El problema de las reglas de origen preferenciales en los tratados de libre comercio suscritos por Colombia en el contexto de la organización mundial del comercio

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to determine the legal reasons why nations attached to the World Trade Organization should adopt a general legal framework of preferential rules of origin that allow equitable treatment between developing countries and undeveloped countries. To this end, the scope of the regulations developed Agreement on Rules of Origin of the World Trade Organization, whether preferential or non-preferential, is analyzed; Next, the rules of origin established in the Free Trade Agreement signed by Colombia and the United States are analyzed and, finally, the legal reasons why nations attached to the World Trade Organization should adopt a general legal framework of rules of preferential origin that allow equal treatment between undeveloped countries and developed countries