are necessary to prevent trade deflection --are attracting increasing attention. At the same time, preference erosion for … show that the current system of rules of origin (RoO) in place for EU and US preferential trade agreements (including the … prevent trade deflection implying capture by special interest groups. The paper concludes by outlining alternative paths to …

All preferential trading agreements (PTAs) short of a customs union use Rules of Origin (RoO) to prevent trade … the case of NAFTA, it is estimated that up to 40% of Mexico’s preferential access to the US market in 2000 (estimated at 5 …

very detailed Mexican data for 1994-2004, a period of liberalization in US trade policy vis a vis Mexico, mandated by the … North American Free Trade Agreement. Our approach is novel in that we focus on quality, proxied by domestic price premium …

The paper estimates the effect of NAFTA’s rules of origin (ROO) on Mexican access to the US market treating explicitly … the endogenous determination of ROOs. The first equation determines Mexico’s NAFTA (preferential) exports to the US as a …

The last decade has witnessed an explosion in the number of regional trade agreements (RTAs). There seems to be a … RTA then the traditional gains from trade. This paper examines several possible benefits that RTAs may confer on their … examining NAFTA and the Europe Agreements viewed in this light. …

that, at least in the case of NAFTA, preferential market access was quite small, leading us to speculate that these …

constructed for rules of origins under NAFTA and under the single list applying to PANEURO, the new regime applying to all EU … preferential trade agreements. The R-index highlights how identical PSRO have different impacts across countries, and how the …

> the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA). First, is there evidence from the past that … to be growth in trade with other regions, and in the share of GDP traded extra-regionally. Would enlargement of NAFTA and … suggests the direct and indirect effects of regional integration agreements (RIAs) on trade and investment have been income …

would incur unnecessary costs. Using EU trade with its GSP and ACP partners, the paper estimates how the utilization of …