Bilateralism and Regionalism: Re-establishing the Primacy of Multilateralism, a Latin American and Caribbean Perspective

ISBN-10
9211215730
ISBN-13
9789211215731
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
63
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
United Nations Publications
Authors
Mikio Kuwayama, José Elías Durán Lima, Verónica Silva

Description

This paper examines the web of over 40 trade agreements that now exist in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. These agreements and their negotiation processes have generated centripetal and centrifugal forces that tend to unify and divide the regional integration process. While these agreements emerge as an opportunity for signatory countries, they also generate concerns in relation to such aspects as their consistency with multilateral commitments and the broadening and deepening of trade rules and disciplines beyond those being assumed in WTO.

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