Trade Rules in the Making: Challenges in Regional and Multilateral Negotiations
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Trade Rules in the Making: Challenges in Regional and Multilateral Negotiations
By (Author) Dr. Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza
Edited by Patrick Low
Edited by Barbara Kotschwar
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Brookings Institution
1st June 1999
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Public international law: economic and trade
382.9
Physical Properties
Paperback
562
Width 154mm, Height 228mm, Spine 30mm
748g
Description
In April 1998 negotiations were launched to create a free trade area among 34 countries in the western hemisphere. The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was designed to eliminate barriers to trade in goods and services and to remove restrictions on investment among the countries of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. 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 seeks 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 Rodriguez Mendoza tests several Latin American arrangements to see whether they comply with the WTO criteria. Other contributors discuss key components of the 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 labour and the environment. The book is designed to serve both as an analytical examination of regionalism and multilateralism and as a primer for international trade negotiators.
Reviews
"Useful to students of international trade policy or to professionals working in this area.
" K. Clausing, Reed College, Reed College
Author Bio
Miguel Rodriguez 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.
