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Title: COLOMBIA: TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INDIGENOUS MARCH FOR RIGHTS, AGAINST FREE-TRADE TREATY.
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Title: Further progress towards an Arms Trade Treaty.
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Title: URUGUAY-MEXICO FREE TRADE TREATY CLOSE TO IMPLEMENTATION.
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Title: US joins efforts toward a global Arms Trade Treaty UN resolution promises negotiations to begin in 2010: in a dramatic volte-face in October, the US government announced its support for the multilateral negotiation of an Arms Trade Peaty (ATT). Treaty advocates welcomed the announcement by the world's largest arms supplier. Many also expressed concern at the condition the US placed on its support.
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Title: Arms Trade Treaty negotiations begin.
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Title: REGION: FREE-TRADE TREATY BETWEEN MEXICO & NORTHERN TRIANGLE COUNTRIES GOES INTO EFFECT.
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Title: Building support for a strong arms Trade Treaty.
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The history of the world trading system and international trade agreements is characterised by shifts between bilateralism, regionalism and multilateralism. Bilateralism has recently returned, having gained momentum following the failed WTO negotiations at the 1999 Seattle Ministerial Conference. The result is that today's international trade rules are now a complex web of instruments and agreements. This volume contains case studies of selected bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs), covering a wide range of countries, regions and key issues such as intellectual property and agriculture. Authored by leading scholars, practitioners and governmental officials, each case study provides a comprehensive review of the negotiating history and result of the selected agreement. Each study can serve as an in-depth examination of a particular FTA, and the group of case studies can be used to compare and contrast the coverage of different FTAs or to examine the FTAs signed by a particular country. ... Read more

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This unique reference provides the first book-length bibliography on NAFTA. The scope of the book encompasses NAFTA from the Bush administration through the Clinton administration, up to and including 1995. It provides sources from a wide range of disciplines--business, economics, law, science, and political science--and from such diverse perspectives as labor and environmentalism. The book covers (1) serials, including journals, magazines, and newspapers; (2) books, pamphlets, government documents, and dissertations; and (3) non-book sources, including online databases, audiovisual materials, and the Internet. ... Read more

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Developing countries comprise a two-thirds majority of themembership of the World Trade Organization, with nearly thirty ofthese classed by the UN as being among the 48 least-developedcountries in the world. In order to ensure the equitable participationof these countries in the benefits of the global trading system, theGATT Uruguay Round Agreements that created the WTO accorded specialand differential treatment to developing countries,.This Guide covers these provisions of the WTO Agreements, withdetailed information on how developing countries can benefit fromspecial rules governing such areas as:+ access todeveloped country markets in all major commodities and services, + the dispute settlement process,+ trade policy review, + foreign direct investment,+ environmental and labourstandards, and+ technical assistance.The Guide also offers the reader case studies on how some developingcountry members of the WTO (Uganda, India, and Cote d'Ivoire)are making progress in working with the obligations and the benefitsprovided to them by the WTO Agreements. ... Read more

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Unimpeded world trade is still a dream. We may have virtuallyeliminated borders, but persistent discriminatory measures withinborders -- in the shapes of restrictive investment policies,inappropriate regulatory interference, and restraints on competition-- still have the power to stifle foreign entrants to domesticmarkets. Completing the World Trading Agenda proposes to confront thesetrade-distorting forces at a new round of the World Trade Organization(WTO). Drawing on many years of international trade law practice andpolicymaking, the authors present a detailed agenda designed to:+ deepen market access for all goods, services, andintellectual property+ facilitate and protect investment byforeign enterprises+ overcome disparities of national regulatoryschemes+ ensure nondiscriminatory business operation in foreignmarkets+ reinforce and support evolving international economicrealities. This timely, forward-looking book also shows how major regionaltrading arrangements have in fact achieved deeper economic integrationthan the WTO regime. Incorporating this evidence -- as well asother proposals from the academic and policy communities --Completing the World Trading Agenda crystallizes the mostimportant trends in current international trade law. ... Read more

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Thought provoking with interesting historical perspectives.Without a doubt, this book is the seminal work on the Millennium Round! ... Read more

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Free trade, indeed economic globalization generally, is under siege. The conventional arguments for protectionism have been discredited but not banished. And free trade faces strong new challenges from a variety of groups, including environmentalists and human rights activists as well as traditional lobbies who wrap their agendas in the language of justice and rights. These groups, claiming a general interest and denouncing free trade as a special interest of corporations and other capitalist forces, have organized large and vocal protests in Seattle, Prague, and elsewhere.

Based on his acclaimed Stockholm lectures and picking up where his widely influential Protectionism left off, Jagdish Bhagwati applies critical insights from revolutionary developments in commercial policy theory--many his own--to show how the pursuit of social and environmental agendas can be creatively reconciled with the pursuit of free trade. Indeed, he argues that free trade, by raising living standards, can serve these agendas far better than can a descent into trade sanctions and restrictions.

After settling the score in favor of free trade, Professor Bhagwati considers alternative ways in which it can be pursued. Chiefly, he argues in support of multilateralism and advances a withering critique of recent bilateral and regional free trade agreements (including NAFTA) as preferential arrangements that introduce growing chaos into the world trading system. He also makes a strong case for "going it alone" on the road to trade liberalization and endorses the reemergence of unilateral liberalization at points around the globe.

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A little technical but worth the plod
The book is a compilation of three lectures delivered by Professor Bhagwati at the Stockholm School of Economics. Each of these, true to Prof. Bhagwati's trademark style, is strongly in favor of free trade. In his first lecture, he takes on those economists who have broken ranks with the free traders and presents economics arguments demonstrating why free trade is better. In his second lecture, he takes on the environmentalists and do-gooders of the world and again demonstrates why there is nothing about free trade that is inherently detrimental to the environment or to labor standards across the globe. Finally in his third lecture, he talks about how the dynamics of free trade is actually playing out, frequently in the political market place and how preferential trade agreements (PTAs) which are the rage of the day are actually a bane for free today because while PTAs reduce trade barriers for the member countries, they actually raise the trade barriers for others out of the PTAs and hence instead of a global free trade regime through WTO and GATT, we have a Pandora of PTAs that is an actual mess.
The key insight which I gained from one of the lectures was the following: Every time there is a market failure, what some people would shout is that free trade is no longer the best policy and hence should be disbanded. What Bhagwati and Ramaswami showed in a historical and seminal paper in the field of international trade was that, in case there is a distortion, the solution is not to disband free trade but to embrace policies that correct the distortion and once corrected, revert back to free trade. For instance, if the distortion is domestic, then a domestic tax-cum-subsidy policy targeting it will be appropriate and free trade can then be restored as the suitable first-best trade policy.
The book is somewhat more technical than his more popular book, In Defense of Globalization but that is understandable because this is intended for a different audience and has a different purpose in mind. Venture into it only if you remember some of your economics from ECON 101 and 201 or else you are better sticking with In Defense of Globalization.

The economic message is overshadowed by his ego
This got to be the most egotistical and arrogant book ever writted. The author in about every paragraph, uses words like "I", "me" and when refering to another person and himself, he always puts his name first. Bhagwati loves to name drop, he lists people he has met as if its a popularity contest. Bhagwati's writting will confuse you and annoy you. Throught out the book he loves to advertise the papers and studies he has written, they have no relavence to the topic at hand except maybe to help him sell more books.

Not that difficult a read.
Why do so many people rate this as a difficult read?I thought it was a well written book.I learned a few things from it too.For example, it never occurred to me that free trade treaties (bilateral agreements) are not really free trade.Read that book and find out why.I did think that he was a bit biased in favor of a certain third world country a bit.However, I don't think it was intentional on his part.

EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO READ
Bhagwati is an extremely intelligent man.He has a lot of interesting information to share with us.Now, only if he could write better...this book is extremely difficult to read and and to understand.It is NOT recommended for those without excellent understanding of economic trade policy.There are many other better written books.

Great Essays - Best If You Already Have Background
Don't let this slim volume lead you to believe this is a book of light reading.The essays it contains are extremely valuable and packed tight with information, insight, and great thinking.

There are also many very valuable footnotes that can lead you to deeper reading on the subject of the current state of thinking on the very important topic of Free Trade.

Dr. Bhagwati is a stalwart of Free Trade and has the intellectual and verbal firepower to stand up for this very important concept and its role in relieving poverty around the world.He isn't a beautiful writer, but he certainly is effective and I am so glad to be able to have his writing and thinking available to me.

This book is a fine addition and should be read by those on both sides of this issue with an open mind.Dr. Bhagwati is one of those important thinkers that will benefit your own thinking even when you disagree with them because it will force you to sharpen your own thinking and force you to build better arguments.

One of the great parts of the first essay is when he takes us through the sequence of thought as arguments were put forward, successfully attacked and new models were built, attacked, and re-built until the present day.He is also very honest about the current weaknesses in present models and possible paths to pursue as a way to solve them.Just very valuable stuff. ... Read more