The Concept Design of a Twenty-First Century Preferential Trade Agreement

Trends and Future Innovations

Kathleen Claussen, Manfred Elsig, Rodrigo Polanco

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009484633
• Subtopic: International Trade Law
• Index: Law

The Concept Design of a 21st Century Preferential Trade Agreement describes the current status and possible future evolution of trade agreements. The individual contributions provide fine-grained analyses of the various challenges trade agreements face and how these differ across countries. The book brings together leading researchers from international law and international relations to provide conceptual and empirical insights to inform the ongoing reform debates. By taking stock of scholarly advances, the book further aims at stimulating cross-fertilization in the study of trade agreements in the field of international economic law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Thinking about the Future Design of Preferential Trade Agreements
• 2 Preferential Frontiers in Services Trade Governance
• 3 Technical Barriers to Trade and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Preferential Trade Agreements: The Recent Past and the Near Future
• 4 Trade Facilitation in Preferential Trade Agreements: The Edge of a New Frontier?
• 5 The Future Design of Intellectual Property Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements: Three Propositions
• 6 Government Procurement in Twenty-First Century PTAs
• 7 Digital Trade: New Design Elements in Preferential Trade Agreements
• 8 Recent Trends and Future Developments with Regard to Foreign Investment in PTAs
• 9 Subsidies and Future PTAs: From Market Distortions to Legitimate Policy Goals?
• 10 The Concept Design of International Rules on State Intervention in the Economy
• 11 Global Value Chains: The Road to Resilience
• 12 Mode 4 ‘On the Move’: Towards a Migrantification of the Temporary Movement of Persons in Preferential Trade Agreements?
• 13 The Trade and Labour Nexus: Envisioning the Design and Implementation of Future Labour Chapters in Preferential Trade Agreements
• 14 Taking Climate Change Seriously in the Design of Trade Agreements
• 15 Gender Equality in Trade Agreements: The Old, the New, and the Future
• 16 The Future of Trade Agreement Dispute Settlement Provisions
• 17 Regulatory Convergence in Preferential Trade Agreements: What Does the Future Hold?
• Index