Foreword Pascal Lamy -- Introduction Richard Baldwin and Patrick Low -- Part I. Background to Regionalism: 1. An historical perspective of regionalism Theresa Carpenter -- 2. The landscape of regional trade arrangements and WTO surveillance Roberto V. Fiorentino, Jo-Ann Crawford and Christelle Toqueboeuf -- Part II. Multilateralisaton -- Prospects and Past Experience: 3. Beyond tariffs: multilateralising non-tariff RTA commitments Simon Evenett and Patrick Low -- Comment S. Miroudot -- 4. Multilateralising regionalism: lessons from the EU experience in relaxing rules of origin Michael Gasiorek -- 5. The information technology agreement: sui generis or model stepping stone? Catherine Mann and Xuepeng Liu -- Comment Alejandro Jara -- Part III. Multilateralisation -- Sectors and Themes: 6. Services provisions in regional trade agreements: stumbling or building blocks for multilateral liberalization? Carsten Fink and Marion Jansen -- 7. Harmonizing preferential rules of origin regimes around the world Jeremy Harris -- Comment Olivier Cadot -- 8. Legal avenues to 'multilateralising regionalism': beyond article XXIV Joost Pauwelyn -- Part IV. Multilateralization -- Regional Perspectives: 9. Multilateralising regionalism: case study of African regionalism Peter Draper and Mzukisi Qobo -- 10. Multilateralising RTAs in the Americas Antoni Estevadeordal, Matthew Shearer and Kati Suominen -- Comment Marcelo Olearraga -- 11. Multilateralising regional trade arrangements in Asia Masahiro Kawai and Ganesh Wignaraja -- Comment I. Cheong -- 12. Fitting Asia-Pacific agreements into the WTO system Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey Shott -- 13. Multilateralising preferential trade agreements: a developing country perspective Bernard Hoekman and L. Alan Winters -- Comment P. Levy -- 14. The challenge of negotiating RTAs for developing countries. What could the WTO do to help? Jim Rollo -- Comment C. Barfield.