ACPs and EPAs: where’s the beef?
January 03, 2008
Trade Negotiations Insights
Now that the Doha round appears to be stirring back to life, some of the world's poorest countries should be looking to multilateralism to protect their interests with a renewed sense of urgency. The perils of bilateralism and unequal negotiations have been brought into sharp focus by the year-end expiration of the WTO waiver for the Cotonou regime of trade preferences, by which the European Union offered special access to its markets for the African, Carribean, and Pacific (ACP) group of former European colonies.
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Trade Negotiations Insights, Vol. 6 Nr. 8 [PDF]



