Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements: Why Countries Exceed WTO Obligations‪.‬

Byline: Selina Adam Khan The past half century has seen a sharp increase in economic interdependence. Shallow integration in the form of lowering trade and investment barriers and the granting of national treatment of foreign products and firms, has given way to deep integration, essentially between the North and the newly industrialized countries. Deep integration or ,,behind the door policies - policies once deemed wholly domestic?1 - ranges from ,,harmonization of standards to macroeconomic policy coordination?.2