Subject: Economics and Finance Book Title: The Origin of Goods
The Origin of Goods
Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements
Cadot, Olivier
(Editor), University of Lausanne and CEPR
Estevadeordal, Antoni
(Editor), Inter-American Development Bank
Suwa-Eisenmann, Akiko
(Editor), DELTA/INRA
Verdier, Thierry
(Editor), DELTA and CEPR
Print publication date: 2006
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929048-2
doi:10.1093/0199290482.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929048-2
doi:10.1093/0199290482.001.0001
Abstract:
Rules of Origin (RoO) are among the most important instruments in the negotiation and functioning of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs), designed to determine the eligibility of goods for preferential treatment among RTA members. Ostensibly meant to prevent the trans-shipment of imported products across RTA borders after only superficial assembly, they may act as complex and opaque trade barriers in practice. This book suggests that RoO do this with intent rather than accidentally. In other words, RoO are truly trade policy instruments. The book’s overall message for the policy community is that RoO are a potentially powerful and new barrier to trade. Their design should hold centre-stage in trade negotiations rather than being relegated to closed-door technical meetings.
Keywords: Rules of Origin, regional trade agreements, preferential trade agreements, trade, World Trade Organization, tariffs, GATT
Keywords: Rules of Origin, regional trade agreements, preferential trade agreements, trade, World Trade Organization, tariffs, GATT
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Understanding Rules of Origin
2. The impact of Rules of Origin on strategic outsourcing: an IO perspective
3. Mapping and measuring Rules of Origin around the world
4. Rules of Origin for services: economic and legal considerations
5. Rules of Origin as export subsidies
6. Rules of Origin and US trade policy
7. Are different Rules of Origin equally costly? Estimates from NAFTA
8. Implementing PTAs in the Southern Cone region of Latin America: Rules of Origin
9. Preferential trade arrangements production, and trade with differentiated intermediates
10. Rules of Origin as tools of development? Some lessons from SADC
11. Trade preferences for Africa and the impact of Rules of Origin
Index
doi:10.1093/0199290482.001.0001
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