Breaking the Barrier between Regionalism and Multilateralism: A New Perspective on Trade Regionalism

Harvard International Law Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Cho, Sungjoon ^a  

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EID: 0042421850     PISSN: 00178063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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1. For a non-economic analysis of regionalism, see, for example, REGIONALISM AND THE UNITED NATIONS (Berhanykun Andemicael ed., 1979); REGIONALISM AND GLOBAL SECURITY (Gavin Boyd ed., 1984); AMITAV ACHARYA, REGIONALISM AND MULTILATERALISM: ESSAYS ON COOPERATIVE SECURITY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC (2000).
2. For a non-economic analysis of regionalism, see, for example, REGIONALISM AND THE UNITED NATIONS (Berhanykun Andemicael ed., 1979); REGIONALISM AND GLOBAL SECURITY (Gavin Boyd ed., 1984); AMITAV ACHARYA, REGIONALISM AND MULTILATERALISM: ESSAYS ON COOPERATIVE SECURITY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC (2000).
3. For a non-economic analysis of regionalism, see, for example, REGIONALISM AND THE UNITED NATIONS (Berhanykun Andemicael ed., 1979); REGIONALISM AND GLOBAL SECURITY (Gavin Boyd ed., 1984); AMITAV ACHARYA, REGIONALISM AND MULTILATERALISM: ESSAYS ON COOPERATIVE SECURITY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC (2000).
4. A typical definition of free trade area (FTA) is provided in GATT Article XXIV as "an association of nations with duty free treatments for imports from members." General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, October 30, 1947, art. XXIV(8)(b), 61 STAT. A-11, T.I.A.S. 1700, 55 U.N.T.S. 194 [hereinafter GATT 1947].
5. Similarly, GATT Article XXIV provides a typical definition of a customs union (CU) as "an association of nations with duty free treatments for imports from members and a common level of external tariffs for imports from non-members." Id. art. XXIV(8)(a).
6. For the purposes of this Article, RTA includes any form of region-based trading agreement having the characteristics of an FTA, CU, or similar entity.