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...John M. Dyer LAFTA. Key to Latin America’s 200 Million Consumers . Prepared by Business International . New York , 1966 . Business International . Business International Research Report . Charts. Tables. Figures. Appendices . Pp. 68 . Paper. Copyright 1968 by Duke University...

... not explicitly mention Latin America, but they raise some pertinent challenges to traditional theories of international trade and development. LAFTA (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay) is analyzed from a wide variety of viewpoints in the twelve essays of Part Two...

... tariffs concessions to be made by each national industry, such as automobiles, petrochemicals, electronics, and so on. As an example of this struggle, Magariños cites the duplicity of Eduardo Frei. While claiming commitment to LAFTA, Frei worked behind the scenes to create the rival Andean Community (AC...

... (CACM) and Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). It may be worth recalling that the emergence of the Andean scheme was largely due to its six members’ dissatisfaction with the performance of LAFTA which all of them joined in the early sixties. The traditional free-trade LAFTA approach together...

...Christopher Garbacz In spite of these difficulties, the book is recommended as a good reference source for the events in the first twelve years of LAFTA. What this leads up to is a charge that there is little analysis in chapters 1-9 that is not economics and that has not been said better...

... University Press 1973 It is scarcely a secret that LAFTA encountered grave difficulties in maintaining its initial momentum and that its evolution towards a regional market is fraught with all manner of obstacles. Still, the arguments for integration as a means of fostering development in small...

... American response as made in three ways: through law (notably the inter-American rule of nonintervention), through association (the League of Nations and the United Nations), and through union (from the Panama Congress of 1826 to the present-day Latin American Free Trade Association, or LAFTA). Another...

..., intraregional financing, and “the exercise of leadership” (à la LAFTA’s Council of Ministers). In all, this should prove a most useful reference work. It is a pity that there is no set of offerings on agriculture and its problems, hut both LAFTA and CACM give this sector scant attention, so that the sin...

... of monopoly capitalism and the political class micromanaged Latin American economies via manipulation of ALALC/LAFTA, impairing the integration movement. Indeed, this study details the perils of “micromanaged trade.” Magariños’s work will serve historians as the magnum opus of the contemporary integration...

... justice to a subject which is so important that both he and Dell cite it as a primary factor in the successful formation of LAFTA (Latin American Free Trade Area). With respect to Dell’s latest work (see his earlier Trade Blocs and Common Markets , 1963), it is heartening to report...

... background on Latin American trade, observations on current trade patterns among LAFTA countries, and suggestions for future research. Brookings Institution initiated a program of Latin American economic studies in 1963. This book is the first publication in a series of studies examining economic...

... to the more halting advance of the larger LAFTA common market group based in Montevideo, the survey devotes to it an entire section under the heading “Characteristics and Development of the Central American Productive Structure,” discussing in turn (1) the structure, recent development, and prospects...

... America, Cuba, Chile, LAFTA, and the Andean Pact. Each essay provides historical perspective and balanced analysis, with no particular axes to grind. Short and to the point, with extensive footnote references, the essays are up-to-date summaries of vital aspects of Mexico’s foreign affairs. For example...

...), the Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA), and the Central American Common Market (CACM) were excluded, and therefore are seldom mentioned in the essays. The authors avoided questioning whether the EAI, CBI, NAFTA, and other integration projects might be means to facilitate exploitation of Latin...

... Santamaría, President of CIAP (the Interamerican Committee for the Alliance for Progress), and Rómulo Almeida, once of LAFTA and more recently of the now defunct “Committee of Nine Wise Men” that was to review Latin American development plans. ...