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Author(s): Sanoussi Bilal, Philippe de Lombaerde, Diana Tussie
ISBN(s): 9781317177692, 1317177703
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Year: 2011
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ISBN 10: 1317177703 
ISBN 13: 9781317177692
Author: Sanoussi Bilal, Philippe de Lombaerde, Diana Tussie

The slow pace of the Doha Round has boosted the proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements. Paradoxically, the more powerful actors, the US and the European Union, who at the same time have benefited the most from the multilateral system, have also been engaged in bilateral and regional negotiations in order to sign WTO-plus agreements with developing countries. Combining a clear theoretical exposition with systematic cross-regional analysis, ‘Asymmetric Trade Negotiations’ offers a coherent picture of strategic, design and political economy aspects of North-South trade negotiation processes, from African, Asian and Latin American perspectives. Skilled area specialists gather to provide negotiators and policy makers in the South with recommendations, best practices, and benchmarks and contribute to the understanding of these recent processes.

Asymmetric Trade Negotiations 1st Table of contents:

1 The Sweep of Asymmetric Trade Negotiations: Introduction and Overview
Introduction
Asymmetry is unavoidable. But its more destructive outcomes need not be
Asymmetries in processes
Participation and representation
Reciprocity vs. special and differential treatment
Agenda-setting, issue selection and selective liberalisation
Forum selection – free trade agreements as the institutionalisation of asymmetries
Addressing vulnerabilities? The pursuit of sources of leverage
Market power: size matters after all!
Intergovernmental coalitions
Alignment with networks of non-state actors
Discursive/normative power
Conclusions
References
2 The Scope for Asymmetry in the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Introduction
Changes in the nature of the GATT/WTO trading system
The scope for asymmetry under Article XXIV of the GATT
Notification
Substantially all trade
Transition periods
Other restrictive regulations of commerce (ORRC)
Scope for asymmetry for non-tariff provisions in North-South agreements
Technical barriers to trade (TBT) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures
Commercial instruments
Services and investment
Intellectual property
Government procurement
Conclusions
References
3 Asymmetric Trade Negotiations for Development: What Does the Experience from the ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements Tell Us?
A historical and contextual perspective
The EPA negotiations framework
The legal framework
The negotiations structure
The EPA agenda: diverging interests
A tense process
Main substantive outcomes
Main substantive concerns in the ongoing negotiations
Perspectives on the EPA process
References
4 Comparative Asymmetric Trade Negotiations in the Southern Cone: FTAA and EU-MERCOSUR
Introduction
A preliminary political analysis of the launching of the FTAA and the EU-MERCOSUR negotiations
MERCOSUR and its North-South agenda
The US proposal for an FTAA
The EU and the ideal of inter-regionalism
MERCOSUR responses to asymmetric negotiations
The departure line: similarities and differences between the FTAA and the EU-MERCOSUR processes
The agendas
The methodology
Involvement of non-state actors
Changes along the negotiation processes
The FTAA
EU-MERCOSUR negotiations
Some final remarks
References
5 Venezuela in Asymmetric Trade Negotiations: The Cases of Negotiations in the FTAA and with the EU
Introduction
Description of case study
Motivations of Venezuela to engage in negotiations
Political economy aspects
Strategies and alliances for asymmetric negotiations
Assessment of negotiations and of strategies
Venezuela in EU-MERCOSUR negotiations
Conclusion
References
6 Negotiating the Colombia-US FTA: A Colombian Perspective
Introduction
Motivations for Colombia’s engagement in the negotiations
General assessment of the negotiations … chronicle of a non-ratification foretold
Assessment of the negotiation of the agricultural chapter1717 This section is to an important extent based on: Garay, Barberi and Cardona (2006).
Foreseeable impacts
The negotiation of intellectual property and health-related issues
The WTO framework
The Bilateral Trade Promotion Agreements signed by the US
The Colombia-US agreement
The protection of test data
The link between the patent and the registration
Extension of the term of patents
Restrictions on the use of the INN
Patents of secondary use
Patents for trivial development of known molecules
The Bolar clause
The right of exhaustion
The report of the Washington meeting
The petition of the Liberal Party to the government
The impact of the negotiation on Public Health in Colombia
The Letter of the chairman of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means
Conclusions
References
7 Negotiating the Thailand-US Free Trade Agreement
Introduction
Motives and rationale for TUSFTA
Mapping the interests and conflicts of interests in TUSFTA
Development of FTA negotiations7 Based on the summary made available to the public on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website (http://www.mfa.go.th/tusfta/index) and Fiscal Policy Research Institute Foundation’s website (http:///www.ftamonitoring.org/data3/2006%20Jan20060117/ftaus_round6.pdf) (in Thai language).
Conclusions
8 Postscript: Asymmetric Trade Negotiations After the Turn-of-the-decade ‘Global’ Financial Crisis

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