ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS: 4 NOVEMBER 2010, GENEVA
Workshop on New Era Preferential Trade Agreements
A one day workshop that brings together leading
experts from the fields of economics, law and political science to discuss
their research on preferential trade agreements (PTAs) was held at the
WTO on 4 November 2010.
The contributions and discussions are designed to provide intellectual
inputs to next year’s World Trade Report which will be on the subject of
preferential trade agreements.
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The programme of the workshop focused on three key areas where
understanding of PTAs needs to be improved. The first session examines
the economic and political motives behind the agreements. It examines in
particular the idea that recent agreements are driven by “global supply
chains” or production networks. Session two then discusses what is known
about the contents of these agreements. One presentation looks in
particular at services provisions in PTAs. In the third session,
academics and WTO Secretariat staff discuss the databases that are being
developed to more systematically analyze PTAs.
Programme
4 November 2010
08:30-09:00 |
Welcome and introduction |
Session I: The Economics and the Politics of PTAs
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09:00-10:00 |
21st Century Regionalism
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10:15-11:15 |
Economic determinants of PTAs
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11:15-12:15 |
Interdependence of Preferential Economic Policies across Subjects
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13:30-14:30 |
The politics of PTAs
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Session II: Content of PTAs
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14:30-15:30 |
Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements
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15:30-16:30 |
Content of PTAs: the case of services
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Session III: Databases on PTAs
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16:50-18:30 |
Introduction and technical information on available databases and indicators on PTAs
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18:30-19:00 | Close of the conference: Synergies and coherence between PTAs and the WTO in a new era of regionalism
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