The European Market and the FTAA: two contrasting business strategies?

To better insert within globalization, the Latin American economies made radical moves in terms of economic-trade relations with the world in the 1990s. Besides treaties deriving from multilateral agreements, first within the GATT and later under the WTO, some bilateral and regional on trade initiat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Piñón Antillón, Rosa María
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios Latinoamericanos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/50058
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rel/article/view/50058
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:GATT
OMC
MERCOSUR
ALCA.
WTO
FTAA
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Sumario:To better insert within globalization, the Latin American economies made radical moves in terms of economic-trade relations with the world in the 1990s. Besides treaties deriving from multilateral agreements, first within the GATT and later under the WTO, some bilateral and regional on trade initiatives took place throughout the region. However, only Mexico and Chile enabled to have agreements with the United States and Europe. Eager to have more economic influence, the United States proposed a regional agreement under the American Trade for the Americas. It basically liberalizes all the economic activity in all countries, except in Cuba. Not wanting to get behind the United States, the European offered a development plan with MERCOSUR and the Anden Community. The author analyzes such propositions and their implications, and how they are driven to drag the region in the global economy.