Negotiating Group on Rules - Submission on Regional Trade Agreements - Chile
- Negotiating Group on Rules - Submission on Regional Trade Agreements
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World Trade
Organization TN/RL/W/16
10 July 2002 (02-3850) Negotiating Group on Rules Original: Spanish
submission ON Regional TRADE AGREEMENTS
Chile
Since 1990, Chile has pursued an active trade liberalization policy in concordance with its development strategy. This policy has combined intensification of the unilateral liberalization process initiated in the mid-1970s with participation in GATT/WTO negotiations and negotiation of trade agreements with countries or regions of interest to Chile. Based on this experience, we would like to share some preliminary thoughts on certain specific aspects of the relationship between the multilateral trading system and regional trade agreements (RTAs).
Chile reaffirms the primacy of the World Trade Organization as a forum for drawing up rules and guiding the process of multilateral trade liberalization. Moreover, it considers that RTAs complement and support the multilateral system, to the extent that they are