The Concept Design of a Twenty-First Century Preferential Trade Agreement
The Concept Design of a Twenty-First Century Preferential Trade Agreement
Trends and Future Innovations
Kathleen Claussen, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Manfred Elsig, Universität Bern, Switzerland
Rodrigo Polanco, Universität Bern, Switzerland
Manfred Elsig, Universität Bern, Switzerland
Rodrigo Polanco, Universität Bern, Switzerland
April 2025
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The Concept Design of a 21st Century Preferential Trade Agreement describes the current status and possible future evolution of trade agreements. The individual contributions provide fine-grained analyses of the various challenges trade agreements face and how these differ across countries. The book brings together leading researchers from international law and international relations to provide conceptual and empirical insights to inform the ongoing reform debates. By taking stock of scholarly advances, the book further aims at stimulating cross-fertilization in the study of trade agreements in the field of international economic law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
- Provides interdisciplinary analyses and foresights to help design future content of trade agreements
- Explores opportunities and limits for key features found in trade agreements
- Examines current issues affecting the different trade agreements
- This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: thinking about the future design of preferential trade agreements Kathleen Claussen, Manfred Elsig and Rodrigo Polanco
- 2. Preferential frontiers in services trade governance Martin Roy and Pierre Sauvé
- 3. TBT and SPS in PTAs: the recent past and the near future Sebastian Klotz and Arthur Appleton
- 4. Trade facilitation in preferential trade agreements: the edge of a New Frontier? Nora Neufeld
- 5. The future design of intellectual property provisions in preferential trade agreements: three propositions Maria Vasquez Callo-Müller, Kholofelo Kugler, Marine Roux, Yinuo Liu, and Thomas Cottier
- 6. Government Procurement in 21st Century PTAs Anirudh Shingal and Maria Anna Corvaglia
- 7. Digital trade: new design elements in preferential trade agreements Mira Burri
- 8. Recent trends and future developments with regard to Foreign investment in PTAs Federico Ortino
- 9. Subsidies and future PTAs: from market distortions to legitimate policy goals? Leopoldo Biffi, Yuliia Kucheriava and Shailja Singh
- 10. The concept design of International rules on State intervention in the economy Luca Rubini
- 11. Global value Chains: the road to resilience Selina Hauser, Israel Gutierrez and Christian Winkler
- 12. On the move? Mode 4 and the temporary movement of natural persons in preferential trade agreements Marion Panizzon and Amanda Bisong
- 13. The trade and labour Nexus: envisioning the design and implementation of future labour chapters in PTAs Gregory Felder, Kirthana Ganeson, Martin Jehli and Patrick Wagner
- 14. Taking climate change seriously in the design of trade agreements Carla Brandi, Kateryna Holzer, Jean-Frederic Morin and Harro Van Asselt
- 15. Gender equality in trade agreements: the old, the new and the future Anoush der Boghossian, Amrita Bahri and Lolita Laperle-Forget
- 16. Dispute settlement Kathleen Claussen
- 17. Regulatory convergence in preferential trade agreements: what does the future hold? Rodrigo Polanco.
