Environment and Trade: A HandbookUNEP/IISD   
3    The basics of the WTO
   3.6  Regional trade agreements
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Although the WTO provides the central features of the global trade regime, there is also an increasing number of regional and bilateral free trade zones and agreements that build on the global commitments. In chapter 7, three of the most important and developed of these regional structures are described, particularly as they relate to environmental concerns: the North American Free Trade Agreement and its associated North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, the European Union, and the Mercosur group of South American countries.





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