Assessing Special and Differential Treatment in Latin American Trade Agreements

ZELICOVICH, JULIETA; PEIXOTO, JULIANA; DAIBERT, LETICIA; DELICH, VALENTINA

Globalization in Latin America: The Law, Politics and Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements

Cambridge University Press

Año: 2023;

Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) has a long history in international trade negotiations. Born as a response to the development gap in the multilateral fora, S&DT has evolved as a set of substantive and procedural rules aimed at providing developing countries with broader policy space. Latin-American countries, which had fostered the creation and improvement of S&DT rules in the GATT-WTO, have faced different challenges in the negotiation of these provisions in their preferential trade agreements (PTAs). This chapter explores the scope of S&DT principles and operative clauses included in Latin-American trade agreements since the early 2000s. The main contributions of this chapter are, first, to present S&DT as a cross-cutting topic in PTAs; second, to bring to light the evolution of development-related policy space in trade agreements recently signed in the region; and third, to assess differences in the legal S&DT architecture across PTAs.*Al momento de informar esta publicación no se dispone del ISBN del libro. El numero presentado no es el correcto