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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

 
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  DTTC
 
The Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act: Its Impact on Prosperity, Security, and Democracy
CORPORACIÓN ANDINA DE FOMENTO (CAF) 10th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN THE AMERICAS
Organized by the Inter-American Dialogue, the Corporación Andina de Fomento and the Organization of American States  - September 7-8, 2006 - Washington, D.C.
Examination of Asymmetrical Treatment Provided to Smaller Economies under the WTO Agreements and the DR-CAFTA. prepared for the OAS/CIDA Workshop on the Treatment of Differences in Size and Levels of Development Relevant to OECS Countries in their Pursuit of Trade Negotiations.  St. Vincent & The Grenadines, March 21-22, 2005.
 
  STEPHENSON, Sherry
 
Lessons from the FTAA for APEC Economies for the Feasibility Study by the PECC of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) Dr. Sherry Stephenson,  DTTC Director, a.i.
September 2006
New Trade Strategies in the Americas
Dr. Sherry M. Stephenson - BAYLOR UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE VOLUME- Texas - May 2006.
Competitiveness and its Essential Components
Sherry Stephenson,  DTTC Director, a.i. December 4, 2006 - Miami.
Examining APEC’s Progress towards Reaching the BOGOR Goals for Services Liberalization Dr. Sherry Stephenson,  DTTC Director, a.i. September 2005
The Free Trade Area of the Americas: How Deep an Integration in the Western Hemisphere? S.Stephenson and G.C. Hufbauer. Rev. February 2004. Published in PAFTAD 29 Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order.
Perspectives on the Services-Investment Nexus.  
2003. Published in PECC Perspectives on the Services-Investment Nexus.
Perspectives on Services Regulatory Issues
2003. Published in PECC Perspectives on Services Regulatory Issues.
Regionalism in the Western Hemisphere and the FTAA  September 2003
An Asymmetric Approach to Services Liberalization: The European Union- Mercosur Case S.Stephenson and Patricio Contreras.  Paper written for the Experts Workshop "An integrated approach to the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement."  November 2001.
Evaluating Approaches to the Liberalization of Trade in Services: Insights from Regional Experience in the Americas S. Stephenson and Francisco Javier Prieto. 2001.
Non-tariff Barriers and the Telecommunications Sector, in Trade, Investment and Competition Policies in the Global Economy: The Case of the International Telecommunications Regime  
January 18-19, 2001.
The State of the FTAA Negotiations at the Turn of the Millennium  
Paper prepared for the Conference on “The United States and the Future of Free Trade in the Americas”, organized by Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, March 25, 2000.
Dealing with Public Interest in the Changing Nature of the Provision of Infrastructure Services with Emphasis on the Telecom Sector  
S.Stephenson and Soonhwa Yi.  2000.
Dealing with Public Interest in the Changing Nature of the Provision of Infrastructure Services with Emphasis on the Telecom Sector  
S.Stephenson and Soonhwa Yi.  2000.
Comparison of Existing Trade in Services Arrangements within APEC, in Impediments to Trade in Services: Measurement and Policy Implications 2000.
The Benefits of a Services-Based Economy and Electronic Commerce to Developing Countries XIII Annual Meeting of the Coalition of Service Industries, Santiago de Chile, 28-29 September 1998.
 
  ROBERT, Maryse
 
Robert, Maryse, 2007. “Trade Institutions for the Americas: An Intricate Web of Arrangements,” in Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions. Edited by Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Therien and Paul Haslam. Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner
Robert, Maryse. 2005. “Canada and the Americas: Trading Beyond the Neighbourhood,” in The Art of the State II: Thinking North America. Edited by Thomas J. Courchene, Donald. J. Savoie, and Daniel Schwanen. Montréal: Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Investment Issues and their Interface with Services
M.Robert and Pierre Sauvé, 2003. Published in PECC Perspectives on the Services-Investment Nexus.
Robert, Maryse, Sauvé, Pierre, and Karsten Steinfatt. 2002. “Negotiating Investment Rules: Possible Scenarios for a MERCOSUR-EU Agreement.” In Paolo Giordano, ed., An Integrated Approach to the EU-MERCOSUR Association. Paris: Presses de l’Institut de Sciences Politiques.
Moving Toward a Common Set of Multilateral Investment Rules: Lessons from Latin America, in Latin America: Its Future in the Global Economy, ed. by Patricia Gray Rich. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2001: 164-83.
  Former DTTC Staff
 

Examination of Asymmetrical Treatment Provided to Smaller Economies under the WTO Agreements and the DR-CAFTA. prepared for the OAS/CIDA Workshop on the Treatment of Differences in Size and Levels of Development Relevant to OECS Countries in their Pursuit of Trade Negotiations.  St. Vincent & The Grenadines, March 21-22, 2005.

CONTRERAS, Patricio
Internationalization of Financial Services in Asia-Pacific and the Western Hemisphere 2004.
Developing Regulatory Disciplines for Professional Services 2003.
An Asymmetric Approach to Services Liberalization: The European Union- Mercosur Case. 2001.

PLANK-BRUMBACK, Rosine
Multilateralism and Regionalism: The New Interface
Considerations on the Interface Between the WTO and the FTAA Negotiations and Between the FTAA and Recent Free Trade Agreements in the Western Hemisphere. UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT - Geneva

SALAZAR-XIRINACHS, José Manuel
Los retos de la competitividad y la agenda interna de El Salvador frente al libre comercio y la globalización (in Spanish). March 2005.
Should there be enforceable international labor standards?: The perspective of developing countries. February 2004.
Comments on the paper by Amb. Rubens Antonio Barbosa "Why the Group of 0 was 'Suddenly' Formed". November 2003.
Las Asimetrías en los TLCs Contemporáneos y el TLC Centroamérica-Estados Unidos (CAFTA) (in Spanish). Mayo  2003.
The Politics and Future of Hemispheric Trade. April  2003.
Las relaciones Europa con el Caribe, Centroamérica, México y Cuba (in Spanish). January 2003.
Integración Económica y Negociaciones Comerciales en América Latina y el Caribe a la vuelta del siglo (in Spanish). November 2002.
Trade, Labour Standards and Global Governance: A Perspective from the Americas  
J.M.Salazar and Jorge Mario Martínez-Piva. March  2002. Published in International Economic Governance and Non-Economic Concerns. New Challenges for the International Legal Order, Stefan Griller (ed.) 
Table.
Latin American Trade Policies in 2002 and Beyond: Diagnosis and Prognosis. January 2002.
Trade, Labor Standards and Global Governance: A Developing Country’s Perspective.   
Lecture in the Conference “International Economic Governance and Non-Economic Concerns:  Transparency, Legitimacy and International Economic Law." Research Institute for European Affairs Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration December 10-11, 2001.
The FTAA, the OAS and the New Pact in the Americas.  February 2001.
The Trade Agenda in the Context of the Inter-American System. Marzo 2000.
Trade and Development: Towards a New Consensus.   Address at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). Geneva. March 15, 1999.
Address at the International Labor Organization (ILO) Symposium on Labor Issues in the Context of Economic Integration: A Caribbean Perspective.
(Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, January 20-22, 1999.
The Trade - Labor Nexus: Developing Countries' Perspectives
Published in the Journal of  International Economic Law, (Vol.3, iss.2 Article Section 1998).
Comercio y Ambiente: Una Perspectiva Costarricense (in Spanish)1998.

TAVARES DE ARAUJO, Jose
As Normas Antidumping da ALCA e a Agenda Multilateral (en portugués). Agosto 2002.
As Novas Prioridades da Política Comercial (en portugués). Junio 2002.
A Economia Chinesa e as Normas Antidumping da OMC (en portugués). Abril 2002.
Antidumping, the Steel Industry and the FTAA.  J.Tavares y Pedro Miranda. . 2002.
Legal and Economic Interfaces between Antidumping and Competition Policy . Diciembre 2001.
Antidumping e Política de Concorrência na ALCA e no Mercosul (en portugués). Octubre 2001.
Política de Concorrência no Mercosul: Uma Agenda Mínima (en portugués). Agosto 2001.
Toward a Common Competition Policy in Mercosur . Abril 2001.
La Integración Latinoamericana en la Primera Década del Milenio. Octubre 2000. (en portugués)
Competition Policy and the EU-Mercosur Trade Negotiations . Mayo 2000.
El Futuro del Mercosur. Noviembre 1999. (en portugués)
A Política Econômica Externa dos Estados Unidos nos Anos 90 (en portugués). Octubre 1999.
International Competition Policy: The Role of Technical Assistance . Agosto 1999.
Schumpeterian Competition and its Policy Implications: the Latin American Case . Abril 1999.
A Proteção a Indústria Automobilística na Europa e no Mercosul (en portugués). Diciembre 1998.
Trade, Transparency and Competition: FTAA and CER . Septiembre 1998.
FTAA: Risks and Opportunities for Brazil . Marzo 1998. (en portugués)
Industrial Politics and Globalization (en portugués). Septiembre 1997.
The Harmonization of Competition Policies  among Mercosur Countries. J. Tavares y Luis Tineo. . Julio 1997.
Transaction Costs and Regional Trade . Mayo 1997.
The Use of Economic Indicators as Competition Policy Instruments . Octubre 1996.
Contestability and Economic Integration in the Western Hemisphere . Noviembre 1995.
 


The views presented here are the author's own and should not be attributed to the Organization of American States, its Secretariat, or any of its Member Countries.

 

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