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Ortiz Mena L.N., Antonio. "Forum-shopping in International Trade: A Tradeoff between Scope and Flexibility? Evidence from the Mexican Case" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2008-12-12 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40579_index.html>

Ortiz Mena L.N., A. , 2005-09-01 "Forum-shopping in International Trade: A Tradeoff between Scope and Flexibility? Evidence from the Mexican Case" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2008-12-12 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40579_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Pekkanen, Solis and Katada (see their 2005 APSA paper "The Politics of Forum-shopping in International Trade: the Case of Japan) posit that state choice over trade diplomacy at the bilateral, regional, and multilateral levels is essentially a tradeoff between the scope and flexibility (SF) of rules governing international trade: all else being equal, when states put a premium on flexibility they will tend to favor regional and especially bilateral institutions, and when they have overriding concerns for scope they will concentrate their efforts in multilateral institutions. This paper examines whether this tradeoff in fact holds in light of Mexico�s experience with multilateralism, regionalism, and bilateralism. The main finding is that Mexico�s regional and bilateral trade agreements provide for a great deal of scope and that the specific commitments it has undertaken in the General Agreement on tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) reflect substantial flexibility. Accordingly, Mexico�s forum shopping does not fit the SF tradeoff thus and cannot be accounted for by economic and political calculations based on that tradeoff.

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