International trade agreements

International trade agreements

trad_agree

Format

A data frame with 870 rows and 24 variables:

DestaID

character The DESTA numerical ID code, preceded by "DTA-". "9000" level agreements are added by Morin et al.

L

character Lateralism: U=Unilateral, B=Bilateral, M=Multilateral, H=Multilateral-Third, I=Multilateral-Multilateral, N=Ministerial

J

character Jurisdiction: G=Global, R=Regional, Z=Bilateral/Border, O=Other

D

character Document type: A=Agreements, P=Protocols, E=Amendments, Q=Minutes, S=Strategies, V=Declarations, X=Exchanges of Notes, W=Resolutions, Y=Memoranda of Understanding

Beg

character Earliest start date

End

character Latest end date

Sign

character Date of agreement signature

Force

character Date of agreement entry into force

Term

character Date of agreement termination

Label

character Short title or abbreviation, for visualization

Lineage

character Organisational lineage

Sequence

numeric Sequence in lineage

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Other variables inherited from other datasets

Source

https://www.designoftradeagreements.org/

References

Andreas Dür, Leonardo Baccini and Manfred Elsig (2014) ‘The Design of International Trade Agreements: Introducing a New Database’, Review of International Organizations, 9(3): 353-375.

Morin, Jean-Frédéric, Joost Pauwelyn, and James Hollway. 2017. “The Trade Regime as a Complex Adaptive System: Exploration and Exploitation of Environmental Norms in Trade Agreements.” Journal of International Economic Law 20 (2). Oxford University Press: 365–90. doi:10.1093/jiel/jgx013.

Examples

data(trad_agree)