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Item North American Free Trade Agreement and Its Implications for Sri Lanka: With Special Reference to the Garment Industry(Institute of Policy Studies, 1994) Kelegama, Saman; Unamboowe, IndiraThe only available literature that gives at least some indication of NAFTA’s implications for Sri Lanka is a study done for the World Bank by Safadi and Yeats (1993) on NAFTA and South Asia. The study is more focussed on South Asia and the conclusions are based on aggregate statistics. An aggregate analysis for the South Asian region is always biased by the inclusion of Indian statistics. Moreover, the analysis of Sri Lanka’s case is based on the regional model which may not necessarily be valid for a small country like Sri Lanka. In this study we have re-examined in detail NAFTA’s implications for Sri Lanka. In particular, we have investigated Sri Lanka’s competitiveness vis-à-vis Mexico in the US market. While supporting the basic conclusion of Safadi and Yeats, they go on to show that NAFTA, and the gradual abolition of the MFA, give new opportunities to further expand the apparel industry of Sri Lanka. However, we argue that this will not happen merely by the market mechanism. Substantial work needs to be done both on the marketing side as well as on the supply side, the latter being weak needing more attention. In regard to the Uruguay Round, our analysis shows that there are gains for Sri Lanka, but the gains are not very significant as argued by Safadi and Yeats (1993).Item Sri Lanka(World Bank, 2003, 2003) Kelegama, SamanItem Repositioning SAFTA in the Regionalism Debate(M.E. Sharpe, 2007) Kelegama, Saman; Adhikari, RatnakarItem An Overview of Sri Lanka's Trading Regime at the Regional, Bilateral and Multilateral Levels(Sri Lanka Economic Association, 2006, 2006) Kelegama, SamanSri Lanka’s trade policy for global integration has four tracks – unilateral, bilateral, regional and multilateral. This chapter provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s trade scenarios from the perspective of these tracks of trade liberalisation.Item Overview(Centad, 2007, 2006) Kelegama, Saman; Chimni, B.S.; Das, B.L.; Rahman, MustafizurProvides an overview of each chapter in the volume.Item SAARC — From Association to Community: a Small Country Economic Perspective(1999) Kelegama, SamanThis essay has given a small country perspective of SAFTA and a more advanced level of economic cooperation in the region. The essay identified four broad areas as major areas of concern for a small member country: (a) political commitment; (b) market access; (c) safeguarding domestic producers; and (c~ trade and investment supporting policies. The concerns in these areas have to be effectively addressed in order to reap the benefits of a PTA or FTA. At present, the domestic policy support for SAFTA remains lukewarm. As long as this is the case, initiatives by the political establishment for regional cooperation will continue to be ambiguous, sporadic, and fragmented, leading to a ’stop and go’ pattern of regional cooperation in SAARC. In such patterns of cooperation, SAARC growth in terms of regional institutional development and programme implementation will remain uncertain, and the organisation’s life cycle will oscillate between short-lived euphoria and agonisingly protracted stalemates.Item South Asian Yearbook of Trade and Development 2006(New Delhi: Wiley India and Centre for Trade and Development (Centad), 2007) Chimni, B.S. (ed.); Das, B.L. (ed.); Kelegama, Saman (ed.); Rahman, Mustafizur (ed.)This annual analyses in depth the implications of trade regimes for the South Asian countries. The range of issues raised include sectors like agriculture, services, and textiles and clothing, and market access issues (such as Duty-Free-Quota-Free market access and the Technical Barriers to Trade). The volume also raises the issues relating to the Rules of Origin and anti-dumping measures, which have been of particular concern for the developing countries. While the volume is focused on multilateral trade policies, critical issues of regional trade integration have also been addressed in some measure.Item Examination of Priority Export Products and Identification of New Export Products for Development and Promotion in Sri Lanka(1993) Kelegama, Saman; Wignaraja, GaneshanThe main objective of this study is to rank the priority export products list identified by the EDB according to the criteria: high labour intensity; high local resource intensity, high market potential, and high supply potential. The ranking exercise was done through using Non-Parametric Methods of Statistical Theory. The study also aims to identify new products that could be developed on the basis of exports made by countries that have/had similar initial conditions as that of Sri Lanka, and on the basis of imports demanded by major markets in the world.Item WTO and Regional Trade Arrangements(Konark Publishers, 2005, 2005) Kelegama, SamanItem South Asia in the WTO(Sage, 2007) Kelegama, Saman (ed.)This book contains all the revised papers at the 'South Asia in the WTO' conference which is organised by the Institute of Policy Studies and Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung in Colombo, Sri Lanka during 18-19 May 2016. The book examines the position of each South Asian country in the multilateral trading system as defined by the WTO and highlights various concerns South Asian countries have on key WTO issues in agriculture, industry, services, and development dimensions. The possibility of South Asian countries formulating a common position in the WTO negotiations is also explored in detail.