The effects of international trade on the planet's climate and environment are manifold and complex. This makes assessment of the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) a delicate matter. This study provides an overview of the development of sustainability chapters in FTAs and discusses their...

Are regional trade agreements (RTAs) carefully crafted projects that systematically advance their member states’ interests or do they instead generate outcomes that frustrate those interests? Works on the most prominent RTA - the European Union - have traditionally been split over this...

This paper models the trade creating and trade diverting effects of the COMESA free trade agreement (FTA) and MERCOSUR over time using several theoretically consistent gravity equations. The extensive sector-specific TradeProd panel data set from 1980 to 2006 is employed throughout. From the...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de este ensayo es analizar el derecho aplicable a los contratos en el ámbito de los países que forman el MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay), delimitando el objeto de estudio en la problemática relativa a los usos y costumbres del comercio...

The results of trade agreements impact directly in the countries’ economies and therefore in their citizens. Behind these agreements, how much effort shall governments put to reach an agreement? How many resources should they invest and spend? Why some trade negotiations take longer than...