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CIAO DATE: 03/02
Volume 1, Number 16, November 1996
Preface
Are regional trade agreements compatible or incompatible with the multilateral trading system of the World Trade Organization (WTO)? Five articles in this issue of Economic Perspectives look at this question from different angles, and other articles look at looming issues for the WTO and regional trade arrangements: the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, and the Middle East Economic Summit.