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6 - Services provisions in regional trade agreements: stumbling blocks or building blocks for multilateral liberalization?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2012

Carsten Fink
Affiliation:
World Bank, Washington, DC
Marion Jansen
Affiliation:
World Trade Organization, Geneva
Richard Baldwin
Affiliation:
Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva
Patrick Low
Affiliation:
World Trade Organization, Geneva
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Multilateralizing Regionalism
Challenges for the Global Trading System
, pp. 221 - 261
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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