Proposed Rules of Origin in Emerging Asia-Pacific Preferential Trade Agreements: Will PTAs Promote Trade and Development?

William James ()
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William James: Nathan Associate, Inc

No 1906, Working Papers from Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), an initiative of UNESCAP and IDRC, Canada.

Abstract: World trade is increasingly being dominated by preferential trade agreements that have taken precedence over multilateral trade negotiations. Within Asia and the Pacific an explosion of bilateral deals is taking place that seems likely to produce a tangle of hub-spoke trade blocs centered on major Asian or Pacific countries.

Keywords: Rules of Origin; Preferential Trade Agreements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2006-08
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