APEC Workshop on Best Practices in Trade Policy for Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs)/Free Trade Agreements (FTAs): Practical Lessons and Experiences for Developing Economies
APEC Workshop on Best Practices in Trade Policy for Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs)/Free Trade Agreements (FTAs): Practical Lessons and Experiences for Developing Economies
Publication Number
APEC#206-CT-04.1
Published Date
March 2006
Type of Publication
Proceedings
Publications Under
Committees, Committee on Trade and Investment(CTI)
Accessed
5382
Pages
413
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Description
(Reproduced electronically in May 2006). This Workshop was an opportunity for participants from APEC economies to exchange views with competent experts on the policy-making process for RTAs/ FTAs. This publications includes the presentation materials used in the workshop.
- Agenda
- Welcoming remarks
- WTO Rules on RTAs/FTAs
- Methodologies for RTA/FTA
- Rules of Origin in RTAs
- Legal Frameworks for North-South RTAs
- Rules of Origin: Implementing Change
- APEC Work program on RTAs/FTAs
- Models for Services Negotiation in RTA/FTA
- Services
- Services Liberalisation
- Investment
- Labour Movement & International Trade
- Labour Standards in the US & EU Preferential Trading Arrangements
- The Treatment of Agriculture in RTAs
- Lessons and Experiences of Mexico
- Viet Nam's Participation in ASEA Free Trade Area
- Free Trade and Customs Union Agreements