This paper analyzes trade in the Caribbean community (CARICOM) using a gravity model framework. The paper seeks to shed … light on the dynamics of trade among CARICOM member countries, as well with the rest of world over 1980–99. Overall, the … results show that intra-CARICOM trade has increased, suggesting that further regional integration is desirable. At the same …

Abstract Using a new set of measures of concentration of trade, I suggest that the opening up of trade to date has been … greatly exaggerated. At least judging on the basis of trade concentration, agriculture and service sectors should barely be … the global openness league table. Since there is a strong correlation between concentration of trade and poor economic …

and intranational data to evaluate the linkages between trade in goods, trade in financial assets, specialization and … important, as both trade and financial openness have a direct and an indirect effect on cycle synchronization. (ii) A variety of … reflection of intra-industry trade, and of openness to goods and assets trade. (iv) The estimated role of trade is in line with …

’s supranationality is unthinkable elsewhere. This paper discusses how Europe overcame the specific problem of overlapping free trade …

agreements -free trade areas or customs unions- since 1990 with a handful more in varying degrees of negotiation (see Table 1 …]). Indeed, now Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong are the only World Trade Organization (WTO) members which are not signatories to … at least one preferential trade agreement (WTO [1995]). Regional integration is not new to Latin America. Economic …

they move from relatively controlled and closed economies, to more open and liberalized economies with wider regional trade … arrangements, deepening trade cooperation, and expanding duty-free areas. The effects on trade and customs administration of these …

This paper analyzes two potential trade liberalization scenarios: a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and an … create trade and increase welfare for the participants (more for the Latin American countries than for either the US or the …