Rules of origin differ among overlapping free trade agreements, raising firm compliance costs, discouraging utilization of trade preferences, and hindering regional value chains. Using a unique dataset comparing the restrictiveness of product-specific rules of origin (PSRO) between the Regional...

Rules of origin in international trade: efforts to establish multilateral rules -- The Uruguay Round Agreement on rules of origin: the harmonization work programme of non-preferential rules of origin -- Phytosanitary measures (SPS) -- Preferential rules of origin -- The economics of rules of...

Efforts to establish multilateral rules -- The Uruguay Round Agreement on rules of origin: the harmonization work programme of non-preferential rules of origin -- Phytosanitary measures (SPS) -- Preferential rules of origin -- The economics of rules of origin -- Drafting rules of origin in...

Efforts to establish multilateral rules -- The Uruguay Round Agreement on rules of origin: the harmonization work programme of non-preferential rules of origin -- Phytosanitary measures (SPS) -- Preferential rules of origin -- The economics of rules of origin -- Drafting rules of origin in...

This article discusses the deadlock in the WTO on multilateral harmonization of non-preferential rules of origin (RoO) and reviews some of the RoO included in recent preferential trade agreements. We argue that there is a trend towards adoption of similar approaches and that this suggests that...