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TRADE SEMINAR:
“Challenges
on Key Issues for Modern Trade Agreements”
Tuesday June 18, 2002
Hall of the Americas, OAS
Program
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Seminar. Also, click on the corresponding presentation or paper for
download.
8:30 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Introduction and Agenda
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs,
Director, Trade Unit OAS
(View This Speech)*
9:15 a.m. Improving Dispute Settlement Mechanisms
(View These Speeches)*
Moderator:
Mercedes Araoz, Universidad del Pacífico
Speakers:
Steve Charnovitz, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering
“Re-Thinking WTO Trade Sanctions”
Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research
William J. Davey, University of Illinois
“Reforming WTO Dispute Settlement”
Commentator:
Andrew Stoler, World Trade Organization
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. Macroeconomic Coordination Challenges to Regional Integration (View
These Speeches)*
Moderator:
Jose Tavares, OAS Trade Unit
Speakers:
José María Fanelli, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad
“Monetary Dilemmas: Argentina in Mercosur”
(Power Point Presentation)
Ernesto Stein, Inter-American Development Bank
“Trade Agreements, Exchange Rate Disagreements”
(Power Point Presentation)
Commentators:
Daniel Lederman, World Bank (Power Point Presentation)*
John Williamson, Institute for International Economics
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Agriculture (View
These Speeches)*
Moderator:
Marcelo Abreu, Universidad Catolica de Rio de Janeiro /
Latin American Trade Network
Speakers:
Marcos Jank, Inter-American Development Bank
"Prospects for agricultural liberalization in regional and multilateral
negotiations"
Bruce Gardner, University of Maryland
“Prospects for Reform of Domestic Support Policies”
3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:45 p.m. Services (View
These Speeches)*
Moderator:
Diana Tussie, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales –FLACSO /
Latin American Trade Network - LATN
Speakers:
Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank
“Regional Agreements in Services: Some Conceptual Issues”
(Power Point Presentation)
Sherry Stephenson, Organization of American States
"Can Regional Liberalization of Services go further than Multilateral
Liberalization?"
(Power Point Presentation)
Mario Marconini, Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais
”Pros and Cons of Regional Liberalization of Services from the Mercosur
Perspective
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