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  "title": "Regional Trade Arrangements",
  "publication": "Occasional Papers, March 15, 1992",
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  "summary": "Regional trade arrangements have recently attracted growing interest, as existing schemes are either being extended or revived and new groupings are being formed.",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- Regional trade arrangements have recently attracted growing interest, as existing schemes are either being extended or revived and new groupings are being formed.\n- The study reviews recent initiatives and the experience with regional integration in industrial and developing countries.\n- The study discusses the implications of the recent expansion of the trend for the multilateral trading system."
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      "heading": "Major themes and analysis",
      "content": "- Review of recent initiatives in regional trade arrangements.\n- Experience with regional integration in:\n  - industrial countries\n  - developing countries\n- Discussion of implications for the multilateral trading system arising from the recent expansion of regional trade arrangements."
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    {
      "heading": "Subjects and keywords",
      "content": "- Subjects: Customs unions, International trade, Tariffs, Taxes, Trade barriers, Trade liberalization, Trading arrangements\n- Keywords: Central America, common market, country, Customs unions, EFTA country, gains from trade trade creation, Global, liberalization, North America, OP, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tariffs, Trade barriers, trade creation, trade diversion, Trade liberalization, trade-diversion effect, Trading arrangements, United States-Canada FTA\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/occasional-papers/issues/2016/12/30/regional-trade-arrangements-57"
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    "Published: March 15, 1992",
    "Series: Occasional Papers",
    "Volume: 1992",
    "Pages: 59",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557752277.084",
    "Regional trade arrangements have recently attracted growing interest, as existing schemes are either being extended or revived and new groupings are being formed.",
    "The study reviews recent initiatives and the experience with regional integration in industrial and developing countries.",
    "The study discusses the implications of the recent expansion of the trend for the multilateral trading system.",
    "Review of recent initiatives in regional trade arrangements.",
    "Experience with regional integration in:",
    "Discussion of implications for the multilateral trading system arising from the recent expansion of regional trade arrangements.",
    "Subjects: Customs unions, International trade, Tariffs, Taxes, Trade barriers, Trade liberalization, Trading arrangements",
    "Keywords: Central America, common market, country, Customs unions, EFTA country, gains from trade trade creation, Global, liberalization, North America, OP, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tariffs, Trade barriers, trade creation, trade diversion, Trade liberalization, trade-diversion effect, Trading arrangements, United States-Canada FTA"
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