02742nam 2200673 a 450 991046573680332120200520144314.097866118259110-19-971590-41-281-82591-3(CKB)2560000000293994(EBL)415816(OCoLC)476245148(SSID)ssj0000257218(PQKBManifestationID)11193142(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257218(PQKBWorkID)10246659(PQKB)11379799(StDuBDS)EDZ0000023137(MiAaPQ)EBC415816(Au-PeEL)EBL415816(CaPaEBR)ebr10254396(CaONFJC)MIL182591(EXLCZ)99256000000029399420071227d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTermites in the trading system[electronic resource] how preferential agreements undermine free trade /Jagdish BhagwatiOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (160 p.)"A Council on Foreign Relations book."0-19-533165-6 0-19-985185-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-125) and index.Proliferating preferential trade agreements -- Why has the pandemic broken out? -- Why PTAs are a pox on the world trading system -- What do we do now? -- Appendix -- Glossary.Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist who uniquely combines a reputation as the leading scholar of international trade with a substantial presence in public policy on the important issues of the day, shines here a critical light on Preferential Trade Agreements, revealing how the rapid spread of PTA's endangers the world trading system. Numbering by now well over 300, and rapidly increasing, these preferential trade agreements, many taking the form of Free Trade Agreements, have re-created the unhappy situation of the 1930's, when world trade was undermined by discriminatoryTariff preferencesTrade blocsFree tradeCommercial policyInternational tradeElectronic books.Tariff preferences.Trade blocs.Free trade.Commercial policy.International trade.382/.71Bhagwati Jagdish N.1934-120915MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465736803321Termites in the trading system1015951UNINA