spaghetti bowl effect

English

Etymology

First used by Jagdish Bhagwati in a 1995 paper: "US Trade policy: The infatuation with free trade agreements".

Noun

spaghetti bowl effect (plural spaghetti bowl effects)

  1. (economics) A multiplication of free trade agreements, supplanting multilateral World Trade Organization negotiations as an alternative path toward globalization.
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