The World Trade Organization's (WTO) Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) is charged with monitoring … published by the WTO. Using variation in the notification status of an RTA we are able to determine whether oversight of …

, countervailing, and global safeguard measures (so-called ‘trade remedies’) should be of increased concern to the Members of the World …

way-stations toward the Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). They could yield new, regionally acceptable …

domestic products (GDPs) account for 36 percent of world GDP and whose mutual trade accounts for approximately 24 percent of … world trade. As for most proposed free trade agreements (FTAs), trade economists have provided ex ante computable general …. With China now having formed 12 FTAs and negotiating five new ones (including a sixteen member Asia-Pacific FTA), the …

countries in that trade and investment agreement to explore alternative ways to sustain economic integration in the Asia … States to five other Asia-Pacific economies, all of which have expressed interest in the TPP in the past, would yield global … Asia-Pacific agreements would reduce US exports to the region as countries shift their trade to competitors of the United …

economic integration in the Asia Pacific. In late 2011 it remains unclear whether the TPP will turn out to be a stepping stone …

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, now in negotiation among nine Asia-Pacific countries, could yield annual … Asia-Pacific with potential gains of $1.9 trillion. The TPP's expected template promises to be unusually productive because … and other key regional partners as the TPP evolves toward wider agreements. The importance of Asia-Pacific integration …