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09:00-09:15
Welcoming Words
Roderick
Abbott, Deputy Director-General, WTO
09:15-09:45
Session 1: RTAs, the multilateral trading
system and the doha development agenda: current trends and future
directions back to top
As
negotiations of RTAs assume an ever more prominent role on the trade
agenda of many WTO Members, keeping track of the number and scope of
these agreements is becoming an increasingly elusive task. Taking
stock of recent developments both regionally and multilaterally, in
the context of the negotiations on RTA rules of the Doha Development
Agenda, will provide an overview of the current global trading
landscape and offer hints on its possible future directions.
RTAs and
the multilateral trading system: recent developments in the global
and regional trade agendas
Clem Boonekamp, Director, Trade Policies Review Division, WTO
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09:45-10:45
Session 2: RTAs and MFN in the global
economy: divergent or convergent paths? back to top
There is an
active debate on the impact that the proliferation of RTAs may have on
the objective of multilateral trade liberalization and its underlying
principles of non-discrimination and transparency. Recent developments
in the global/regional landscape can be viewed from different prisms.
The case
for free trade and the role of RTAs
Donald MacLaren, Professor, Department of Economics, University of
Melbourne
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Competitive liberalization and the role of RTAs
Jeffrey J. Schott, Senior Fellow, Institute for International
Economics (IIE), USA
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11:00-12:00
Session 3: RTAs as a development tool: to
what extent and under which conditions? back to top
Case studies
of South-South and North-South integration will clarify the
significance of RTAs as instruments to enhance trade, foster economic
development and facilitate the integration of developing economies
into the global trading system.
Lessons
from South-South Agreements: the case of Latin America
Alberto J. Dumont, Secretary for Industry, Trade and Small and
Medium Enterprises, Argentina, former Vice-Chair of the CRTA, WTO
North-South Agreements: Integrating developing countries into the
World Trading System?
Sanoussi Bilal, Senior Programme Officer, ECDPM, The Netherlands
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12:00-13:00
Session 4: Regulatory provisions in RTAs: can
and should they be symmetrical? back to top
Depending on
its design, the trade regulatory regime enforced among parties to a
given RTA may operate in a manner which adds to or detracts from
parallel trade liberalization efforts pursued in other contexts. The
discussion in this session will focus on the impact of concurrent
trade regulatory regimes, and will explore possible paths leading to a
more harmonious global trade regime.
A legal
overview of RTAs' regulatory provisions: crossing the boundaries of
GATT Article XXIV?
James H. Mathis, Department of International Law, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Facilitating or hindering trade: the role of rules of origin in RTAs
Antoni Estevadeordal, Senior Trade Economist, Integration and
Regional Programs Department, Inter-American Development Bank, USA
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Standards,
technical regulations and SPS provisions in RTAs
Sungjoon Cho, Assistant Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law,
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
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Safeguards
in RTAs
Joost Pauwelyn, Associate Professor of Law, Duke Law School, USA
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Trade and
competition policy: anti-dumping and anti-trust policies in RTAs
Ian Wooton, Professor of Economics, University of Strathclyde, UK
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16:15-17:45
Session 5: Extending RTAs beyond goods trade:
trade in services, investment agreements and intellectual property back to top
The
characteristics and economic effects of RTAs in trade in services, of
provisions on intellectual property and of the growing number of
investment agreements being concluded both within and outside RTA
frameworks are ill known. Are interlinkages and layers adding to an
ever more complex global trading system?
Economic
integration in trade in services
Carsten Fink, Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank
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Investment
provisions in RTAs
William A. Dymond, Executive Director, Centre for Trade Policy and
Law, Carleton University, Canada
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Intellectual Property provisions in RTAs and TRIPS
David Vivas-Eugui, Programme Manager of Intellectual Property,
Technology and Services, International Center for Trade and
Sustainable Development
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17:45-18:00
Wrap-up session and Concluding Remarks
Clem Boonekamp, Director, Trade Policies Review Division, WTO
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