The Americas have been a key driver of regional trade agreements (RTAs) since the 1990s. This study considers the effect of these agreements on trade liberalization, and the lessons that this offers for other parts of the world, notably Asia. It finds broad geographical coverage of RTAs in the...

In this article, which the author co-wrote several years ago with Professor Kenneth Abbott at the Northwestern University School of Law, we recommended that an FTAA be formed not on the traditional regional trade agreement principles of exclusion and preferential treatment, but rather on a newer...

This paper evaluates the potential welfare gains in the Mercosur region of South America as a benefit of improvement to the trade administrations. Improvements to border procedures and processes leading to border procedures can save billions of dollars for the region, create markets for...