The recently concluded Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) will undoubtedly lead to a fundamental transformation of the world trading system as an instrument of a global economy. In Traders in a Brave New World, Ernest H. Preeg, a distinguished former U.S. diplomat and trade negotiator, presents a blow-by-blow account of the Uruguay Round, an examination of the historical context in which it took place, and an insider's assessment of the agreement's future impact on the international trading system. Preeg places the Uruguay Round in the broader context of global politics and economics, showing how changes in the world order—from the collapse of communism to dramatic economic reforms in developing countries—influenced both the topics of negotiations and their outcome. He then assesses the final GATT agreement as a case study in international negotiations and evaluates its probable effects on income and trade. Finally, Preeg looks to the short- and long-term issues confronting future trade-policy negotiators. He shows that the international trade agenda will consist of three evolving types of agreement—further multilateral commitments, regional free-trade agreements, and selective bilateral accords. Going to the heart of current debates on the "new world order," an important final chapter evaluates the political and economic relationships that will result from the international trading system.

Traders in a Brave New World: The Uruguay Round and the Future of the International Trading System

Business & Money

Preeg, Ernest H.

Economics

University of Chicago Press

In his new book, Ernest Preeg analyzes international trade and investment in the 1990s and lays out a comprehensive U.S. trade strategy for the uncertain period ahead. He examines the influence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and argues that economic globalization is beneficial to the U.S. economy in the short- to medium-term while raising important questions about national sovereignty and security over the longer term. Preeg believes regional free trade agreements will soon encompass the majority of world trade, but they can conflict with the WTO's multilateral objectives. The central challenge for U.S. trade strategy, then, is to integrate the now largely separate multilateral and regional tracks of the world trading system. The first essay assesses U.S. interests in economic globalization, the second examines recent steps toward free trade at the multilateral and regional levels, and the next three offer an in-depth critique of U.S. regional free trade objectives in the Americas, across the Pacific, and possibly with Europe. The final essay presents a multilateral/regional synthesis for going from here to free trade over the coming decade.

From Here to Free Trade: Essays in Post-Uruguay Round Trade Strategy

International

Traders and diplomats;: An analysis of the Kennedy round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Brookings Institution

"A well-integrated volume which analyzes major trade problems and sets forth concrete, reasonable proposals for dealing with them." --Foreign Affairs  North-South trade relations are deeply troubled. U.S. exports to developing countries declined by $19.2 billion for 1980-83, at the cost of some 1.1 million jobs in the U.S. export sector. Many developing countries, meanwhile, face financial crises that can only be resolved over the long run through resumed expansion of trade. In this volume, distinguished practitioners and academics identify specific policy objectives for the United States on issues that will be prominent in the proposed new round of GATT negotiations: adjustment of U.S. firms and workers to imports from developing countries, including sensitive sectors such as textile and steel; transition or "graduation" of the newly industrialized countries of East Asia and Latin America to a more reciprocal basis of access to markets; special benefits for the poorest or least developed countries; and preferential trading arrangements.

Hard Bargaining Ahead: United States Trade Policy and Developing Countries (U.S.Third World Policy Perspectives Series)

Routledge

Book by Preeg, Ernest H., Levine, Jonathan D.

Cuba And The New Caribbean Economic Order (Csis Significant Issues Series)

Levine, Jonathan D.

History

Westview Press

During the 1980s the structure of world trade and investment underwent fundamental changes. The author examines those changes and recommends a three-convergent-track trade strategy of mutually reinforcing objectives at the multilateral, regional and bilateral levels in the next five to ten years.

Trade Policy Ahead: Three Tracks and One Question (Significant Issues Series)

Center for Strategic & International Studies

The United States has been almost alone in using unilateral economic sanctions as a foreign policy instrument, despite inherent problems. This volume is the first full-length study devoted solely to unilateral sanctions, particularly as they have been used in the changed international economic realities of the 1990's. Ernest Preeg centers his investigation on five in-depth country case studies-of China , Cuba, Iran, Myanmar (formerly Burma), and Vietnam--to see whether they achieve their intended objectives and at what cost to other U.S. interests. Each case study includes an assessment of the economic impact on the target country, the related adverse consequences for U.S. commercial interests, and a detailed account of the U.S. policy process for adopting and implementing the sanctions. The author's work is part of a broader CSIS project on unilateral economic sanctions steered by a distinguished committee cochaired by four members of Congress.

Feeling Good or Doing Good with Sanctions: Unilateral Economic Sanctions and the U.S. National Interest (Csis Significant Issues Series)

Center for Strategic & Intl. Studies

This book provides a detailed analysis and strong endorsement of a multilateral free trade agreement for the manufacturing sector as a centerpiece of the WTO Doha negotiations, along the lines proposed by the United States.The author's conclusion is that such an agreement is economically sound but will require greater political will than is currently evident to succeed. Such an agreement would consolidate the proliferating network of bilateral and regional free trade agreements within a multilateral framework and reap an estimated $2 trillion per year increase in global GDP. About half of these economic gains will accrue to industrialized countries and the other half mostly to the ?newly industrialized? countries. The large gains result from the new order of trade relations which has developed in the last two decades, and which is centered on the manufacturing sector as the ?engine for growth? for the U.S. and global economies. This engine has been driven by a broadly based surge in applied new technologies and the rapid growth in manufactures trade and related foreign direct investment with embedded new technologies. The ?dynamic gains? resulting from free trade in manufactures would increase economic growth significantly for all participants.

From Here to Free Trade in Manufactures: Why and How

Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, Inc.

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Traders in a Brave New World: The Uruguay Round and the Future of the International Trading System

From Here to Free Trade: Essays in Post-Uruguay Round Trade Strategy

From Here to Free Trade: Essays in Post-Uruguay Round Trade Strategy

Traders and diplomats;: An analysis of the Kennedy round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Hard Bargaining Ahead: United States Trade Policy and Developing Countries (U.S.Third World Policy Perspectives Series)

Hard Bargaining Ahead: United States Trade Policy and Developing Countries (U.S.Third World Policy Perspectives Series)

Cuba And The New Caribbean Economic Order (Csis Significant Issues Series)

Trade Policy Ahead: Three Tracks and One Question (Significant Issues Series)

Feeling Good or Doing Good with Sanctions: Unilateral Economic Sanctions and the U.S. National Interest (Csis Significant Issues Series)

From Here to Free Trade in Manufactures: Why and How