Negotiating a Preferential Trading Agreement: Issues, Constraints and Practical Options | Date: 28 April 2011, 08:32
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Negotiating a Preferential Trading Agreement: Issues, Constraints and Practical Options
By Sisira Jayasuriya, Donald Maclaren, Gary Bryan Magee
* Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
* Number Of Pages: 265
* Publication Date: 2009-07
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1847204813
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781847204813
Product Description:
`International trade - which is just another name for international business - involves a tightly woven bundle of cross-border "movements". Firms that sell internationally need to move goods, services, investment, skilled personal and intellectual property across international boundaries. This reality means that today's FTAs are about a great deal more than tariffs. This book, which focuses on the proposed China-Australia FTA, provides a wondrous overview of what a modern bilateral trade agreement has to address. Its 12 chapters, written mostly by world-renowned experts, are succinct, up-to-date and highly informative. I recommend it to anyone interested in the new wave of FTAs in Asia and beyond.'
- Richard E. Baldwin, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
`Are Preferential Trading Agreements building blocks or stumbling blocks? Most economists are skeptical of their benefits, but politicians and bureaucrats evidently like them. This timely and rich contribution to the debate, by an eminent group of economists and lawyers, assesses the issues with reference to the Australia-China negotiations. Importantly, if we are in a second-best world, the authors show clearly how to at least minimise the negative impacts of PTAs. A must-read for policy makers, practitioners, business people and academics.'
- Hal Hill, Australian National University
Presenting a blend of economics and law, this book provides unique insights as well as practical guidance for negotiators considering major issues on the agendas of bilateral and regional preferential trading agreements (PTAs).
PTAs are currently proliferating. However, the existing economics literature provides little guidance for trade negotiators and analysts grappling with complex technical problems when negotiating PTAs. The authors use the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement as an illustrative case study to provide concrete insights into the political economy roots of disagreements and conflicts, and discuss the pros and cons of alternative formulations and approaches.
This informative and insightful book would appeal to academic analysts, particularly those interested in the economic and legal aspects of international trade, and to those involved in negotiating international trade agreements. It would also be of great interest to trade negotiators and trade policy makers.
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