Preferenčné regionálne obchodné dohody ako uprednostňovaný nástroj zahraničnoobchodnej politiky
Preferential Regional Trade Agreements as Preferred Foreign Trade Policy Instrument

Summary/Abstract: Submitted article presents macroeconomic analysis of motivating global fra-mework for using preferential regional trade agreements (RTAs) as preferred foreign trade policy instruments of the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. Their surge has continued unabated since the early 1990s. There were some 200 in 2004 and by the end of 2006 the total number of RTAs in force might well overflow 300. Author focuses on selected issues related to a RTAs pro-liferation and a changing impacts as well as influence of RTAs in com-parison with multilateral trading system, in the context of ongoing globalisation tendencies within the world economy.

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