Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 that 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.
Trade Review'Limits to Free Trade
ranges over a wide diversity of relevant issues ranging from international agreements, to regional trade policies, to import trade barriers, to movements for trade reforms. Informed, informative, and strongly recommended for academic library reference and resource collections, Limits to Free Trade
is a model of detailed and articulate scholarship.' -- The Midwest Book Review
Table of ContentsContents: 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
