MORE
Rules of origin are a crucial market access instrument in the rapidly proliferating network of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) around the world. In this volume, Estevadeordal and Suominen reve... READ MORE