Article
Overcoming the Geneva Impasse: How Regional Trade Agreements Can Help Global Trade
OMFIF Bulletin
(2015)
Abstract
The World Trade Organisaton’s rules have permitted regional trade agreements since 1947. Over the years its membership has made only half-hearted efforts to tighten these rules. Without ignoring some well-known drawbacks which attend regional trade agreements, we need to understand the reasons for this hesitancy: regional agreements can help global trade.
Keywords
- WTO,
- FTA,
- RTA,
- tariffs,
- global trade
Disciplines
Publication Date
April, 2015
Publisher Statement
Link to the publisher's website: http://www.omfif.org/analysis/the-bulletin/
Citation Information
Chin Leng Lim. "Overcoming the Geneva Impasse: How Regional Trade Agreements Can Help Global Trade" OMFIF Bulletin Vol. 6 Iss. 4 (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/chin_lim/26/