Trade liberalization in the western hemisphere.

Foreword, vii -- Contributors, ix -- Project Staff, xi -- Acronyms and Abbreviations, xiii -- Introduction, 1 -- I. The Overall Impact of Hemispheric Trade Liberalization, 9 -- A Western Hemisphere Free Trade Area: Implications for Latin America / W. Max Corden, 11 -- North-South Trade Relations in the Americas: The Case for Free Trade / Rudiger Dornbusch, 33 -- The North American Free Trade Agreement: Hemispheric and Geopolitical Implications / Robert A. Pastor, 53 -- II. What Kind of Agreements are Desirable?, 85 -- Conditions for Maximizing the Gains from a WHFTA / Anne O. Krueger, 87 -- Is a Genuine Partnership Possible in a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Area? / Hans W. Singer, 107 -- Beyond NAFTA: Employment, Growth, and Income-Distribution Effects of a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Area / Robert A. Blecker, William E. Spriggs, 123 -- Strategies for Trade Liberalization in the Americas / Graciela Chichilnisky, 165 -- III. Key Negotiating Issues, 189 -- Rules of Origin in a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Agreement / N. David Palmeter, 191 -- Hemispheric Free Trade and the Restrictions of the Multi-Fiber Agreement / Isidoro A. Hodara, 207 -- Safeguards in a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Agreement / James H. Cassing, 223 -- Dispute Settlement in a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Agreement / Blair Hankey, 243 -- Western Hemisphere Free Trade and United States Trade Laws: The Role of Section 301 / Steven L. Husted, 261 -- Antidumping and Countervailing Duties in a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Agreement / Heather A. Grant, Gilbert R. Winham, 283 -- Regional Free Trade and the Environment / Charles S. Pearson, 303 -- IV. Country Perspectives, 333 -- Western Hemisphere Free Trade: Getting from Here to There / Sidney Weintraub, 335 -- Evaluation of a Chile-U.S. FTA / Andrea Butelmann, Patricio Meller, 361 -- Economic Relations of Brazil and the United States and the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative / Marcelo de Paiva Abreu, 393 -- From MERCOSUR to American Integration / Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Vera Thorstensen, 413 -- Preferential Trade Agreements in the Caribbean: Issues and Approaches / Winston Dookeran, 437 -- The Social Roots of United States Protectionism / Jeffrey W. Hayes, Seymour M. Lipset, 471.