From the early years of the 1990s, in parallel with the process of globalization, regionalism (regionalism) have had strong growth both in terms of quantity and quality. Before then, regionalism often bring the form free trade areas (Free Trade Area) but since the 1990s, form a FTA (Free Trade Agreement) bilateral or multi lateral become more popular, with a range of broader cooperation, not only limited to the implementation of the trade liberalization of goods service, but also the promotion and investment liberalisation, cooperation in technology transfer, facilitate customs procedures goods, capacity-building and many other new content such as labor, environment.At present in the context of multilateral trade talks deadlock (the Doha round of the WTO), the sharp increase in the bilateral and regional FTAS is becoming a significant trend in international economic relations from the beginning of the 21st century. As of March 2009, there were 233 regional trade agreements, of which over 70% are FTA and was notified to the WTO.
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