LIMITS TO FREE TRADE: NON-TARIFF BARRIERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, JAPAN AND UNITED STATES

This book explores the growing list of non-tariff trade barriers raised by the US, EU and Japan and assesses the prospects for significant trade liberalization. The author examines the liability of global free trade through a review of the complaints these three countries raised about each other over a five-year period. He concludes that free trade may be increasingly hampered as barriers are created more rapidly than can be resolved, and that the prospects for significantly strengthening safeguards are limited. These issues are analyzed in the contexts of the major WTO trade agreements and the political economy of decision-making in the US, EU and Japan.

CONTENTS

List of tables
Abbreviations

1. Dilemmas of free trade
2. International agreements
3. Background to trade policy in the US
4. Issues concerning US trade practices
5. Background to trade policy in the European Union
6. Issues concerning EU trade practices
7. Background to trade policy in Japan
8. Issues concerning Japanese trade practices
9. A comparative perspective
10. Prospects for reform

Index

Páginas : 214
Peso : 2 mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera.
Año de Publicación : 2010 .
ISBN : 978-1847202475
Editorial : Edward Elgar Publishin
Autor : Edward Elgar

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