Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime; Portugal-Pérez, Alberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
), the natural outlet for these pressures. Based on the experience of the EU and US experience with RoO, this paper argues … that, should these FTAs follow in the footsteps of the EU and the US and adopt similar RoO, trading partners in the region … would incur unnecessary costs. Using EU trade with its GSP and ACP partners, the paper estimates how the utilization of …