Early this year the US Administration made reference to "a marked improvement in the relations between the EC and the USA over the period of the last three years" - an astonishing statement in the light of the mounting non-tariff obstacles to trade between the EC and the USA.

Over the past three decades the non-tariff barriers to trade have grown in importance inversely to the import duties which have been lowered under GATT auspices. In the current GATT negotiations - the Tokyo round in which the contracting parties have been at work since the autumn of 1973 to...

In the channels literature, research involving behavioural constructs is extensive. However, there have been persistent calls for more comprehensive models to explain channel phenomena (Anderson and Narus 1984; Anderson and Narus 1990; Gattorna 1978, Stern and Reve 1980) particularly where all construct...

Why are British bank branches run so differently—and often much less efficiently—than their international counterparts? Why is it that it has been nearly ten years since the last major innovation in that area? Banking expert David Cavell takes a hard look at the present situation, and argues...