The Origin of Goods Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements

by Cadot, Olivier; Estavadeoral, Antoni; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko; Verdier, Thierry

• ISBN13: 9780199290482
• ISBN10: 0199290482
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Rules of Origin (RoO) are among the most important instruments in the negotiation and functioning of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs). Although they never make newspapers headlines, they are designed to determine the eligibility of goods for preferential treatment among RTA members. Ostensibly meant to prevent transshipment of imported products across RTA borders after only superficial assembly, they may act in practice as complex and opaque trade barriers. This book provides evidence strongly suggesting that they do so by intent rather than accidentally-in other words, that RoO are truly trade policy instruments.

Author Biography

Olivier Cadot is Professor of Economics at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Institut d'Economie Appliquee (Crea). He was previously Associate Professor at INSEAD and has held visiting positions at UCLA and McGill. He holds a Ph.D in Economics from Princeton University and a Master's in Economic History from McGill University. He is a fellow of the CEPR and an associate scholar of the CERDI and CEPREMAP. He also serves on the editorial board of the Revue d'Economie du Developpement. Antoni Estevadeordal is a Principal Trade Economist and Research Coordinator at the Integration, Trade and Hemispheric Issues Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Before joining the IDB he taught at the University of Barcelona and Harvard University. He has published widely in major journals, most recently in American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of International Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, Economia and the Journal of World Trade. He holds a PhD and MA in Economics from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from the University of Barcelona. Akiko Suwa Eisenmann is an Economist at INRA, National Institute for Agricultural Research, France. He teaches Development Economics at EHESS PhD programmes and ENSAE, Paris. Has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the OECD Development Centre. Thierry Verdier is Director of DELTA, Senior Civil Engineer and Research Director at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, EHESS) in Paris. He is also the Co-director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London. His master and doctoral degrees were received from Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees and EHESS.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	x
List of Contributors	xii
Introduction	1	(16)
Olivier Cadot
Antoni Estevadeordal
Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
Thierry Verdier
Part I. Rules of Origin: Theoretical perspectives	17	(50)
Understanding Rules of Origin	19	(16)
Kala Krishna
The impact of Rules of Origin on strategic outsourcing: an IO perspective	35	(32)
Mathias Thoenig
Thierry Verdier
Part II. Rules of Origin in Regional Trade Agreements around the world	67	(80)
Mapping and measuring Rules of Origin around the world	69	(45)
Antoni Estevadeordal
Kati Suominen
Rules of Origin for services: economic and legal considerations	114	(33)
Americo Beviglia Zampetti
Pierre Sauve
Part III. The political economy of Rules of Origin	147	(42)
Rules of Origin as export subsidies	149	(24)
Olivier Cadot
Antoni Estevadeordal
Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
Rules of Origin and US trade policy	173	(16)
I.M. (Mac) Destler
Part IV. Measuring the impact of Rules of Origin	189	(68)
Are different Rules of Origin equally costly? Estimates from NAFTA	191	(22)
Celine Carrere
Jaime de Melo
Implementing PTAs in the Southern Cone region of Latin America: Rules of Origin	213	(24)
Pablo Sanguinetti
Eduardo Bianchi
Preferential trade arrangements production, and trade with differentiated intermediates	237	(20)
Joseph Francois
Part V. Rules of Origin and development	257	(58)
Rules of Origin as tools of development? Some lessons from SADC	259	(36)
Hennie Erasmus
Frank Flatters
Robert Kirk
Trade preferences for Africa and the impact of Rules of Origin	295	(20)
Paul Brenton
Takako Ikezuki
Index	315