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Free Trade Under Fire, Chapter 7: Study Guide

Answers Questions (including pages/quotations/key terms) What is the thesis of this reading?

Facts: Are You Paying Attention? (a) What is GATT?

(b) What is RTAA?

(c) What is MFN?

(d) In the context of GATT, what is a “round”?

(e) What is fast track?

(f) What is national treatment? (g) What is dirty tariffication?

(h) What is TRIPS?

(i) What is SPS?

(j) What is transshipment?

(k) What is the significance of rules of origin?

Arguments: Did You Understand? (l) In what sense was the RTAA an important political innovation for trade policy?

(m) What was significant about the Uruguay Round? (n) Why is agriculture a particularly difficult trade policy issue?

(o) According to Irwin, what are the strengths and weaknesses of the WTO?

(p) Why doesn’t Irwin think that trade treaties should ban the importation of tuna caught with nets that also kill dolphins or shrimp caught with nets that also kill turtles? (q) According to Irwin, what principles were at stake in the dispute over the European ban on American beef products?

(r) Why is Irwin critical of bilateral and regional free trade agreements (as opposed to multilateral trade agreements)?

Synthesis: Can You See Connections? (s) What principles should guide international trade policy, according to Irwin? (t) What are the greatest failures of the international trade system, according to Irwin?