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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Objective and Organization -- Introduction -- Objectives -- Methodology -- Organization -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Corporate Influence in US Trade Policy -- Introduction -- Objectives -- Philosophies -- Policy Formulation as a Synthesis -- Policy Implementation -- White House -- Congress7 -- USTR and Interagency Process -- Interest Groups -- Lobbyists -- Think Tanks -- Nongovernmental Organizations and Universities -- Labor Organizations -- Media -- Foreign Actors in US Trade Policy -- Influence of Corporations on Trade Policy -- Corporate Executives in the Cabinet -- Revolving-Door: Federal Bureaucracy and Corporate America -- Influence of Money in US Politics -- Money, Lobbying, and Perverse Policy Outcomes -- Corporate Dominance of the Consultative Process -- National Versus Corporate Interests in US Trade Policy -- Overview -- Chapter 3: The Importance of Bananas in the Caribbean -- Introduction -- The Caribbean -- Emergence of the Banana Industry in Jamaica -- Creation of the Banana Industry in the Eastern Caribbean -- Nature of Banana Farming -- Downside of the Banana Industry -- Importance of the Banana Industry -- Epilogue -- Chapter 4: The EU Banana Regime -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Preferential Trade Arrangements for Developing Countries -- Rationale and Operation -- Preference Erosion: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -- Impact on Small Vulnerable Developing Economies -- Causes of Preference Erosion -- Grounds for Maintaining Preferences -- Legitimacy -- Vulnerability -- Affordability -- Imperfect Substitutability -- Retention of Preferences -- Recalibration of Preferences25 -- Restructuring Preference-Dependent Economies -- Redimensioning Development Financing -- Part II -- EU Banana Regime -- The Evolution of EU Banana Regime.

1. Objective and Organization -- 2. Corporate Influence in US Trade Policy -- 3. The Importance of Bananas in the Caribbean -- 4. The EU Banana Regime -- 5. Chiquita and Its Influence on US Trade Policy -- 6. Chiquita Overwhelms the Small Caribbean States -- 7. Impact of US Banana Policy on the Caribbean -- 8. Implications for US National Interest in the Caribbean.

This is the most in-depth study of the economic partnership between the European Union and the CARIFORUM countries, a group of fifteen small developing economies in the Caribbean. The CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is the first trade agreement of its kind, as it is a new type of WTO-compatible trade agreement between a group of developed countries and a group of developing countries. As a principal negotiator for CARIFORUM, Bernal's qualifications allow him to provide a unique perspective on the increasingly important topic of trade and economic development in the midst of globalization. Globalization, Trade, and Economic Development comprehensively explores the components of the EPA from all angles, explains how the agreement provides opportunities to strengthen and accelerate economic development, and outlines the policies which can allow the CARIFORUM countries to seize these opportunities. Bernal's explanation of the institutional arrangements for the conduct of the negotiations by CARIFORUM is invaluable to governments and regional organizations in developing countries for coordinating groups to advance common and joint positions in international negotiations.