"... conference held on 10-12 September 2007 at the WTO in Geneva"--P. [4] of cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part I. Background to Regionalism: 1. An historical perspective of regionalism / Theresa Carpenter; 2. The landscape of regional trade arrangements and WTO surveillance / Roberto V. Fiorentino, Jo-Ann Crawford and Christelle Toqueboeuf; Part II. Multilateralizaton: Prospects and Past Experience: 3. Beyond tariffs: multilateralizing non-tariff RTA commitments / Simon Evenett and Patrick Low; Comment / Sebastien Miroudot; 4. Multilateralizing regionalism: lessons from the EU experience in relaxing rules of origin / Michael Gasiorek, Patricia Augier, and Charles Lai-tong; 5. The information technology agreement: sui generis or model stepping stone? / Catherine Mann and Xuepeng Liu; Comment / Alejandro Jara; Part III. Multilateralization: Sectors and Themes: 6. Services provisions in regional trade agreements: stumbling or building blocks for multilateral liberalization? / Carsten Fink and Marion Jansen; 7. Harmonizing preferential rules of origin regimes around the world / Antoni Estevadeordal, Jeremy Harris, and Kati Suominen; Comment / Olivier Cadot; 8. Legal avenues to 'multilateralizing regionalism': beyond article XXIV / Joost Pauwelyn; Part IV. Multilateralization: Regional Perspectives: 9. Multilateralizing regionalism: case study of African regionalism / Peter Draper and Mzukisi Qobo; 10. Multilateralizing RTAs in the Americas: state of play and ways forward / Antoni Estevadeordal, Matthew Shearer and Kati Suominen; Comment / Marcelo Olearraga; 11. Multilateralizing regional trade arrangements in Asia / Masahiro Kawai and Ganeshan Wignaraja; Comment / Inkyo Cheong; 12. Fitting Asia-Pacific agreements into the WTO system / Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott; 13. Multilateralizing preferential trade agreements: a developing country perspective / Bernard Hoekman and L. Alan Winters; Comment / Philip I. Levy; 14. The challenge of negotiating RTAs for developing countries. What could the WTO do to help? / Jim Rollo; Comment / Claude Barfield