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While multinational agreements are subject to lively discussions and their negotiations the frequent topic of our news, little is known about bilateral agreements. This despite the fact that their number has greatly increased since the worldwide recession. So alone the USA and the EC have both signed over a hundred bilateral trade agreements to protect them against imports or safeguard their export interests.
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Center for Economic Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich.
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Senti, R. Bilateral agricultural and commodity agreements—protectionism made to measure. Intereconomics 13, 115–122 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929177
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