Diversos países están preocupados por la densidad normativa que rige su comercio exterior preferencial y buscan disminuir y simplificar la diversidad de normas existentes, para lo cual, comienzan a analizar alternativas que permitan alguna convergencia entre sus acuerdos. El objetivo de este...

Many countries are concerned by the dense body of regulations governing their preferential foreign trade and are seeking to simplify the current diversity of rules. To do this they are starting to look at alternatives that allow a degree of convergence between their agreements. This paper aims...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivos examinar tanto el papel de las reglas de origen de las áreas de libre comercio, como de los criterios utilizados para la calificación del origen, y analizar las características básicas de los regímenes de origen vigentes en las Américas y la aplicación de...

Este documento comprende un análisis de la importancia creciente de la verificación de origen en los acuerdos comerciales y de los cambios que han introducido algunos países en sus acuerdos recientes para facilitar estos procesos. Asimismo, considera ciertos desafíos que deberán afrontar...

What are the main issues in Chile's trade agenda? This paper argues that the country's agenda does not lend itself to that traditional kind of policy advice usually given throughout Latin America. Protection is low and uniform, institutions that govern trade policy are strong and well protected...

Economic and political integration have been a perennial and neuralgic issue in the Caribbean agenda. This paper draws on the literature on trade, growth and regional agreements to discuss the motivation behind the Caribbean drive for integration, the results obtained so far and what is in stock...

In October 2000, the twelve countries of South America launched, a multinational, multisectoral and multidisciplinary initiative, whose main objective is to develop the region's infrastructure within a context of environmental sustainability. Supported by the Inter-American Development Bank...

This paper discusses the impacts of integration on productivity, specifically within regional agreements. The paper focuses on the economies of Brazil and Mexico and on their performance in the manufacturing sector. The authors estimate firm-level productivity and test its casual links with...

Unfulfilled expectations about economic growth in Brazil has led many observers to question the ability of the new, open trade regime to put the economy back on a path of sustainable growth. Whereas the country's growth record has been really poor, the evidence suggests that the underlying...

Manufacturing in Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) faces severe competitive stresses as it integrates into the global economy. It is not, on the whole, coping well. Though it was the first region in the developing world - in the post-war era - to liberalize on international trade and...