Trade Policies towards Developing Countries

by Akira Hirata (Editor), Ippei Yamazawa (Editor)

Overview

The 1970s and 1980s saw a radical expansion of manufacturing from developing countries, triggering off a new type of trade conflict in world trade. The response of industrial countreis has been multi-fold: ranging from protection in sensitive industries to preferences. This book takes sk, and evaluates the trade policy measures of, Japan, US and EC, towards developing countries, with a realistic, ‘non-dependency' approach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349229840
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Edition description:	1st ed. 1993
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: JAPAN'S TRADE POLICIES TOWARDS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - Japan's Trade Imbalance and Policy Response to it; I.Yamazawa & A.Hirata - Recent Developments in Japanese Imports from Developing Countries; S.Urata, K.Yokota, T.Nakakita & H.Kajiwara - General Measures Towards Import Promotion in Japan; K.Onoda - Japan's Import Barriers: Agriculture and Distribution; A.Hirata, H.Kohama, S.Urata & K.Yokota - Trade Measures Affecting Developing Countries; I.Yamazawa, K.Onoda & H.Kohama - Japan's Trade Policies and Developing Countries; I.Yamazawa & A.Hirata - PART 2: US TRADE POLICY TOWARDS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - The Force of the Economic Winds; S.K.Tucker - US Agricultural Policies; S.K.Tucker - US Textile Trade Policy and the Proliferation of Managed Trade; S.K.Tucker - Import Promotion: Preferential Arrangements; S.K.Tucker - Export Promotion: Market Access, Credits and Aid; S.K.Tucker - New Trade Issues; S.K.Tucker - Trade Policy for the New World Economy; S.K.Tucker - PART 3: EUROPEAN TRADE POLICIES TOWARDS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - Structural Change and Foreign Trade in the EC; J.P.Agarwal - EC Protectionism Against Developing Countries: General Tariff and Non-Tariff Trade Barriers; U.Hiemenz - EC Common Agricultural Policies and the Impact on Developing Countries' Exports; J-V.Schrader - Trade Preferences for Developing Countries in Processed Goods; V.Stuven - MFA and Article 115: Two Complementary EC Non-Tariff Barriers; D.Spinanger - The EC Single Market and its Effects on Developing Countries; R.J.Langhammer - European Trade and Developing Countries; U.Hiemenz - Index