Trade and investment rule-making : the role of regional and bilateral agreements
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Trade and investment rule-making : the role of regional and bilateral agreements
United Nations University Press, c2006
- : pbk
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"Reports on a study undertaken by the UNU research and training programme CRIS (UNU-CRIS) that builds upon the previous Sampson and Woolcock research"--Foreword, p. xii
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : the interaction between levels of rule-making in international trade and investment / Stephen Woolcock
- Rule-making in agricultural trade : RTAs and the multilateral trading system / Charles Tsai
- The interaction between levels of rule-making in international trade and investment : the case of sanitary and phytosanitary measures / Grant E. Isaac
- Preferential rules of origin : models and levels of rule-making / Luis Jorge Garay and Philippe De Lombaerde
- The interaction between levels of rule-making in public procurement / Stephen Woolcock
- Assessing the interaction between levels of rule-making : trade in telecommunications services / Heidi Ullrich
- The international regulation of IPRs in a TRIPs and TRIPs-plus world / Meir Perez Pugatch
- International investment rules / Joakim Reiter
- Conclusions / Stephen Woolcock
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Regional trade agreements are playing a greater role in shaping trade and investment rules around the world. To date the study of preferential agreements has focused on their impact on tariff preferences, but as tariffs are reduced rule-making becomes more important in trade and investment. This book addresses the role of regional and bilateral agreements in rule-making; provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of regional and other preferential agreements on rule-making; and illustrates the role of regional agreements in a multi-level process of rule-making. Seven detailed case studies show that regional agreements can make a positive contribution to the evolution of predictable trade and investment rules, but much depends on the kind of rules they promote. To date regional rule-making has gone hand-in-hand with the evolution of multilateral rules, but recent developments give some pause for thought. It is important to understand more fully the interaction between the regional and other levels of rule-making, if the positive aspects are to be furthered and negative aspects contained.
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