Status Of The Free Trade Area Of The Americas

Author : Mario Esteban Carranza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351753388

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South American Free Trade Area or Free Trade Area of the Americas? by Mario Esteban Carranza Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: This work examines the hemispheric diplomacy after the Summits of the America in Miami (December 1994) and Santiago (April 1998), focusing on the strengthening of the South American position in the FTAA negotiations and the Brazilian proposal for a South American Free Trade Area (SAFTA). The book also looks at the implications of the preceding analysis for regional integration theory and international relations theory. The conclusion looks beyond "open regionalism" and considers three scenarios for US-South American relations after the Santiago Summit. First reassertion of US hegemony and signing of an FTAA agreement on schedule, second, erosion of US hegemony but continuing negotiations between North and South America for a "distant" FTAA, and finally, breakdown of the FTAA negotations and emergence of SAFTA as an alternative to the FTAA.

Author : Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs,Maryse Robert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815798262

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Toward Free Trade in the Americas by Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs,Maryse Robert Pdf

A Brookings Institution Press and the Organization of American States publication In the past 15 years, the nations of the Western Hemisphere have staged a remarkable revolution—in the way they trade with their neighbors. First, after decades of restrictive import policies, several countries began to liberalize their trade and investment regimes. Then, beginning a decade ago, numerous bilateral and sub-regional trade agreements were achieved, to serve as vital complements to domestic reforms and to foster trade flows among member countries. At the Second Summit of the Americas in 1998, negotiations among 34 democracies were launched to establish the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This report takes stock of the remarkable progress to date in the development of free trade in the Western Hemisphere. It examines trade flows between countries in the same regional groupings and between members of different sub-regional arrangements. The report describes the main characteristics of the trade arrangements signed between countries of the Hemisphere and explores the development of trade rules in these arrangements. Finally, the report details recent advances in the construction of the FTAA.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Customs unions
ISBN : PURD:32754077080244

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Status of the Free Trade Area of the Americas by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade Pdf

Author : Marianne Wiesebron,Paolo Vizentini
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848136762

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Free Trade for the Americas? by Marianne Wiesebron,Paolo Vizentini Pdf

The face of international trade is continuing to change rapidly. But while much attention is focused on where, post-Cancun, any new international negotiations under the auspices of the WTO may go, there are other developments of potentially equal importance. The United States, in particular, is prioritizing new regional trade agreements. This book focuses on the most ambitious of these negotiations -- the Free Trade Area of the Americas Agreement, which is due to be completed in 2005. This US initiative aims to replicate the NAFTA Agreement (which has bound the US, Canada and Mexico into a free trade area since 1994) across all 34 countries of South and North America (bar Cuba). This huge continental market is to be built around US-defined notions of free trade and protection of foreign investment, but will exclude the free movement of labour. This volume explains the origins and process of the negotiations -- both the complicated multilateral discussions and the bilateral agreements that have already been drafted. It explains in detail: * US strategy. * The structures and procedures of the Agreement. * The possible consequences for South America, including: Mercosur; Brazil, as Latin America's largest economy; and the region's many small economies, which cannot possibly compete on a level playing field with the US behemoth. * The wider implications of the FTAA for the global trading system, in particular for China, Japan and the EU. This book -- the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the FTAA -- will be of use to trade specialists, international economists, and all those interested in the FTAA, about which very little information is readily available in the public domain.

Author : Donald S. Macdonald
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815729731

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Building a Canadian-American Free Trade Area by Donald S. Macdonald Pdf

Author : Sidney Weintraub,Alan M. Rugman,Gavin Boyd
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845420666

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Free Trade in the Americas by Sidney Weintraub,Alan M. Rugman,Gavin Boyd Pdf

This book examines the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), an ambitious venture in regional market integration which builds on the principles of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It assesses the long-term corporate and public policy measures to cope with the increased monetary, fiscal and structural interdependence that will be required if the benefits of the FTAA are to be realized. The contributors suggest that with enlightened US leadership and the cooperation of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, the FTAA could eventually match the EU in the world economy and as a multilateral leader. Initiatives to promote a culture of relational cooperation in a system of liberalized global commerce are stressed. In Latin America, there is an urgent need for such cooperation in order to enhance the region s lackluster growth rate and reduce the occurrences and severity of financial crises. The United States, Canada and Mexico will also benefit from the development of dynamic structural links with their regional neighbours. The authors highlight the importance for US policy initiatives to be complemented by constructive and harmonious corporate collaborations. This spirit of alliance capitalism will help ensure the FTAA promotes social justice as well as economic efficiency. This fully integrated volume, written by leading specialists in the field, will become an indispensable source for analysis of the prospects and role of the FTAA in the global economy. It will be warmly welcomed by informed readers such as international business experts, bankers, corporate executives, economists dealing with fiscal and monetary integration, and those interested in Latin American business.

Author : Arnold S. Miller
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1594540578

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Free Trade by Arnold S. Miller Pdf

With jobless recoveries the issue du jour, free trade has become a wedge issue of considerable importance in the developed countries. This book hones in on free trade areas and their role in this complex globalisation process. CONTENTS: Preface; Free Trade Agreements: Impact on US Trade and Implications for US Trade Policy (William H. Cooper); The US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (Dick K. Nanto); Free Trade Agreements with Singapore and Chile: Labor Issues (Mary Jane Bolle); The US-Chile Free Trade Agreement: Economic and Trade Policy Issues (J. F. Hornbeck); Agricultural Trade in a US- Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) (Remy Jurenas); A Free Trade Area of the Americas: Status of Negotiations and Major Policy Issues (J. F. Hornbeck); US -- Jordan Free Trade Agreement (Mary Jane Bolle); Index.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050336242

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Status of the Free Trade Area of the Americas by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade Pdf

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : America
ISBN : UIUC:30112047880486

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The Free Trade Area of the Americas by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade Pdf

Author : Mario Esteban Carranza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1315191873

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South American Free Trade Area Or Free Trade Area of the Americas? by Mario Esteban Carranza Pdf

"This title was first published in 2000: This work examines the hemispheric diplomacy after the Summits of the America in Miami (December 1994) and Santiago (April 1998), focusing on the strengthening of the South American position in the FTAA negotiations and the Brazilian proposal for a South American Free Trade Area (SAFTA). The book also looks at the implications of the preceding analysis for regional integration theory and international relations theory. The conclusion looks beyond "open regionalism" and considers three scenarios for US-South American relations after the Santiago Summit. First reassertion of US hegemony and signing of an FTAA agreement on schedule, second, erosion of US hegemony but continuing negotiations between North and South America for a "distant" FTAA, and finally, breakdown of the FTAA negotations and emergence of SAFTA as an alternative to the FTAA."--Provided by publisher.

Author : University of Miami. North-South Center
Publisher : New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822018855437

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Integrating the Americas by University of Miami. North-South Center Pdf

Bold new economic policies are supplanting traditional notions about the relationship between national and international markets throughout Latin America. Regional integration and neoliberal reforms have combined to overturn more traditional approaches to national development in the region. This volume captures the content of these changes and analyzes their implications for the Western Hemisphere.

Author : Ronald J. Wonnacott,Canadian-American Committee,C.D. Howe Institute,National Planning Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001683254

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The Economics of Overlapping Free Trade Areas and the Mexican Challenge by Ronald J. Wonnacott,Canadian-American Committee,C.D. Howe Institute,National Planning Association Pdf

This study examines the complex issue of trade liberalization in the Americas, and poses the questions: Where do we want to go and how do we get there? It examines the economics of a hub-and-spoke system versus an expanding FTA, and patterns of existing trade in the hemisphere.

Author : William Krist
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1421411687

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Globalization and America's Trade Agreements by William Krist Pdf

Globalization and America's Trade Agreements reviews the theoretical framework as well as provides a historic context of impact of the United States’ complex trade agreements of the past 25 years. William Krist analyzes the issues in the recent rounds of GATT/WTO negotiations and in numerous U.S. free trade agreements and discusses how economists have approached trade policy and how historical experience has affected economic theory. He assesses the effect of trade deals on the U.S. economy, the role of foreign policy in trade negotiations, how trade can affect the economies of developing countries, and how environmental and labor concerns affect trade agreements. Trade has been an essential driver of global growth. Krist shows how trade policy has contributed to that growth and outlines what must be done to ensure it can continue to promote our national objectives. This book will serve as a valuable guide for those unfamiliar with trade policy and provides a challenging critique of trade policy for those already knowledgeable in the field.

Author : Richard E. Feinberg
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0881322423

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Summitry in the Americas by Richard E. Feinberg Pdf

The 1994 Summit of the Americas, the first such gathering of hemispheric leaders in over a generation, defined a new substantive agenda and architecture for United States-Latin American relations. The summit committed participating countries to negotiate a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005 and to defending the region's democratic institutions.This book, whose author actively participated in planning the summit, traces the White House's decision to convene the summit, analyzes the administration's foreign affairs decision making, and details the other countries' diplomatic strategies for contributing to the summit agenda. Feinberg critically assesses post-summit implementation and makes specific recommendations for the second summit, planned for 1998, and for maintaining the momentum for liberalization in the Americas.

Author : Donald R. Mackay,Canadian Foundation for the Americas
Publisher : FOCAL
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : America
ISBN : 1896301797

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Challenges Confronting the Free Trade Area of the Americas by Donald R. Mackay,Canadian Foundation for the Americas Pdf