Publication Number: 3855

Report Title: U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement: Potential Economy-wide and Selected Sectoral Effects

Investigation Number: TA-2104-020

Author's name(s): Nannette Christ

Date Published: June 2006

Report Description/Introductory Text: USITC economic assessment of the U.S.-Peru trade promotion agreement. The USITC report assesses economic effects of the U.S.-Peru TPA on the U.S. economy and on specific U.S. economic sectors. The report assesses provisions of the U.S.-Peru agreement in market access; trade facilitation including customs administration, technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary regulations, electronic commerce, and transparency; investment; and the regulatory environment including safeguards and trade remedies, government procurement, the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, labor, and the environment. The USITC economic assessment of the U.S.-Peru free trade agreement employs a global CGE model for a quantitative assessment of the impact of the TPA market access provisions. Other economic effects of the U.S.-Peru TPA were assessed using qualitative analysis.

Topics Covered: andean, foreign trade, international trade, free trade, trade agreement, FTA, trade dispute, trade promotion agreement, TPA

Countries: Peru, United States

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