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Programme
09:00-09:15
Welcoming
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Miguel
Rodríguez Mendoza, Deputy Director-General, WTO
09:15-09:45
Session
One: The Changing Landscape of the Global Trading System back to top
The
objective of this session is to introduce the concept of RTAs and to
assess its significance in today's global trading system.
New
developments in the WTO and in RTAs
- Trends
and characteristics on the evolution of RTAs
- Recent
developments and forecasts
Panelist:
Clemens
Boonekamp, Director, Trade Policies Review Division, WTO
> Download:
“Regional trade integration under transformation”, Word format,
1318KB
10:00-12:30
Session Two: RTA Market Access and
Regulatory Provisions back to top
The
objective of this session is twofold: it looks at the correlation
between market access and regulatory provisions in RTAs and to whether
the nature and depth of this relationship facilitates or hinders trade
liberalization; and it considers specific RTA regulatory regimes and
discusses whether they operate in a manner which may be considered to
be WTO-plus or -minus.
Frontiers
of trade liberalization in RTAs: the treatment of “sensitive”
products and the role of origin rules
Panelist:
Antoni
Estevadeordal, Senior Trade Economist, Integration, Trade and
Hemispheric Issues Division, Integration and Regional Programs
Department, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.
> Download:
“Traditional market access issues in RTAs: An unfinished agenda in
the Americas?”, pdf format, 460KB
Significance
of standards, technical regulations and SPS provisions in RTAs
Panelist:
Joel
P. Trachtman, Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA
> Download:
“Toward open recognition? Standardization and regional integration
under Article XXIV of GATT”, pdf format, 169KB
Contingency
provisions in RTAs
Panelist:
Dean
Spinanger, Senior Research Associate, Kiel Institute of World
Economics, Germany
> Download:
“RTAs and contingent protection: Are anti-dumping measures (ADMs)
really an issue?”, Word format, 1486KB
Economic
integration in trade in services
Panelist:
Rolf
Adlung, Counsellor, Trade in Services Division, WTO
> Download:
“The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) — Relevance for
regional co-operation and integration”, Power Point presentation 100KB
> Download:
“Regional agreements and trade in services: Policy issues”, Word format,
361KB (Paper provided by Aaditya Mattoo and Carsten Fink, Development
Research Group, World Bank)
Other
regulatory provisions in RTAs (investment, competition, trade
facilitation)
Panelist:
Ken
Heydon, Deputy Director, Trade Directorate, OECD
> Download:
“Regulatory provisions in Regional Trade Agreements: “Singapore”
issues”, Word format, 96KB
14:00-16:30
Roundtable:
What Relationship Between the Multilateral Trading System and RTAs? back to top
Panelists
will exchange views on possible synergies between regional and
multilateral approaches to trade policy-making and trade
liberalization, and on appropriate institutional and legal structures
for the management of differing trade regimes, ranging from the
multilateral to the bilateral.
Panel:
- Muchkund
Dubey, President, Council for Social Development, India
- Jeffrey
Schott, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics,
U.S.A.
- Patrick
A. Messerlin, Director, Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, Institut
d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France
- Robert
Scollay, Director, APEC Study Centre, New Zealand
- Ramón
Torrent, Director, Observatory of Globalisation, University of
Barcelona, Spain
Moderator:
Miguel Rodríguez Mendoza, Deputy Director-General, WTO
17:00-18:00
General
Debate back to top
Moderator:
Miguel Rodríguez Mendoza, Deputy Director-General, WTO
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