Assessing Preferential Trading Agreements using the Sussex Framework
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Introduction: Over the past fifteen years, there has been a dramatic rise in the number and range of regional or preferential trade agreements (PTAs). 1 There is evidence to suggest that market driven regional trading blocs are emerging in the European neighbourhood, the Americas and East Asia. The US is actively pursuing FTA in the Americas and East and South-East Asia. The European Union (EU) is currently in negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with a number of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP), and is exploring the possibility of a FTA with India, is deepening arrangements with its “neighbours”, as well as signing agreements in South America.
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