Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System (Hardcover)

Part I. Trade in Goods and Services: 1. Market access provisions on trade in goods in regional trade agreements Jo-Ann Crawford; 2. Preferential rules of origin in regional trade agreements Maria Donner Abreu; 3. Trade facilitation under the RTA umbrella: origins and evolution Nora Neufeld; 4. Do regional anti-dumping regimes make a difference? Jean-Daniel Rey; 5. Mapping of safeguard provisions in regional trade agreements Jo-Ann Crawford, Jo McKeagg and Julia Tolstova; 6. Cross-cutting issues in regional trade agreements: sanitary and phytosanitary measures Lee Ann Jackson and Hanna Vitikala; 7. Technical barriers to trade provisions in regional trade agreements: to what extent do they go beyond the WTO TBT Agreement? Ana Cristina Molina and Vira Khoroshavina; 8. Services rules in regional trade agreements: how diverse and/or creative are they compared to the multilateral rules? Pierre Latrille; Part II. Other Provisions: 9. Intellectual property provisions in regional trade agreements: revision and update Raymundo Valdes and Maegan McCann; 10. Mapping of dispute settlement mechanisms in regional trade agreements ? innovative or variations on a theme? Claude Chase, Alan Yanovich, Jo-Ann Crawford and Pamela Ugaz; 11. Some conclusions Rohini Acharya.