The Theory of Preferential Trade Agreements: Historical Evolution and Current Trends

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 82-87

  Bhagwati, Jagdish ^a   Panagariya, Arvind ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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