Economic Integration in the Americas (Studies in the Modern World Economy)

✍ Scribed by Joseph A. McKin

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new book brings together contributions from recognized experts in trade policy, discussing and evaluating economic integration in the Western Hemisphere, the alternative trade strategies being pursued in this area and Latin American relationships with United States and Canada. These essays provide progress reports concerning the different regional and sub-regional groupings that have developed within the hemisphere and discuss the inter-relationships of Western Hemispheric trading arrangement with the multilateral trading systems. The difficulties encountered in hemispheric trade negotiations and the implications for the countries involved are also considered. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers engaged with international trade and economic policy, as well as policy specialists in business organizations and government.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 8
Copyright......Page 9
Contents......Page 10
Figures......Page 13
Tables......Page 14
About the contributors......Page 16
Preface......Page 22
Acronyms......Page 27
Part I: Introduction......Page 30
1 Introduction......Page 32
Part II: New trade strategies in the Americas......Page 40
2 The past twenty years of trade policy: What have we learned so far and what are the lessons for Latin America?......Page 42
3 New trade strategies in the Americas......Page 56
4 The FTAA–WTO divide: The political economy of low ambition......Page 75
5 Trade liberalization as a moral imperative......Page 91
Part III: Regional and subregional agreements in the Western Hemisphere......Page 98
6 Regionalism in North America: NAFTA and the Mexican case......Page 100
7 Central America in a free trade area for the Americas......Page 119
8 MERCOSUR and the US: No finishing date......Page 125
9 The Caribbean Community: Integration among small states......Page 134
10 Trends in Latin American integration: An overview......Page 162
Part IV: Results of North American and hemispheric trade negotiations......Page 192
11 Does the FTAA have a future?......Page 194
12 Competing for the US import market: NAFTA and non-NAFTA countries......Page 205
13 Beyond FTAs: Deepening North American integration......Page 228
Part V: Interaction of regional and global trade agreements......Page 236
14 Interactions of regional and global trade agreements......Page 238
15 Interactions between regional and global trade agreements......Page 242
16 Cleaning up the spaghetti bowl......Page 256
17 Isolation, intervention, and exchange rights: Principles in trade theory......Page 262
Part VI: Afterword......Page 274
Afterword......Page 276
Index......Page 278