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Trade and Integration

The Trade Section of the DTT supports the efforts of Member States to promote economic diversification and integration, trade liberalization, and market access that can lead, through expanded market and investment opportunities, to enhanced economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction.

Publications

Books

Articles

Speeches

Studies Series

The Trade Section has published a number of books on trends and developments in multilateral and regional trade and on specific trade disciplines. In addition to in-house publications, these include several books co-published with organizations such as the Brookings Institution and the Andean Development Corporation (CAF)

	Toward Free Trade in the Americas José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs and Maryse Robert, Editors, ©GS/OAS 2002 Table of Contents Chapter 14: The FTAA Process: From Miami 1994 to Quebec 2001 Chapter 15: Integration and Interdependence in the Americas Editors: Brookings Institution Press Washington, D.C. Co published with the General Secretariat of the OAS. This book takes stock of the remarkable progress to date in advancing free trade in the Americas. It examines trade flows within subregional groups and between members of these different arrangements. Contributors describe the main characteristics of the trade arrangements signed between countries of the hemisphere and explore the development of trade rules in these arrangements. Finally, the book details recent advances in the construction of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and concludes with a discussion of the non-economic dimension of interdependence in the hemisphere.
	This book is available through the Brookings Institution

	Services Trade in the Western Hemisphere: Liberalization, Integration, and Reform Sherry M. Stephenson, Editor, ©GS/OAS 2000 Table of Contents Overview Co-published by the General Secretariat of the OAS and the Brookings Institution. This timely book is the first to review and analyze trade agreements covering the services industries in the Western Hemisphere and their relationship to the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
	This book is available through the Brookings Institution

	Comercio y Ambiente: Temas para Avanzar el Diálogo Mónica Araya, Editor, ©GS/OAS 2000 (in Spanish)

	Trade Rules in the Making: Challenges in Regional and Multilateral Negotiations Miguel Rodriguez, Patrick Low and Barbara Kotschwar, Editors, ©GS/OAS 1999 Table of Contents Overview In this publication, contributors address themes such as the evolution of regional arrangements in the Western Hemisphere and the relationship between regional trade arrangements and the multilateral trading system
	This book is available through the Brookings Institution

	The Andean Community and the United States: Trade and Investment Relations in the 1990s Miguel Rodriguez, Patricia Correa and Barbara Kotschwar, Editors, ©GS/OAS 1998 This publication includes the 15 papers presented at the Conference between the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), the Inter-American Dialogue and the Organization of American States, held on September 3 & 4, 1997. It provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the economic relations between the United States and the countries of the Andean Community: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
The following publications are out of print and are only available in HTML format.
Trade and Integration Arrangements in the Americas: An Analytical Compendium This compendium, prepared in 1995, covers broad issues --such as type, scope, and objectives-- of sixteen trade and integration arrangements in the Americas.
Toward Free Trade in the Americas Originally prepared by the Trade Section for the FTAA Trade Ministerial in June 1995, this narrative is an overview and analysis of the evolution of trading arrangements in the Western Hemisphere.