Nation-states in continental markets: the political geography of freetrade
Economic impact ; Economic theory ; Freetrade ; Geopolitics ; International trade ; Nation-state ; Political geography
History of the free-trade idea and what it means in economic and political terms. Case study of the consequences of the Canada-U.S. freetrade agreement on Canada shows that it is not a compretely benign idea. - (DWG)
The hegemonic cycle and freetrade: the US and Mexico
Capitalism ; Domination ; Economic strategy ; Freetrade ; International trade ; Investment ; Liberalisation ; Market ; Mexico ; Protectionism ; Trade agreement ; United States
The North American FreeTrade Agreement is a function of the declining hegemony of the US in the world-system. The paper shows that two periods in US-Mexican relations portray the US hegemonic cycle in the world-system. The second one corresponds
The greening of freetrade? The debate about the North American FreeTrade Agreement (NAFTA) and the environment
Ecological movement ; Environment ; Freetrade ; International trade ; Man-environment relations ; North America ; Sovereignty ; Sustainable development ; Trade agreement
Regionale Effekte der Abschaffung von Duty-Free-Verkäufen innerhalb der Europäischen Union. Die Seegrenze zwischen dem Norden Schleswig-Holsteine und Dänemark
Effets régionaux de la suppression des ventes duty-free à l'intérieur de l'Union Européenne. La frontière maritime entre le nord du Schleswig-Holstein et le Danemark
Common Market ; Denmark ; Duty-freetrade ; Economic impact ; Europe ; European Union ; Germany ; Maritime traffic ; Passengers ; Regional economy ; Regional policy ; Schleswig-Holstein ; Trade
Allemagne ; Commerce ; Commerce duty-free ; Danemark ; Economie régionale ; Europe ; Impact économique ; Marché Commun ; Passagers ; Politique régionale ; Schleswig-Holstein ; Trafic maritime ; Union Européenne
Les thèmes suivants sont abordés dans l'article : 1. Harmonisation et suppression de la vente duty-free dans l'Union Européenne, 2. Trafic maritime duty-free entre le Schleswig-Holstein et le Danemark, 3. Importance pour l'économie régionale de la
navigation duty-free, 4. Conséquences de la suppression de la navigation duty-free, 5. Importance pour la politique régionale de la suppression du commerce duty-free dans l'Union Européenne. - (MT)
Freetrade agreements and interregional labor migration: the case of the U.S. and Canada
Canada ; Economic impact ; Freetrade ; Inter-regional trade flow ; International trade ; Labour migration ; Liberalisation ; Model ; Trade agreement ; United States of America ; Utility fonction
Trade disputes, dispute settlement mechanisms, and local development
Canada ; Competition ; Development ; European Union ; Industrial sector ; International trade ; Local development ; Steel ; Trade agreement ; United States of America
This article highlights the role of Dispute settlement mechanisms (DSMs) in freetrade agreements, especially in relation to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and draws out some implications for local development. The study reviews literatures
. Economic geographers need to incorporate freetrade institutional architectures in contemplations of local development.
that have addressed the mandate and rationale of the WTO's formal and legalistic DSM, paying especial attention to the realist perspective on international trade, the issue of fairness, and implications of asymmetric power relations for local development
A location-allocation model for regional health care services planning is presented which can be used to analyze the problems of the equity-revenue trade-off relation in the spatial provision of health car services in a free-entry and free
The cosmopolitanization of trade regions : global trends and implications, 1965-1990
Economic flow ; Economies of scale ; Freetrade ; International economy ; International trade ; Internationalization ; Liberalisation ; Regionalization ; Spatial structure
The paper examines global regionalization tendencies by tracing trade interactions from 1965 to 1990 and finds a trend toward a less spatially fragmented world economy. Five dominant trade regions may be identified in 1990 as compared to eight
to trade a larger share of their GDP with the rest of the world.
On the impact of competition on trade and firm location
Capital ; Competition ; Competitiveness ; Economic geography ; Export ; Firm ; Firm strategy ; International trade ; Local market ; Location
margins of exports, it investigates how the intensity of trade reacts to the degree of competitiveness. Furthermore, when firms are free to change location, they flow from the small to the large country, and the larger country is always a net exported
This article studies how the level of trade costs and the intensity of competition interact to explain the nature and intensity of trade within a given industry and the location of firms across countries. By exploring the intensive and extensive
on the manufactured good. Firms located in the big country have a bigger size than those located in the small one. Under one-way trade, the relocation of firms changes their attitude toward export.
. The avalaible data does not generally support the idea that freetrade has turned Mexico into a pollution haven. Instead, NAFTA has had negative as well as positive impacts on the environment of Mexico.
This paper takes stock of 15 years of NAFTA's environmental impacts on Mexico. It analyses the role of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Furthermore, it discusses NAFTA's environmental effects in the light of physical trade balances