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200 10$aTermites in the trading system$b[electronic resource] $ehow preferential agreements undermine free trade /$fJagdish Bhagwati
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2008
215   $a1 online resource (160 p.)
300   $a"A Council on Foreign Relations book."
311   $a0-19-533165-6 
311   $a0-19-985185-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [123]-125) and index.
327   $aProliferating 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.
330   $aJagdish 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 discriminatory
606   $aTariff preferences
606   $aTrade blocs
606   $aFree trade
606   $aCommercial policy
606   $aInternational trade
615  0$aTariff preferences.
615  0$aTrade blocs.
615  0$aFree trade.
615  0$aCommercial policy.
615  0$aInternational trade.
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700   $aBhagwati$b Jagdish N.$f1934-$0120915
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