Session documents

 

Bilateral trade agreements (BTAs) and regional trade agreements (RTAs) have proliferated worldwide to become a prominent feature of today's trading environment. While RTAs have become increasingly powerful in liberalizing trade in goods and services, BTAs are flourishing between developed countries, and between developed and developing countries. A key policy challenge for developing countries that negotiate RTAs and BTAs is to maximize the beneficial effects of such processes for development. Another is to ensure coherence in the approach amid the bilateral, regional, interregional and multilateral processes.

•  Programme
•  Presenters
•  List of Participants

Delivered by: Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

Presentation:

•  The proliferation of RTAs and other trading agreements between developing and developed countries in today's trading environment
•  Options and recommendations for countries negotiating North-South agreements 
•  Negotiating an RTA: some key challenges & opportunties for developing countries
• Multimedia presentation, session 1
• Multimedia presentation, session 2

Related documents:

•  Multilateralism and regionalism: the new interface (2007)
•  Chapter on "the new regionalism and North South Trade Agreements" of the 2007 Trade and Development Report