Trade Preferences and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries

Edited by Bernard Hoekman, European University Institute, Italy and Çağlar Özden, The World Bank, US

'The 29 papers in this large book are well selected and annotated by two authors who know the literature intimately and have made their own distinguished contributions. . . this volume is an extremely valuable resource.'

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction Bernard Hoekman and Çağlar ÖzdenPART IHISTORY/EARLY IDEAS AND ASSESSMENTS 1. UNCTAD (1964), ‘Industrial Exports from the Developing Countries and Preferences’2. Gardner Patterson (1965), ‘Would Tariff Preferences Help Economic Development?’3. Harry G. Johnson (1967), ‘Trade Preferences for Manufactured Goods’4. Mordechai E. Kreinin and J.M. Finger (1976), ‘A Critical Survey of the New International Economic Order’PART IIECONOMIC ANALYSIS 5. Richard N. Cooper (1972), ‘The European Community’s System of Generalized Tariff Preferences: A Critique’6. Tracy Murray (1973), ‘How Helpful is the Generalised System of Preferences to Developing Countries?’7. R.E. Baldwin and T. Murray (1977), ‘MFN Tariff Reductions and Developing Country Trade Benefits under the GSP’8. André Sapir (1981), ‘Trade Benefits under the EEC Generalized System of Preferences’9. André Sapir and Lars Lundberg (1984), ‘The U.S. Generalized System of Preferences and Its Impacts’10. Drusilla K. Brown (1987), ‘General Equilibrium Effects of the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences’11. Don P. Clark and Simonetta Zarrilli (1992), ‘Non-Tariff Measures and Industrial Nation Imports of GSP-Covered Products’12. James Devault (1996), ‘Competitive Need Limits and the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences’PART IIIADMINISTRATIVE COSTS 13. Jan Herin (1986), ‘Rules of Origin and Differences between Tariff Levels in EFTA and in the EC’14. Paul Brenton and Miriam Manchin (2003), ‘Making EU Trade Agreements Work: The Role of Rules of Origin’15. Aaditya Mattoo, Devesh Roy and Arvind Subramanian (2003), ‘The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its Rules of Origin: Generosity Undermined?’16. Christopher Stevens and Jane Kennan (2004), ‘Making Trade Preferences More Effective’PART IVPOLITICAL ECONOMY 17. Rachel McCulloch and José Piñera (1977), ‘Trade as Aid: The Political Economy of Tariff Preferences for Developing Countries’18. Edward John Ray (1987), ‘The Impact of Special Interests on Preferential Tariff Concessions by the United States’19. Marcelo Olarreaga and Çaglar Özden (2005), ‘AGOA and Apparel: Who Captures the Tariff Rent in the Presence of Preferential Market Access?’20. Çaglar Özden and Eric Reinhardt (2005), ‘The Perversity of Preferences: GSP and Developing Country Trade Policies, 1976–2000’PART VPREFERENCE EROSION 21. Jaleel Ahmad (1978), ‘Tokyo Rounds of Trade Negotiations and the Generalised System of Preferences’22. Fumiko Yamazaki (1996), ‘Potential Erosion of Trade Preferences in Agricultural Products’23. Katerina Alexandraki and Hans Peter Lankes (2004), ‘The Impact of Preference Erosion on Middle-Income Countries’PART VIINTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, GATT/WTO DEVELOPMENTS AND PROPOSALS FOR REFORM 24. Martin Wolf (1984), ‘Two-Edged Sword: Demands of Developing Countries and the Trading System’25. Brian Hindley (1987), ‘Different and More Favorable Treatment – and Graduation’26. John Whalley (1999), ‘Special and Differential Treatment in the Millennium Round’27. Susan Prowse (2002), ‘The Role of International and National Agencies in Trade-related Capacity Building’28. Christopher Stevens (2003), ‘If One Size Doesn’t Fit All, What Does? Rethinking Special and Differential Treatment in the World Trade Organization’29. Bernard Hoekman, Constantine Michalopoulos and L. Alan Winters (2004), ‘Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries in the WTO: Moving Forward After Cancún’ANNEX 30. GATT (1965), GATT: Trade and Development31. GATT (1979), The Enabling ClauseName Index