The Purpose of Trade Agreements

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2016

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Princeton University,

Abstract

In this chapter, I review the literature on governments’ motivations for negotiating and joining international trade agreements. I discuss both normative explanations for trade agreements and explanations based on political-economy concerns. Most of the chapter focuses on the purpose of multilateral agreements, but I do discuss briefly the reasons we might see governments forming preferential or regional trade agreements that exclude some countries.

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Trade agreements,Trade pacts,International cooperation,Multilateralism,Regionalism

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