ABSTRACT
This chapter considers three Preferential Plurilateral Trade Agreements (PPTAs): the ASEAN-Aus-NZ PPTA, the Trans-Pacific PPTA and the EAEU. The EAEU is a customs union and an economic integration agreement among countries in the same region, with an implementation period of ten years. The Trans-Pacific PPTA contains a more comprehensive chapter on competition policy than does the EU-Canada BTA. Whilst the latter recognizes that measures which its Parties take to prohibit anti-competitive business behaviour are to be transparent, fair and non-discriminatory, the Trans-Pacific PPTA takes a more practical approach. Finally, the exceptions provision in the EAEU Treaty is a reduced form of the general and security exceptions in the GATT and the GATS. A comprehensive analysis and cross-Agreement comparison of the contents of the Schedules of the PTAs that this book considers would help to provide an accurate picture of the relative depth of these Agreements.
