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GAZOL SANCHEZ, Antonio. Free trade: new order. A balance. Economía UNAM [online]. 2016, vol.13, n.38, pp.122-130. ISSN 1665-952X.

The free trade is an ancient aspiration, that in essence was born with the economic science in the late eighteenth century, but that has only existed in partial and limited form in the last third of the nineteenth century and until WW1. The birth of the GATT comes after the failure of the Havana Conference and obeys the need of the world powers in the time of the commerce liberalization. It proposes the creation of free trade zones and customs unions as side mechanisms of global free trade. There are more than 400 free trade agreements and Mexico has signed 11 of them (with which it formalizes, but does not start, its economic opening) and also has taken part in two free trade transnational alliances (TPP and Pacific Alliance), which must be carefully analyzed. In the end it's thought around the Transpacific and Transatlantic free trade agreements and their possible influence on the global economy.

Palavras-chave : International Economics; Commercial Policy; Economic Integration.