Preferential Trade Agreements : Law, Policy, and Economics.

Examines preferential trade agreements and the various dysfunctions that place them among the priority items for negotiation by the WTO.

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Main Author: Bagwell, Kyle
Other Authors: Mavroidis, Petros C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: The Law and Economics of Contingent Protection: An Introduction to the Volume; 1 Preferential Trading Agreements: Friend or Foe?; The "Legalization" of GATT Article XXIV
  • Can Foes Become Friends?; 2 Third-Country Effects of Regional Trade Agreements; 3 Contingent Protection Rules in Regional Trade Agreements; 3.1 Commentary on "Contingent Protection Rules in Regional Trade Agreements"; 4 The Limits of PTAs: WTO Legal Restrictions on the Use of WTO-Plus Standards Regulation in PTAs.
  • 5 EU and U.S. Preferential Trade Agreements: Deepening or Widening of WTO CommitmentsStraightening the Spaghetti Bowl; 5.1 Comments on "Beyond the WTO? Coverage and Legal Inflation in EU and U.S. Preferential Trade Agreements"; 6 Labor Clauses in EU Preferential Trade Agreements
  • An Analysis of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement; 7 Do PTAs Actually Increase Parties' Services Trade?; 8 A Model Article XXIV: Are There Realistic Possibilities to Improve It?; 8.1 Comments on "A Model Article XXIV: Are There Realistic Possibilities to Improve It?"; Index.