A Review of the SPARTECA Trade Agreement
A Review of the SPARTECA Trade Agreement

Author: Roman Grynberg

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13:

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Number 95/4 in the Economics Division Working Papers South Pacific. This paper examines the effect of the SPARTECA (South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Co-operation Agreement) treaty on trade between Forum Island Countries (FICs) and Australia and New Zealand, and attempts to determine whether or not the treaty has achieved its stated objectives. Includes a list of recent publications by the Economics Division, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University. Roman Grynberg is senior lecturer in the economics department at the University of the South Pacific, Suva. Matthew Powell is statistical advisor to the Ghanaian Statistical Office, Ghana.

Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements
Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements

Author: Aaditya Mattoo

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13: 1464815542

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Deep trade agreements (DTAs) cover not just trade but additional policy areas, such as international flows of investment and labor and the protection of intellectual property rights and the environment. Their goal is integration beyond trade or deep integration. These agreements matter for economic development. Their rules influence how countries (and hence, the people and firms that live and operate within them) transact, invest, work, and ultimately, develop. Trade and investment regimes determine the extent of economic integration, competition rules affect economic efficiency, intellectual property rights matter for innovation, and environmental and labor rules contribute to environmental and social outcomes. This Handbook provides the tools and data needed to analyze these new dimensions of integration and to assess the content and consequences of DTAs. The Handbook and the accompanying database are the result of collaboration between experts in different policy areas from academia and other international organizations, including the International Trade Centre (ITC), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and World Trade Organization (WTO).

Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System
Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System

Author: Rohini Acharya

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09-22

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 1107161649

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This volume contains a collection of studies examining trade-related issues negotiated in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and how RTAs are related to the WTO's rules. While previous work has focused on subsets of RTAs, these studies are based on what is probably the largest dataset used to date, and highlight key issues that have been negotiated in all RTAs notified to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). New rules within RTAs are compared to rules agreed upon by WTO members. The extent of their divergences and the potential implications for parties to RTAs, as well as for WTO members that are not parties to RTAs, are examined. This volume makes an important contribution to the current debate on the role of the WTO in regulating international trade and how WTO rules relate to new rules being developed by RTAs.

Vanishing Borders
Vanishing Borders

Author: Lee Boon-Thong

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0429751834

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First published in 1998, the contributors to this book deal with the issue of vanishing borders from various perspectives, some emphasising the economic, others the political or social impacts of global interdependence and integration. Considering the enormous changes which have taken place including the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and increasing Globalisation, the chapters within present a fairly holistic and exciting discussion of the new world order of the 21st century.

Asian Free Trade Agreements and WTO Compatibility
Asian Free Trade Agreements and WTO Compatibility

Author: Shintaro Hamanaka

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9814460419

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This book investigates the appropriate relationship between regionalism and multilateralism, with a special reference to recent FTAs in Asia. It is undeniable that past trade multilateralism-regionalism debates centered on the trade-in-goods aspect.