A Critical Year for Hemispheric Free Trade
Author: Ambler H. Moss
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 54
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Author: Ambler H. Moss
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raymond J. Ahearn
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony Chapman
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 33
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1994, 34 leaders representing every country except Cuba in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) agreed to complete negotiations by the year 2005 on a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The first part of this paper briefly describes the dramatic economic reforms that have swept LAC countries over the past 10 years. For some time now, world trade has been coalescing into regional trading groups; the paper's second section illustrates this global trend by discussing the growing share of trade that is intra-regional in nature. The third part examines economic integration within the Western Hemisphere (customs unions, free trade agreements, preferential agreements, sectoral agreements). The fourth section summarizes the preparations for negotiation of a hemisphere-wide free trade agreement.
Author: Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2008-06-15
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1990s and the early years of the 21st century have witnessed the emergence and proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements (RBTAs) between developed and developing countries in the Americas. These agreements typically liberalize trade in most goods and services, and they also coordinate measures on a broad range of economic policy areas beyond trade. The first and most prominent of these agreements is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which the USA, Canada and Mexico signed in the early 1990s. In subsequent years, the USA has concluded agreements with a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors to this book evaluate the economics and politics of this new pattern of North-South integration in the Americas. The book begins by considering the developmental implications of this new pattern of integration. Such agreements provide Latin American and Caribbean countries with significantly improved access to the US market, yet purchasing such preferential access via negotiation of RBTAs agreements with the US obliges countries to adopt US-style practices in areas such as the management of inward foreign investment and intellectual property. The first half of the volume addresses these issues, focusing on the challenges derived from new patterns of foreign investment, the rise of China as an exporting power, the emergence of a new regime for investment protection, and the multiplicity of intrusive forms of economic governance embodied in regional and global trade regimes. The second half of the book focuses on both the proliferation of RBTAs, and, critically, the limits to the spread of such agreements. The authors consider the interests in integration and strategies for negotiating RBTAs from the perspective of a variety of actors, deploying a range of analytic approaches. The chapters assess the capacities of the US to fulfil ambitions for integration, the strategy of Canada to both maintain close relations with the US and counterbalance its neighbor's preponderant influence throughout the region, the response of smaller countries in Central America and the Caribbean, reactions toward integration of the larger South American countries in Mercosur, and the broader question of how developing countries form coalitions and design collective bargaining strategies to participate in international trade politics.
Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780881321203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Analyses issues involved and provides policy recommendations through study of the potential impact and critical factors concerning trade, investment, labour, the environment, and intellectual property. Also covers the impact upon and adjustments required in major industrial sectors - energy, steel, automobiles, textiles and apparel, agriculture, and the financial system.
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kevin Gallagher
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 0804751250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Free Trade and the Environment' examines the impact of international economic integration on the environment, taking as a case study the experience of Mexico, as it transformed itself from one of the most closed economies in the world to one of the mostopen.
Author: Richard E. Feinberg
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780881322422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1994 Summit of the Americas, the first such gathering of hemispheric leaders in over a generation, defined a new substantive agenda and architecture for United States-Latin American relations. The summit committed participating countries to negotiate a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005 and to defending the region's democratic institutions.This book, whose author actively participated in planning the summit, traces the White House's decision to convene the summit, analyzes the administration's foreign affairs decision making, and details the other countries' diplomatic strategies for contributing to the summit agenda. Feinberg critically assesses post-summit implementation and makes specific recommendations for the second summit, planned for 1998, and for maintaining the momentum for liberalization in the Americas.
Author: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1351162624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond the barricades surrounding recent economic meetings, a constructive agenda is being developed on trade and sustainability issues in the Americas. This book brings together a diversity of perspectives and expertise on environment and development issues from governments, civil society and businesses in the Western Hemisphere. The book reviews specific areas where trade, environment and social policies intersect in the Americas, proposing that more integrated laws and policies could strengthen hemispheric progress toward sustainable development. It identifies new means of implementing this agenda, including changes to proposed trade agreements such as the FTAA, and ways to strengthen environmental and social cooperation mechanisms in the region, laying out future directions for law and policy in the region. The volume incorporates a variety of perspectives with policy options and research results from across the Americas. Critical yet constructive, it will appeal to students and scholars interested in the Americas integration process, as well as to development professionals and NGOs on the ground.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 696
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