This Working Paper considers the significance of government procurement chapters in regional trade agreements (RTAs …), both in their own right and vis-à-vis the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA). The paper finds, inter alia, that …: (i) a strong complementarity exists between government procurement trade commitments and general goods and services trade …

The World Trade Organisation Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) has created the most comprehensive plurilateral … system for procurement-related trade liberalisation. However, there has been a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs …) regulating public procurement liberalisation, including between GPA parties, which seek to bypass or go beyond the GPA on a …