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Baobab

(4,667 posts)
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 07:15 PM Mar 2016

Competition Policy in the WTO and FTAA: A Trojan Horse for International Trade Negotiations?

This is part of a series of posts I am hoping to make of older trade related essays which to me seem necessary to read to give context to important trade deal concepts to understand today- because for example, the GATS looms large it seems in all three of the new currently pending trade deals and it itself is still the target for services, TiSA is supposed to be merged with it at some future date..

To read about the core concepts in GATS that are likely to become suddenly relevant soon, one often needs to go back a bit and look at documents from the 1990s and 2000s.. so here is..

Competition Policy in the WTO and FTAA: A Trojan Horse for International Trade Negotiations?

http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National_Office_Pubs/competition_policy.pdf


this is another excellent Policy Alternatives.ca publication.. They have really excellent and highly readable publications on trade.

Please comment on this, this ideology is behind a lot of otherwise totally inexplicable actions by our government.

Don't expect them to explain it, they wont.

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