Alternate Economic Collaboration

Could you name projects for economic collaboration that were seriously planned or considered, but which were not realized in OTL?

With economic collaboration I mean plans for free trade zones, customs unions or currency unions, plans for transnational electricity networks or similar projects. I would also be interested in forms of economic co-operation that were ended in the Twentieth Century in OTL, but that might have been continued, or others that might have been intensified in another timeline.

Of course any information on suitable PODs to make these forms of collaborations happen are highly welcome.
 
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You could certainly get an earlier American-Canadian agreement; and of course, America and Mexico almost signed an FTA in the... 1870s?

Beyond that, there are possibilities for a French led monetary union in the 19th fcentury under Napoleon III. HRmm.
 
Beyond that, there are possibilities for a French led monetary union in the 19th fcentury under Napoleon III. HRmm.

Well, there's always the LMU (Latin Monetary Union), which had a whole bunch of currencies lined up with the franc, via official precious metals content. It was actually started by Napoleon III, and lasted until 1927. The US and UK both looked at joining it officially, but neither did. The UK obviously because of the pound, the US was pretty close--some of our coins were actually LMU-compatible--but never did. The US joining is relatviely easy to butterfly, the UK doing so officially is probably ASB unless practically everyone else in the world is on it, though they might unofficially adjust the metals content a little bit so that the pound = 25 francs.

I'm not sure on anything else, though. FTAA? Some move to form an EEC-type organization in Africa with the end of colonialism? (The latter, so far as I know, was never even floated, but maybe?...) Maybe an EEC-type org to go with ASEAN?
 
If you change things in Japan to keep Taisho era democracy in place and make Japans actions more Human the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere would likely turn into a unified economy, which of course would itself likely make Asia the dominant force on Earth and cause things like the EU and Eurozone to be created alot earlier.
 
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