This week’s topics
Preferential and Regional Trade Agreements
- GATT Article XXIV and the Enabling Clause
- Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) versus Customs Unions
- Trade creation versus trade diversion dynamics
- Rules of origin and regulatory divergence
- Trade Under Trump: NAFTA, TPP, and the Future of US Trade Agreements
- Rules of origin recorded webinar
What you will be able to do
- 1.3 Critically evaluate types and rationales for preferential agreements.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically evaluate types and rationales for preferential agreements.
Study materials
Videos
- Trade Under Trump: NAFTA, TPP, and the Future of US Trade Agreements · YouTube · Columbia Business School · 11 min · for registered students
- Rules of origin recorded webinar · YouTube · HMRC · 20 min · for registered students
- Regional Trade Agreements and the Trading System · YouTube · World Trade Organization · 13 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Understanding the WTO, ch. 4.1: Regionalism – friends or rivals? · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 63–64 · for registered students
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (text) · PDF · Wto, legislation · for registered students
- International Business, ch. 5: Global and Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 212–263 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
