Toward free trade in the Americas
Annotation In the past 15 years, the nations of the Western Hemisphere have staged a remarkable revolution -- in the way they trade with their neighbors. First, after decades of restrictive import policies, several countries began to liberalize their trade and investment regimes. Then, beginning a decade ago, numerous bilateral and sub-regional trade agreements were achieved, to serve as vital complements to domestic reforms and to foster trade flows among member countries. At the Second Summit of the Americas in 1998, negotiations among 34 democracies were launched to establish the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This report takes stock of the remarkable progress to date in the development of free trade in the Western Hemisphere. It examines trade flows between countries in the same regional groupings and between members of different sub-regional arrangements. The report describes the main characteristics of the trade arrangements signed between countries of the Hemisphere and explores the development of trade rules in these arrangements. Finally, the report details recent advances in the construction of the FTAA
eBook, English, ©2001
Brookings Institution Press : Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., ©2001
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1 online resource (xi, 334 pages) : illustrations
9780815798262, 0815798261
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Print version:
Foreword / César Gaviria
Introduction / José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs and Maryse Robert
part I. Trade and investment flows: hemispheric trends. Trade and investment flows in the Americas / Karsten Steinfatt and Patricio Contreras
part II. Regional trade arrangements. Customs unions / José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs [and others]
Free trade agreements / Maryse Robert
Preferential and partial scope trade agreements / Karsten Steinfatt
part III. Trade rules in the Americas. Trade in goods and agriculture / Donald R. Mackay, Maryse Robert, and Rosine M. Plank-Brumback
Standards and technical barriers to trade / Barbara R. Kotschwar
Services / Sherry M. Stephenson
Investment / Maryse Robert
Intellectual property rights / César Parga
Competition policy / José Tavaras de Araujo, Jr
Government procurement / Donald R. Mackay and Maryse Robert
Dispute settlement / Rosine M. Plank-Brumback
part IV. The road ahead: the free trade area of the Americas. The FTAA process: from Miami 1994 to Quebec 2001 / José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs
Integration and interdependence in the Americas / César Gaviria
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010