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5 - The Information Technology Agreement: sui generis or model stepping stone?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2012

Catherine Mann
Affiliation:
Peterson Institute for International Economics, Brandeis University
Xuepeng Liu
Affiliation:
Kennesaw State University, GA
Richard Baldwin
Affiliation:
Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva
Patrick Low
Affiliation:
World Trade Organization, Geneva
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Multilateralizing Regionalism
Challenges for the Global Trading System
, pp. 182 - 216
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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