Автор:Jose M. Salazar-Xirinachs, Maryse Robert eds. Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 081570089, 081570089X, 081570089X In the past fifteen years, the nations of the Western Hemisphere have experienced nothing less than a revolution in the way they trade with their neighbors. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean began to liberalize their trade and investment regimes and to implement market-oriented reforms aimed at promoting a more open and dynamic pattern of integration into the world economy. Along with North America, Latin America and the Caribbean have negotiated modern trade agreements that go beyond the elimination of tariffs and nontariff barriers in goods to include provisions on services, investment, intellectual property, government procurement, and dispute settlement. They also have entered into deeper and widerforms of integration at the subregional level. A natural but also unprecedented step along the path toward greater economic interdependence in the hemisphere came about when the leaders of the thirty-four democrat! ically elected...
