Efforts to establish multilateral rules -- The Uruguay Round Agreement on rules of origin: the harmonization work programme of non-preferential rules of origin -- Phytosanitary measures (SPS) -- Preferential rules of origin -- The economics of rules of origin -- Drafting rules of origin in...

Efforts to establish multilateral rules -- The Uruguay Round Agreement on rules of origin: the harmonization work programme of non-preferential rules of origin -- Phytosanitary measures (SPS) -- Preferential rules of origin -- The economics of rules of origin -- Drafting rules of origin in...

The purpose of this article is to explain why Japan, with its food self-sufficiency rate at 40%, is at risk from severe tariff reductions and why it should be accorded special dispensations in WTO agreements on agriculture. The main issue evaluated is whether substantial net food importing...

This book reprints 18 essays selected from almost 30 years of work by the author as a high level official at the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the US Treasury Department and the World Bank. These essays report some of the core analytical thinking behind positions taken by these...

This indispensable volume brings together the key contributions to the academic literature on the subject of the political economy of trade policy. Topics covered include unilateral and multilateral trade policies, international trade agreements and administered protection. In their...