Tag Archives: mega-regionals

Coming Apart: WTO fiasco highlights urgency for the U.S. to lead the global trading system

India’s torpedoing last week the WTO’s trade facilitation agreement, struck at the last minute between the United States and India in the December 2013 WTO Ministerial in Bali, is a death blow to the world body and adds to growing … Continue reading

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Five Coming Geo-Commercial Game Changers

From Ideas Lab, 27 December 2013: The discord in Bali only highlighted the role of regional trade agreements as the center of gravity in world trade. There are two ways to look at the WTO’s agreement in Bali on trade … Continue reading

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RTA Exchange Announced

I am glad to share the announcement of a new global initiative that I conceptualized in the context of the ICTSD-World Economic Forum E15 initaitive. The press release follows, and paper is attached. Comments welcome! For immediate release, 4 December … Continue reading

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The Surprise End Game in Global Trade

From VoxEU, 20 December 2012 http://www.voxeu.org/article/surprise-end-game-global-trade Free trade agreements are now the centre of gravity in global commerce. This column says they are also the likeliest pathway to multilateral trade liberalisation. With the US negotiating two mega deals – the … Continue reading

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