Introduction: Juggling with WTO Rules in Latin America / Vivianne Ventura-Dias -- Rules and power in the liberalization of world trade: collective action and national autonomy -- Ideas, interest and institutions in the political economy of Latin American trade policy -- Final considerations -- Trade Liberalization and Preferential Market Access -- Chile: A Multi-Track Market Access Strategy / Veronica Silva -- Trade and investment in Chile in the 1990s -- Market access, export promotion and adjustment to multilateral rules -- The interplay between public and private interests: conflict and cooperation -- The negotiating agenda -- Mexico: A Regional Player in Multilateral Trade Negotiations / Antonio Ortiz Mena -- From unilateral liberalization to regional integration -- Trade policy instruments -- WTO commitments -- Business and government views -- Mexico as a regional player -- The Management of Trade Liberalization in the Mercosur -- Argentina: In a Logic of Nested Games / Diana Tussie, Gabriel Casaburi, Cintia Quiliconi -- Trade policy revisited -- WTO commitments: a mercantilist overview of costs and benefits -- The regional constitution: Mercosur -- The life cycle of the public-private interaction -- The logic of multiple games -- Brazil: The Fine-Tuning of Trade Liberalization / Pedro da Motta Veiga, Vivianne Ventura-Dias -- Trade and investment policies -- Brazilian production and trade -- The management of trade liberalization: the views of public and private actors.