## Regional Trade Arrangements

_Occasional Papers, March 15, 1992_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: March 15, 1992
- Series: Occasional Papers
- Volume: 1992
- Pages: 59
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557752277.084

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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.
- 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.

### Major themes and analysis
- Review of recent initiatives in regional trade arrangements.
- Experience with regional integration in:
  - industrial countries
  - developing countries
- Discussion of implications for the multilateral trading system arising from the recent expansion of regional trade arrangements.

### Subjects and keywords
- 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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