Do Trade Agreements Stimulate International Trade Differently? Evidence from 296 Trade Agreements

Regional Trade Agreements: Effects on Trade

positive or negative effects on trade depending on their design and implementation. Analysis in this chapter confirms that gains from a preferential trade agreement cannot be taken for granted; moreover, even in agreements with positive impacts on average incomes, not all members are assured of increases. The interesting policy question then is not whether RTAs are categorically good or bad, bu...

Issues of Fairness in International Trade Agreements

In this paper, we first describe the characteristics of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that are the basis of the framework of the multilateral trading system. We then provide an overview of concepts of fairness in trade agreements. Thereafter, we offer a critique of the efficiency criterion in assessing multilateral trade agreements, taking issue with T.N. Srinivasan’s (2006) analysis and t...

C the Design of International Trade Agreements

In Section B we discussed a range of reasons why nations may share an interest in cooperating with one another in trade matters. In this section we extend the analysis to examine fundamental issues of treaty design, focusing on two main questions. First, what are the core rules that any good trade agreement must contain so as to reap the envisaged benefits from cooperation? Second, how does the...

EBLIDA: Manifesto on international trade agreements

The European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) is an independent, non-governmental and non-commercial umbrella association of national library, information, documentation and archive associations and organisations in Europe. EBLIDA concentrates on the subjects of copyright, culture, telematics, Central and Eastern Europe, matters related to the information s...

Preferential Trade Agreements