U.S. antidumping (AD) law is one of the core issues in all major international trade negotiations involving the United States over the next few years.Abstract: La ley antidumping (AD) de Estados Unidos (EUA) será uno de los temas centrales en todas las negociaciones de comercio internacional...

The world economy has entered dangerous and uncharted waters. The technology boom that played such a large part in the extraordinary United States economy during the 1990's has, within the last 18 months, turned into a technology bust.

This document discusses the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and their effect on the pattern of trade. Specifically, this document addresses trade liberalization, preferential tariff liberalization, and obstacles to market access liberalization. This document is based on chapter 3 of the...

In the semester following the Doha Ministerial, WTO Members were able to set up the essential elements of the Work Program decided by Ministers at Doha (November 2001), including the negotiations mandated in the declaration.

This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the V Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on August 14th and 15th, 2003. Background Causes and Reasons for the Negotiation Overall Goals of the Negotiation Features and Structure of the...

This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the Caribbean Subregional Meeting celebrated on december 15th, 2004 in Montego Bay Jamaica. Approaches for managing asymmetries in the WH Mapping out the mechanisms General trends and...

This paper will examine some political and economic forces and the possible interactions between them that will shape the current US negotiating positions in the WTO and FTAA.

What I will try to cover in this memo is first a brief summary of what I call the regional domino policy of the U.S. to provide the background to the origins of the FTAA. I will then review the main features of the transformed political economy of the global trading system in the WTO, including...

A casual observer would be forgiven for concluding that these are both the best and the worst of times for eliminating barriers to international trade and investment. On the plus side, developed countries are firmly committed to the trade liberalization agenda.

This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the V Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on August 14th and 15th, 2003. WHY THE DOHA DEVELOPMENT AGENDA? Strengthening the multilateral trading system versus unilateralism framing the RTA¿s...