1st Edition

Preferential Trade Agreements and Cultural Products

By Gilbert Gagné Copyright 2025
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

This book discusses the treatment of cultural products within international trade law, focusing on preferential trade agreements. Trade and culture intersect when cultural products are involved. These mainly encompass cinema, broadcasting, music, videos, and publishing, either in traditional or digital formats. As such products reflect the cultural identities of states, they have led to a... Read more

List of tables

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

 

Introduction

 

1. The Trade and Culture Debate

2. Cultural Products and Trade Negotiations

3. The United States

4. Canada

5. Europe

6. Oceania

7. Asia

8. Latin America

9. Central America

10. PTAs, the CDCE, and International Law

11. Conclusion

 

Bibliography

Index

 

Biography

Gilbert Gagné is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Bishop’s University, Canada. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Ottawa and a doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford. His research interests mainly pertain to North American economic integration, subsidies and trade dispute settlement, the protection of foreign investment and investor-state arbitration, and the treatment of cultural products in preferential trade agreements. Much of his research is at the intersection of international trade agreements and states’ regulatory autonomy, with a particular focus on cultural policies.

"Preferential Trade Agreements and Cultural Products thoroughly inventories how states have used the spread of PTA’s to pursue or defend policy goals for audiovisual services and the wider ‘cultural industries.’ Gilbert Gagné has produced the single most  comprehensive study of this subject available."

Kerry A. Chase, Brandeis University