This book assesses the impact and design of optimal strategies to implement existing agreements. It deals with issues such as removing the remaining barriers to trade, improving the institutional, regional, and global trade architecture, and promoting convergence and accumulation among the...

Rules of origin are a crucial market access instrument in the rapidly proliferating network of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) around the world. In this volume, Estevadeordal and Suominen reveal the protectionist impulses behind rules of origin, examine their impacts on international trade...

Diversos países están preocupados por la densidad normativa que rige su comercio exterior preferencial y buscan disminuir y simplificar la diversidad de normas existentes, para lo cual, comienzan a analizar alternativas que permitan alguna convergencia entre sus acuerdos. El objetivo de este...

This document contains country and agreement profiles. Country Profiles in the following pages present an overview of the performance and structure of international trade for each country as well as its multilateral and preferential trade policies. The Agreement Profiles in the following pages...

Datos preliminares del BID sobre comercio exterior en el 2004 indican que las exportaciones latinoamericanas alcanzarán la tasa de crecimiento más alta de las últimas dos décadas al superar los US$ 445.000 millones, lo que equivale a un aumento de 23 por ciento en el año.

This document inaugurates a series of annual reports that will periodically monitor the state of the region's integration in the global economy. These reports will build on an extensive body of quantitative information made available to the public through INTradeBID, a comprehensive information...

This book assesses the impact and design of optimal strategies to implement existing agreements. It deals with issues such as removing the remaining barriers to trade, improving the institutional, regional, and global trade architecture, and promoting convergence and accumulation among the...

Datos preliminares del BID sobre comercio exterior en el 2004 indican que las exportaciones latinoamericanas alcanzarán la tasa de crecimiento más alta de las últimas dos décadas al superar los US$ 445.000 millones, lo que equivale a un aumento de 23 por ciento en el año.

This paper maps out Rules of Origin (RoO) in regional trade agreements (RTAs) around the world, and observes that the restrictiveness and complexity of RoO are driven by factors specific to each RTA, including economy size and level of development.

The paper presents some cautionary arguments with respect to the relationship between rules of origin and development, and proposes an alternative mechanism, extended cumulation, by which the problems generated by burdensome rules of origin might be alleviated without jeopardizing the...