The Origin of Goods Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements [Hardcover]

This book looks at rules of origin in preferential trading agreements and their growing importance in trade negotiations. The book's message is that rules of origin can act as powerful barriers to trade and have been deliberately used as such.

Introduction: Rules of Origin in the World Trading System,Olivier Cadot, Antoni Estevadeordal, Akiko Suwa Eisenmann and Thierry Verdier
Rules of Origin: Theoretical Perspectives
1. Understanding Rules of Origin,Kala Krishna
2. The Impact of Rules of Origin on Strategic Outsourcing: an IO perspective,Matthias Thoenig and Thierry Verdier
Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements Around the World
3. Mapping and Measuring Rules of Origin Around the World,Antoni Estevadeordal and Kati Suominen
4. Rules of Origin for Services: Economic and Legal Considerations,Americo Beviglia-Zampetti and Pierre Sauv?
The Political Economy of Rules of Origin
5. Rules of Origin as Export Subsidies,Olivier Cadot, Antoni Estevadeordal and Akiko Suwa Eisenmann
6. Rules of Origin and US Trade Policy,I.M. Destler
Measuring the Impact of Rules of Origin
7. Are Different Rules of Origin Equally Costly? Estimates from NAFTA,Celine Carrere and Jaime de Melo
8. Implementing PTAs in the Southern Cone Region of Latin America: Rules of Origin,Pablo Sanguinetti and E. Bianchi
9. Preferential Trade Agreements and the Pattern of Production and Trade when Inputs are Differentiated,Joseph Francois
Rules of Origin and Development
10. Rules of Origin as Tools of Development? Some Lessons from SADC,Hennie Erasmus, Frank Flatters and Robert Kirk
11. Trade Preferences for Africa and the Impact of Rules of Origin,Paul Brenton and Takako Ikezuki

Olivier Cadot is Professor of Economics at the University of Lausanne and Dilc"