Ebook: Regionalism and the Multilateral Trading System
Author: OECD
- Tags: International trade, Trade blocs, Wirtschaftliche Integration, Welthandel, Allgemeines Übereinkommen über den Dienstleistungsverkehr, Handelsabkommen, Multilateraler Vertrag, Regionalismus, Wirtschaftliche Integration
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: OECD Publishing
- City: Paris
- Language: English
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Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are increasingly portrayed as a threat to the free global exchange of goods and services. They involve an ever-growing share of world trade. The proportion of world trade covered by such accords is expected to grow from 43% today to 55% in 2005, if all regional agreements now in discussion are actually put into place. Moreover, in the event of a log jam in the ongoing Doha round of Read more...