題 目：The New World of Interlocking Free Trade Agreements: Are We Moving in the Right Direction?
主講人：Alan Deardorff 教授 副院長
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ford School of Public Policy
時 間：2011年5月12日下午2:00-3:30
地 點： 主樓241學術報告廳
主講人簡介：
Alan V. Deardorff is John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University in 1971 and has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan since 1970. He served as Chair of the Department of Economics from 1991 to 1995. Since 2007 he has been Associate Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Professor Deardorff has served as a consultant to many government agencies, including the Departments of State, Treasury, and Labor of the United States Government and international institutions including OECD, UNCTAD, and the World Bank.
內容簡介：
The last two decades have seen remarkable expansion of free trade agreements (FTAs) among pairs and small groups of countries, at the same time that multilateral trade liberalization through the World Trade Organization has ceased to advance. Prospects for the latter are still uncertain, but look dim. Further proliferations of FTAs, however, seems inevitable, with countries increasingly becoming members of multiple overlapping groupings. In an ideal world, this proliferation might lead over time to a good approximation of multilateral free trade, as countries eliminate their trade barriers against expanding lists of other countries. In practice, however, these FTAs do not achieve this outcome, in part because they include many issues other than trade that may only questionably contribute to more open markets, and in part because they limit their free-trade provisions by means of rules of origin. These not only undermine the benefits of reduced tariffs but also create additional protectionist barriers against imported inputs and semi-processed goods. To the extent that expanding use of FTAs is to become the new norm of international trade policy, the world needs improved disciplines on the contents and structures that these agreements should include.
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